Thought control is un-American

So is intimidation and bullying.

All the history about Galileo being persecuted by the Catholic Church for believing the earth orbits around the sun I always thought was about the Church at the time. Thanks to today’s times recreating this atmosphere, the problem seems more human in nature, not just a Catholic Church nature.

Too many things stick out that leads so many to believe this is going on, much to the detriment of our American culture. We may have escaped the Old World, but it seems we have not escaped humanity.

McCarthyism was a sad state in our American history after WWII, and died a natural political death as it should have. Hollywood blacklisting was the normal history we heard and still hear about. Yet the same is happening today, albeit in the opposite direction. There is still a blacklisting process going on that is politics based, and it is immoral, wrong, and another example of modern thought control. Such much for idealism and multicultural exposure to the masses. Now, Hollywood investors can spend and support any cause they want to, but so can we spenders who can buy or reject the product, which is what seems to be going on these days. Eventually, there will be a tipping point much like the Pentagon lawyer that ended McCarthy’s time, but that still has not happened. But America will make it happen sometime since intimidation and bullying are so un-American.

American academia seems infected by the same disease. Too many academics in positions of influence seem focused on other than the primary mission, the education of our children we send them and pay for. Now many professors have not lost sight, but like the Church of Galileo’s time, it is obvious too many more have lost sight of the main mission. It sure seems many are using their immunity vis-à-vis tenure to change the mission, advance their political opinions, change society, and most alarming to many, indoctrinate our children we send them and pay for. While it may be time for something like government intervention such as a national inspector general for academics, as one opposed to more government, it seems smarter to hold the present governing bodies to their standards, and also let the present academic dinosaurs die off. Most of us have been exposed to kissing tail to survive, and often get ahead. Graduate students understand this very well. And our kids are also exposed to this academic environment, and parents get the result. Why send your kids to college if you can teach this at home through parental means and as compared to the collegiate intimidation and bullying means? A college education is not what it used to be. So many parents have already figured this out, and there are better ways to get kids educated to make a living and support a family. And they are not intimidators and bullies, just parents.

Somehow American media has evolved to be some kind of loyal opposition. How is still worthy of study. All Americans can live with this since it makes us better informed. But too many in the media have crossed the line to intimidation and bullying. Ideas like “fake but true”, academic ideas taught like mixing facts with opinions to gain attention, or just plain reporting opinions as facts via all means are a recent phenomenon. Along the way laziness into investigative reporting is rearing its head. Many Americans note all this, as present business plans exploit the gap between facts, opinions, intimidation, bullying, and poor reporting. Inheritors from the Old Guard have frittered away all passed on to them. One wonders what Galileo would have said about this, intimidated and bullied as he was.