Commentary
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell
For more than a century of socialist cultural advance, man’s capacity for independent thought and free expression has been in a state of precipitous decline.
From state radio and TV stations to the internet, almost all modern innovations in communication have been employed to control, rather than liberate, individual human expression.
More than 60 years ago, Frankfurt School Marxists like Herbert Marcuse brought powerful intellectual campaigns against democratic capitalism to the shores of North America.
From beachheads at various American universities, Marcuse deployed deceptive post-modern theories against what he referred to as Western “repressive tolerance.” He argued that, because of the injustice in Western society, freedom of expression and tolerance for differing viewpoints amounts to social oppression….