In recent days, I have been highlighting statements and events here that show not only a movement towards madness, but also radicalization within sharply defined opinion bubbles. The news director of a major Czech television station refers to Ronald Reagan as a man with a hippie mentality. In his view, anyone who does not aspire to escalate as quickly as possible to a nuclear apocalypse has a hippie mentality.
The High Court in Prague, for its part, describes as Putin’s helper anyone who believes that a normal family consists of a man and a woman, or their children. And, to be fair, we can add those opposition groups who label as sheep anyone who does not believe that the 9/11 attacks were not only a stage-managed performance, but the directors added the completely unnecessary firing an extra house to give a secret signal to the conspiracy theorists.
Controversy and differing opinions have always existed, but it is absolutely unthinkable, that a generation ago he would have been labeled as an aide to a hostile power by someone opposed to sex before marriage. Rationality is lost as common ground. There is no type of argumentation and litigation that is acceptable to all. And probably the parties to the conflict don’t even know that there could be such a thing. Specialists in institutions somewhere know. and they’d rather not stick their noses out and get licked.
We’re going back to the dark days before the Enlightenment.