Tag Archives: intolerance

  As technocracy and transhumanism have risen to the fore, they have brought with them their own form of science — “scientism” — which is basically the religion of science. In other words, it’s a belief even in the absence of evidence, or in the face of contrary evidence, and this is a very serious problem. The clearest problem with …

  Many have been shocked to see the Left’s merciless repression of free speech for those who have a world view that is not in line with the current socialist politically correct narrative. But they should not be so surprised. Socialist hatred of Free Speech: Karl Marx (1818-1883) clearly defined socialism and communism as ideologies that precisely aim at destroying …

  Plurality is now the enemy: The term “one-way tolerance” perfectly describes the situation where only one party is required to be tolerant while the other fails to show mutual respect. The term “tolerance” then loses its meaning and becomes a political and ideological tool to silence opposition. The words of C. S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters sum it …

  As the mainstream media shuts down diversity of opinion, pulling the “Fake News” card on anyone who does not see the world from the leftwing CNN angle, many feel that the West is turning into a Soviet Union. It has long been worrying that over 90 % of the US media is owned by only 6 corporations, as it …

  As we watch how intolerance, repression of diversity and totalitarianism is growing yet again in the West, the German philosopher, Hannah Arendt is worth revisiting. She is considered one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century and spent many years examining how it was possible for a modern, democratic state such as pre-World War II Germany, …

  Herland Report: Because perception is inherently fallible, logic is duped by empirical evidence. Our five senses are notoriously weak and prone to error. Hundreds of optical illusions are readily available to prove the point. Every scientific error had the support of logic. In short, perception itself is woefully inadequate to assess reality, writes poet, playwriter and essayist, William Hamnet …

  As totalitarianism and a remarkable intolerance of diversity of opinion is implemented in the United States, the memories of the repressive atheist Soviet system and its Gulag prisons are worth revisiting. The Christian thinker, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate 1970, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn spoke vividly about the results of the atheist experiment in the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn is referred to …

  Herland Report: John Locke Liberalism: At this point in history, the West is leaving behind its belief in classical, traditional values and the nation state, merging private corporate power with state funds in a liberal approach to accomplish the fourth industrial revolution. So we are told. But is the attempt to forge a new world order where the billionaires …

  Herland Report: How did the anti-history Cancel Culture movement get so well established that Marxism now is on the verge of taking over the United States’ political system? How did we get to where a handful of superrich socialist big tech billionaires reportedly steer the USA away from the values that founded the Republic, with full propaganda control and …

  The current lack of moral strength worry many of the leading philosophers in the West.  Among them, the German philosopher who is Europe’s arguably most influential social scientist, atheist Jürgen Habermas. At one point, Habermas dramatically changed his view on the role of religion, stating that his previous assumption of its irrelevance in secular nations was wrong. In his …