Modularity is the key

The latest appeal from Brownstone:

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It became clear in 2020 and following that a major purge was on. It hit academia, media, government, and industry. The vaccine mandates helped cull the dissenters from many institutions. Censorship also worked wonders. The demonization of the resistance was ferocious. It remains so, which is why so much of intellectual life today feels throttled and fearful.

The purge continues to this day, which raises a serious problem. If the independent minds do not have a home and support, a place of refuge and a community, how can they have a role in shaping change for the future? The point of such suppressions is to create what Jay Bhattacharya calls “the illusion of consensus.” To push back on that requires moral determination, vision, and resources.

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The purge in Big Science is still going on because Big Science knows how to get shit done.

Censorship is normal and necessary within each company or university or organization.

Purging is also normal and necessary. If you’re TRYING TO GET SHIT DONE you can’t afford to have enemy agents in the group.

Platforms are an entirely different proposition. Before NSA conflated the two levels with its web, this distinction was clearer.

Freedom of the press does NOT mean that each newspaper must carry everything. Freedom of the press means that each newspaper is free to edit and censor and purge as much as it wants.

For newspapers and magazines and books, the platform is the postal system and the streets that carry traffic to offices and stores. The postal system and streets are obviously common carriers. They need to be insensitive to the content of the traffic.

The postal system, and its later variants like telegraphs and telephones, isn’t naturally insensitive like streets. It was LEGALLY REQUIRED to be insensitive like streets, in order to insure that publications and groups of people are FREE TO DO THEIR OWN CENSORING. The NSA web broke out of this LEGAL REQUIREMENT because NSA needed to have a fully censored street system.

Some ‘freedom-loving’ groups miss this distinction between individuals and platforms. They insist on letting every side write or speak for their group or magazine. The enemy (Deepstate) will ALWAYS take advantage of this improper freedom INSIDE a publication. Soon Deepstate will be the only voice, because Deepstate DOES UNDERSTAND the necessity of purging and censoring.

When the alleged “free” Univ of Austin started up, it was obviously contaminated from the start. Its trustees and advisors included several committed Deepstaters like Dawkins and Summers, who had been fakely “canceled” from their earlier positions in order to work as moles.

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MODULARITY is the key.

Each animal and plant has cell walls and immune systems to eject foreign microbes and bad food. Each nation has border controls to halt foreign contamination. Each business has doors and security and HR to halt foreign contamination. Each publication has an editor to censor foreign contamination.

The common carrier, soil for plants, ocean or air for most animals, streets and post offices for businesses, must be insensitive and “free”.

If you think your publication has a duty to be a common carrier, you WILL be weakened and killed by malign Deepstate microbes.

Back to the original point of academia and science… You don’t need free debate within each university or department. In fact you can’t afford free debate within one institution. We do need SEPARATE universities or separate departments with SEPARATE internal goals and viewpoints. The conflator in this realm is boards of accreditation, which always serve Deepstate. Boards require orthodoxy among all universities, thus destroying modularity in the same way that the NSA web destroys modularity for its separate publications and businesses. When I saw that UATX was trying for accreditation, I knew it wasn’t serious. Some religious universities have intentionally stayed away from boards, making their degrees less “prestigious” but more meaningful.

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Later: The Supremes decided correctly by the “constitution”. Facebook and Twitter are technically publishers, not platforms, so by the existing “laws” they are correctly free to censor as much as they want, for any reason at all including government pressure. This problem needs to be resolved by changing Section 230, not by counteracting the “constitution”. Congress needs to end its 30 year vacation and start LEGISLATING. I’m not holding my breath.