Communism, fascism, Nazism are one and the same - they are all forms of TOTALITARIAN government. Right and left wings clasp hands behind the back.
Don't fall into the right/left trap. It's totalitarianism we are fighting.
Oldfag here.
Before the internet we read a lot and used libraries. Imo we were less susceptible to being "tossed about by every wind of doctrine" as the Bible puts it because we were firmly grounded in objective truth which equates to reality. These days, people have been brainwashed into believing that truth is relative and that it is possible to have one's own truth. The effect of this has been to detach people from reality, where reality is ACTUAL existence and ACTUAL events not one's personal perception.
Very good article by Saker that touches on this subject, written in 2015. Things have only got worse since then.
https:// thesaker.is/a-society-of-sexually-frustrated-pinocchios/
Here's an excerpt.
"Almost from day one, the early western civilization began by, shall we say, take liberties with the truth, which it could bend, adapt, massage and repackage to serve the ideological agenda of the day. It was not quite the full-blown and unapologetic relativism of the 19th century yet, but it was an important first step. With “principles” such as the end justifies the means and the wholesale violation of the Ten Commandants all “for the greater glory of God” the western civilization got cozy with the idea that there was no real, objective truth, only the subjective perception or even representation each person might have thereof. Fast forward another 10 centuries or so and we end up with the modern “Gayropa” (as Europe is now often referred to in Russia): not only has God been declared ‘dead’ and all notions of right and wrong dismissed as “cultural”, but even objective reality has now been rendered contingent upon political expediency and ideological imperatives.
Here is how Orwell defined “doublethink” in his book 1984:
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it (…) To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality“
The necessary corollary from this state of mind is that only appearances matter, no reality. This is how you end up with a society of sexually frustrated Pinocchios desperately trying to look respectable and relevant."