“Without censorship in the West, fashionable trends of thought are fastidiously separated from those that are not fashionable, and the latter, without ever being forbidden, have little chance of finding their way . . . ”
—Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Address
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We all know that there are truths that are almost never stated publicly in the U.S.—truths that media, politicians, and “intelligentsia” pretend do not exist. Astute observers, Tocqueville and Solzhenitsyn among others, have noted that in “American democracy” public discourse tends to group-think and is neglectful or hostile to ideas lacking group-think respectability.
Some of these truths are things that absolutely everybody knows but may not be mentioned without penalty. Others have been so long buried under complacent or expedient denial that much effort is required to discern them.
Here are a few of my almost forbidden thoughts. Doubtless you will have some of your own.
Heredity has as much or more control over our individual fates as environment; i.e., intelligent children tend to come from intelligent parents.Massachusetts, which has vaunted its moral superiority for almost four centuries, is the most corrupt state of the Union—even more so than Nevada or Loosiana.
“Capitalism” in the U.S. does http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1325 free enterprise. It means government subsidy and protection of Big Business.
Abraham Lincoln was a very good politician, but he was no statesman. He was not a Christian, nor was he always benevolent and sincere.
Black people commit more than their fair share of crimes—especially crimes of violence and corruption in public office.
Since the mid-20th century, American literature of high quality has been mostly the product of Southern writers.
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