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The other day, I was chatting with some friends about what to do about America’s new, alien mask culture: How can we drive it from our country, why it hasn’t been rejected yet, and what responsibility each of us bears for transforming this mere hope into a reality.
At one point, a friend shared this short clip of Jordan Peterson. How would he answer the question, “Whose fault is it that the safety-above-all-else mask culture persists?”
Peterson does not lay the blame on Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci, the legacy media, the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, or the Chinese Communist Party. His answer?
It’s your fault.
I admit I was a little bit taken aback by this, even though I’ve listened to Peterson ever since he burst onto the scene in 2016 by cooly talking sense to irrational social justice warriors at the University of Toronto. I think that’s probably because, while his “rules for life” always seemed correct in the abstract, it also seemed to me that opportunities to live them out would be rare, perhaps even something for others to do. But now, I no longer think that—not when the once-clownish totalitarians, confined to campus safe spaces and given Play-Doh and dogs to pet because of “stress,” are steering my country into dangerous waters.
But even so, can it really be my responsibility to end this? Am I really obligated to be a kind of Solzhenitsyn, to stand up, alone (if that’s how the cookie crumbles), against officialdom’s many reigning institutional power centers, and flip them the bird, bare-faced?
I think yes and no. Peterson is certainly on to something. We are in desperate need of more courage from ordinary people. In the past, I’ve criticized what I call “gilded cowardice”—the dressing up of one’s lack of courage in the garb of “prudence” so as to rationalize one’s failure ever to take a stand for or against anything when even the slightest personal cost might result. That pathetic practice has to end. And there is a real sense in which this kind of dehumanizing, pointless regime can only exist (and expand) to the extent that we the people allow it.
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Risks (and Rewards) of Resistance
But there is, at the same time, a nontrivial case to be made that for any mere individual to stand up to “Mask America” amounts to a kind of pointless self-destruction, a martyrdom complete with pain, humiliation, fear, and negative consequences but bereft of a (heavenly) reward. Given this is the case, we need leaders to speak to, shape, and mobilize public opinion so that we can move toward this maskless destination.
Angelo Codevilla has often made this point:
[D]uring the Occupation in the 1940s, Charles de Gaulle warned the people against individual acts of resistance. This is something I’ve pointed out before: Don’t do these things individually [in this case, de-mask at Walmart or wherever], do them only as part of a larger national political enterprise led by . . . well, at that time, Charles de Gaulle.
There is a tension here, though Peterson and Codevilla make good arguments for their respective positions. How do we resolve it? What should we who believe that the dangerous safety-ism represented by this new “wear yer damn mask!” culture must go?
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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