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July 3, 2018
"Fake books" - is that next?
In the wake of Donald Trumps’ propaganda campaign against free press, popularizing the meme, “fake news” as a means of discrediting any media which has exposed his scandalous background and dictatorial Administration, “fake books” might be next.
According to numerous analyses of past disastrous dictatorships, one of the very early signs of a dictator is an attack on free press and free expression. Such "leaders" uniformly negate free speech out of terror that they will be exposed for who they are and that the media or writers in other arenas, will help sway public opinion against them.
Now that “fake news” has been adopted in other lands, a term now being casually used by other “leaders” who simply want to shut down any opposition by entering reasonable doubt into the equation, it is likely that authors and writers will be next on the target list.
It sounds extreme, of course, to think that in this day and age, anyone would censor free speech and media, but in the past several years, since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on NSA secret surveillance and intrusion of privacy rights nationally and abroad and was labelled a traitor to his country; and then Donald Trump with his insistence that the media should not have the right to criticize him, are we seeing the rise of the Third Reich again? A sort of Nazism where it becomes dangerous to speak out against the party line? Where one can be publically attacked and ridiculed, and even targetted as a traitor to the nation because one spoke the hard truths?
The day books and their writers, are labeled as "fake" is the day we must be prepared to act against the dictatorship and its supporters, because that is a line across which no democracy can exist - and already, that democracy is being seriously threatened today.
Article by author, Réal Laplaine
See official blog at: www.reallaplaine.comThe Deception People
According to numerous analyses of past disastrous dictatorships, one of the very early signs of a dictator is an attack on free press and free expression. Such "leaders" uniformly negate free speech out of terror that they will be exposed for who they are and that the media or writers in other arenas, will help sway public opinion against them.
Now that “fake news” has been adopted in other lands, a term now being casually used by other “leaders” who simply want to shut down any opposition by entering reasonable doubt into the equation, it is likely that authors and writers will be next on the target list.
It sounds extreme, of course, to think that in this day and age, anyone would censor free speech and media, but in the past several years, since Edward Snowden blew the whistle on NSA secret surveillance and intrusion of privacy rights nationally and abroad and was labelled a traitor to his country; and then Donald Trump with his insistence that the media should not have the right to criticize him, are we seeing the rise of the Third Reich again? A sort of Nazism where it becomes dangerous to speak out against the party line? Where one can be publically attacked and ridiculed, and even targetted as a traitor to the nation because one spoke the hard truths?
The day books and their writers, are labeled as "fake" is the day we must be prepared to act against the dictatorship and its supporters, because that is a line across which no democracy can exist - and already, that democracy is being seriously threatened today.
Article by author, Réal Laplaine
See official blog at: www.reallaplaine.comThe Deception People
June 21, 2018
Is reading dangerous?
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According to one study, reading catalyzes bouts of imagination and happiness – distracting the reader from “reality” and vaulting them into another world. The inherent danger, apparently, is that one loses touch and fantasizes about other realms.
Another study suggests that authors are part of a secret conspiracy designed to rock the proverbial boat with ideas and visions which offer alternative paradigms.
According to some “experts”, reading is dangerous as it unsettles established norms, and makes people question mediocrity. The conclusion offered is that those engaging in this activity do so at their own peril.
In the introduction to his American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828, Noah Webster warned that by permitting literacy to drop below the waterline, words could be redefined, so that concepts such as freedom could easily transition to something entirely different, for example “sacrificing some freedom for security”, using the very terms that regulate a democracy as tools of oppression against a population with a limited vocabulary.
Authors would unanimously agree that reading is healthy, and some might even face heinous accusations of outright heresy for suggesting that reading beats rifling through social media …
Article by author, Réal Laplaine
According to one study, reading catalyzes bouts of imagination and happiness – distracting the reader from “reality” and vaulting them into another world. The inherent danger, apparently, is that one loses touch and fantasizes about other realms.
Another study suggests that authors are part of a secret conspiracy designed to rock the proverbial boat with ideas and visions which offer alternative paradigms.
According to some “experts”, reading is dangerous as it unsettles established norms, and makes people question mediocrity. The conclusion offered is that those engaging in this activity do so at their own peril.
In the introduction to his American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828, Noah Webster warned that by permitting literacy to drop below the waterline, words could be redefined, so that concepts such as freedom could easily transition to something entirely different, for example “sacrificing some freedom for security”, using the very terms that regulate a democracy as tools of oppression against a population with a limited vocabulary.
Authors would unanimously agree that reading is healthy, and some might even face heinous accusations of outright heresy for suggesting that reading beats rifling through social media …
Article by author, Réal Laplaine
