An Outward Sign of an Inner Rot

Darrell Castle talks about freedom of speech and why that concept is no longer held in high esteem by the new culture. Transcription / Notes AN OUTWARD SIGN OF AN INNER ROT Hello this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday February 12, in the year 2021 and today I will be talking about freedom of speech, and why that concept is no longer held in high esteem by the new culture. The title of this Report comes from an interview with Doug Casey concerning the First Amendment. Doug believes that the devaluing of freedom of speech is a sign of the inner rot of our culture. In part, this Report will also delve into the mindset behind America’s growing trend toward cancel culture or blacklisting. The Castle Family is frozen into an Arctic prison today. This is probably mild compared to what some parts of the country are going through but for us it is very unusual and very unwelcome. It started raining ice two days ago but today it is just cold.  We had to work from home yesterday but today we are back at the office in good health and good spirits. The freedom of speech clause in the First Amendment was intended to be absolute as was the entire Bill of Rights and that view was upheld in past days by the Supreme Court. Today, however, thanks to the changing nature of our culture, and especially the oligarchs from Silicon Valley, the Freedom of Speech Clause and the entire Bill of Rights are no more than the symbols of a bygone, pretechnological age. The oligarchs are private companies and can ban anyone they want, but when they de-platform the president and many thousands of others it gets scary. Now even congress is in on the game by trying to ban former Trump staffers and even voters from writing or telling their story. The fact that 73 million people that we know of voted for Trump, but he isn’t allowed to communicate with them is a sign that something is seriously wrong, an inner rot as Doug Casey put it. Even before Trump was elected when it started to look like he might be nominated, the progressive world did not look at what was happening in America to determine what factors, what trends, what actions of theirs might have caused the American people to reject the establishment. No, for people who once argued that no absolute truth existed, they sure found some in a hurry. Absolute truth is contained within their paradigm, their word view and no other truth exists absolute or partial. Those people who voted for Trump, I suppose, were the deplorables of that great dissatisfied middle of America and just too ignorant to be considered. By the admission of its own editors the New York Times is published for coastal liberals and no one else so I suppose I appreciate their selling it to me. That gives me the benefit of all the news that’s fit to print. Its that news that the Times deems unfit to print that I must search for in other places. The Times’ version of the truth supports a conclusion that we have undergone a welding together of the ruling elites from the corporate and political worlds to the point where they are one and the same. Benito Mussolini was the first to spell out what he called fascism explicitly. He said that fascism would better be called corporatism or the uniting of the political and corporate worlds to work as one. Mussolini was not a Socialist so he didn’t believe the state should own the means of production just control and tax them just as we do in America today.  The fascism of the fusion between the state and business world is essentially the same today, but without the uniforms and slogans. The vast sums created by the corporations and the power of the politicians work together as one and together they understand and define absolute truth and will tolerate no other. Truth to them is whatever advances their own interests because that is the true intent of the fascist state. When the corporations of Silicon Valley collude with the politicians of Washington to de-platform opposing vie...