The Express Road to Serfdom

Serfs slaving for their Masters

BCF : Before the Wuhan virus I radically underestimated both the cohesion with which the leftist ideas operated in every sphere of our social and political life and their effectiveness in neutering dissent, both within and without their class.

I knew they were regnant but I thought we had time to marshall some form of organised resistance. I have now come to believe I was wrong. Until now we have only experienced political correctness in its authoritarian rather than totalitarian form. I have a strong intuition that is about to change very quickly.

I am almost wholly convinced that we will not have the capacity or the will to resist the Left when it chooses to deliver the coup de main to what remains of our liberties and our institutions. You might disagree with me, but I suspect you will not regard it as being as extravagant a prediction as the same one made a fortnight ago would have been. Am I being unfair to my compliant friends?

Have I, too, succumbed to this impalpable regulation of my thought but refused to recognise it?

No.

I look back at this article and ask myself why I wrote it. The answer I give is that I have re-assured myself that I have not yet forfeited that hold on who I am and who my forbears were nor on my Christian faith,and that gives me my bearings again.  That is important because these last weeks have been a time, not of dangerous medical emergency, but rather, of precipitous cultural decline.

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