Great speech by Neil Oliver

2 months ago
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"Tyrants of old like Henry VIII or Louis XIV, and then totalitarians like Stalin and Mao had aspirations limited at least to some extent by their reach. All the secret police and citizen snitches in the USSR could not quite reach into the minds of every citizen. By now the technology of the 21st century has overcome those limitations. Now those who crave total control of wealth, energy and food have the means at their disposal. Witness to the attitude of the World Economic Forum and the perpetitions in its thrall. Listen to the notion of you'll own nothing and be happy. And remember that collectivization under Stalin, under Mao in China was about abolishing private property, making it impossible for a middle class to aspire to, far less achieve any kind of independence from the state. By now the education of children has been all but captured too.
Infected wherever possible with the nonsense double-speak of critical race theory, gender studies, diversity, equality and inclusion. Always the claim is that such topics do not feature in the curriculum. But while the curriculum describes what is taught, what matters most is how it's taught. Conservative and Christian author and commentator Pete Hegseth has used the Greek word paideia to describe the enveloping atmosphere in which a child is taught, from which the child absorbs the abiding culture, just as the fish is enveloped by the water in which it swims and breathes.
The all-conquering nature of progressive culture has all but rendered our schools and our universities into places not of education but of indoctrination. The indoctrination is all about pushing the cultural forgetting, the forgetting of the national identity of before, driving the cultural dementia. It's in this way that education too has been centralized as never before.
And wisdom tells us that the pupils of today are the governments of tomorrow, brainwashed and ready to serve, and so perpetuate the ideology that indoctrinated them. Here's the thing, I miss the identity we used to have, the people we used to be, and I have not forgotten. I've not forgotten the thousands of years of history that got us here. I have not forgotten the good or the bad, horrors included.
I've not forgotten the history or the traditions or the Christianity that underpins what used to be called Christendom. I'll always remember."

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