Free Speech

 

Freedom of speech is infinite and absolute. This individual right applies to social communications no matter how false and evil the spoken or written words. It applies no matter how terrible the speaker, malicious the intent, vulnerable the target, or socially destructive the result. In a free society the only proper and allowable defenses against false and evil verbal expression is true and good expression, such as intellectual refutation and moral condemnation of the speech, along with economic boycott and social ostracism of the speaker. Fortunately, these counter-attacks are highly effective in preventing, defeating, and punishing bad speech.

Freedom of expression includes limitless amounts falsehoods, lies, abuse, slander, defamation, bigotry, hated, malevolence, betrayal, blasphemy, cowardice, treason, rebellion, revolution, sleaze, obscenity, stupidity, and depravity. In a good society these are all relatively harmless. But freedom of speech does not include (1) financial fraud, (2) verbal terrorism, or (3) incitement to riot and mayhem. This is because these are really actions and not verbal communications. These dishonest, terrifying, or violent “words” are, in fact, criminal behavior, namely: (1) theft, (2) deliberately, fraudulently panicking others to cause destruction of people and property, and (3) implicitly ordering others to destroy people and property. Despite primitive appearances and surface impressions, such “speech” and behavior constitutes physical aggression and the initiation of force against innocent people or their property.

True Bigotry

 

If you criticize a single black, Hispanic, woman, gay, Moslem, or foreigner today, in this post-1960s era, this is automatically considered an attack upon all of them. If you dare to say something negative about some genuinely-low black, Hispanic, woman, gay, Moslem, or foreigner, somewhere somehow somewhen, then you are instantly labeled a bigot and monster by the best-educated and most virtuous intellectual leaders in our nitwit, dirtbag, Dark Age.

It doesn't matter how relevant, true, and just your criticisms are; nor how tolerant, good, and noble a person you are; nor how virtuous, innocent, and pure the motivations for your criticism. You still get passionately and furiously condemned as a racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamophobe, xenophobe, or whatever.

And our irrational, illiberal, lamebrain, slimeball society – even in the rather hopeful, anti-D.E.I. Trump era – is openly and defiantly proud of the injustice and rottenness of its public pronouncements and judgments here. When it comes to modern reverse-bigotry, our world today is cruel and evil deliberately.

Even worse, most people today still ostentatiously and obnoxiously pat themselves on the back for their supposed willingness and ability to crush the Klan, or Hitler, or whatever, even tho traditional, pre-1960s bigotry against "minorities" (who make up the vast majority) was thoroughly defeated generations ago. Politically correct, multicultural, diverse, sensitive, inclusive, Woke folks are the new bigots, and the only real ones still around. It's no exaggeration to say that today's smug, pompous, assertive, confident, overweening, vicious, malevolent vermin are in many respects even worse than old-style Ku Klux Klansmen and Hitler worshipers.

The modern-world contingent of flamboyant "bigotry" and "hate" fighters isn't so much depraved and loathsome as it is contemptible, disgusting, laughable, and absurd.

Fully Rounded Man

 

Rev. Minot Savage (1841-1918) may be distinctly religious. But he’s also distinctly wise. And he’s still a liberal intellectual. Here’s an excerpt from his first book, Christianity -- The Science of Manhood (1873, p. 9-16):

"Body, mind, heart, spirit, -- we have found that these all are factors of man as he actually exists. Or, to give it such expression as no one can deny, man sustains physical, mental, affectional, and [spiritual] relations. The faculties which make up his fitness for these relations constitute him what he is. But unless rightly combined and proportioned, they cannot make a true manhood, any more than roots and trunk and boughs and leaves make a tree, when the roots are in the air, and one of the boughs is larger than the trunk. Relation and proportion have as much to do with making men, as do the essential elements themselves...

"The true manhood then is not found in the dominion of any one of these to the ignoring or degrading of another. It is in the right development and ranking of them all. Man should be a pyramid, having his body for the base, and his [spiritual] faculty for the apex, with heart and brain between.

"The body must be governed by the reason. The reason also must check and guide the action of heart and spirit, though they both are superior to it in their highest range and uses. A whole body, a clear, strong, quick intellect, a heart that loves the best, and an upward looking of the whole being to the absolute right and true, -- these make a man all that it is possible for him to become."

New Space Probes

 

It's long past time for humans to launch new interstellar space probes. The American government's NASA space company launched Voyager 2 in August, 1977; and Voyager 1 in September, 1977. Voyager 2 travels at about 9.6 miles per second and is 12.9 million miles away; Voyager 1 travels at about 10.6 miles per second, and is 15.5 million miles out. Both are an awesome seven to eight times further away from the sun than the last planet Uranus, which is 1.7 million miles distant from Earth. Both crafts still partially function, which is impressive. But both use grossly out-of-date, 48-year-old technology!

New private spaceships would have vastly superior cameras and sensing equipment to gather far more knowledge of the distant planets, Kuiper Belt, and outer space. And these probes could travel at at least three times the Voyager speeds, at over 30 miles per second, by using gravity assist from Jupiter. NASA's 2018 Parker Solar Probe, using gravity assist from the sun (getting within a dangerous 3.8 million miles), travels at a stunning 110 miles per second; so possibly new Voyager-type space exploration craft could get close to that. SpaceX, Firefly Aerospace, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, Sierra Space, and Intuitive Machines – all successful capitalist space companies based in America – need to get to work! Since this would largely be a quest for general knowledge, possibly several of these private companies could collaborate. By firing the public imagination, it might be easy for them to get funding from other large corporations and the general public for this magnifcent venture!