Tea at Trianon: The Scientific Establishment Is Turning 'Science' Into a Dogmatic Tool of Oppression

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, September 23, 2024

The Scientific Establishment Is Turning 'Science' Into a Dogmatic Tool of Oppression

From The Rand Paul Review:

Relativism—the denial of objective truth—is the weapon of choice for totalitarians of all ilks—individuals, groups, and governments. When adopting a relativist stance, individuals become gods in their own universe. They can identify as whatever they want—a cat, dog, or wombat—because their feelings trump objective facts. The fact that every cell in the human body has sex chromosomes won’t stop the relativist boy who feels like a girl from claiming that he is, in fact, a girl. The boy ignores the objective fact that he would have to change every cell in his body for it to be true.
At the group level, radical relativists deny reality so they can claim that there was no holocaust or that the earth is flat. Historical facts and scientific scrutiny are anathema to them. At the governmental level, relativism is used to forward progressive ideology by silencing logic and banishing objectivity. For a government to gain total control of its people, it must first censor those narratives that do not agree with its own, even those based on scientific analysis and rigorous proof.
Relativism does not advocate a plurality of truths, though relativists claim it does. Instead, it seeks to eliminate all perspectives of reality except the one an individual, group, or government adheres to. The relativist is not inclusive but exclusive to the extreme. Of the three—individual, group, and governmental—the governmental is the most dangerous. Governments with totalitarian tendencies promote individual and group relativism to sow confusion. When the time is ripe, they step in and take over. When that happens, the government’s narrative is the only one that counts. (Read more.)