"It seems to me that to organize on the basis of feeding people or righting social injustice and all that is very valuable. But to rally people around the idea of modernism, modernity, or something is simply silly. I mean, I don't know what kind of a cause that is, to be up to date. I think it ultimately leads to fashion and snobbery and I'm against it."
Jack Levine: January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010
LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
We Will Adapt Giving Up Our Most Treasured Slogans and Habits Or Democracy Is Done For
I have become increasingly alarmed at how the habits of Constitutional law and culture of the "First Amendment" kind have left us totally open to attack using lies, slander, libel and coordinated neo-Nazi-fascist-post-Marxist attacks. Democracy cannot live with allowing the liberties to media, social media, individuals to do what computers and the internet and media consolidation has made possible. We will either find a way to accommodate the right of the media to tell the truth to that new reality or the granted freedom to lie with impunity will destroy that right to tell the truth along with all of the other necessary components of egalitarian democracy. This piece from Chris Hays show is especially alarming, showing how the neo-Nazi Gorka has hold of the mind of the mentally deficient media-created Trump, which controls our news media which doesn't change its habits to meet that reality.
Our legal and cultural habits have not really even accommodated themselves to the mid-20th century media, the Supreme Court and other precedents set then have already brought us to this crisis made even worse by the internet. We will either change those habits and laws drastically to meet the dangers to democracy or democracy is finished. And it can't be done while maintaining those free-speech-free-press absolutist postures because those are what got us here.
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