As we all know, the accelerating edge of cultural evolution is steered and sharpened at our nation’s institutes of higher learning. Long gone is the cultural Pleistocene of my youth, when one could simply live and think according to the principles, customs, precepts, guidelines, mores, and traditions our parents learned as children, and passed along to us in turn; now we must attend carefully to the Ministry of Thought’s daily rejiggering of what is and isn’t sayable and thinkable — and we must take note, in particular, of what all of us today (often in diametric contrast to the day just past) shall believe to be true. Those who shirk this quotidian duty, and carelessly express in public last week’s universally accepted truths, run a considerable, perhaps existential, risk: not only to their own livelihood and liberty, but also to those around them who might be exposed to injurious notions and forbidden opinions.
With this in mind, we have a recent report from Thomas Bertonneau of a new protective technology intended to safeguard the innocent from memetic trauma. Read it here.
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What a superb piece of parody!