{"id":4642,"date":"2018-03-31T05:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T05:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/on-being-prudent-in-a-post-consensus-no-trust-society\/"},"modified":"2018-03-31T05:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T05:40:18","slug":"on-being-prudent-in-a-post-consensus-no-trust-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/on-being-prudent-in-a-post-consensus-no-trust-society\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Prudent in a Post-Consensus, No-Trust Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

The young especially need to be very careful about what they say and to whom they say it.  The U. S. is becoming the S. U. To be on the safe side, never associate with leftists. (This is good advice even for leftists since they are famous for turning on their own for the 'sin' of not being sufficiently left.) Practice the political equivalent of divorce to the extent that it is possible. If you must associate with leftists, limit your contact with them and keep your mouth shut. Rod Dreher has some advice for you:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I told the professor that I try never to talk about anything controversial in personal company unless I\u2019m sure that everyone around me already agrees with me. It\u2019s not simply that I don\u2019t want to get into it with a screaming SJW who wants to have it out with me at a cocktail party because I don\u2019t share her view of some political issue. That\u2019s part of it, but I am a public figure, and say lots of controversial things in this space. I try to leave work here on the blog, and not take it into private life. With me, it\u2019s more the case that I don\u2019t want to say something controversial that I wouldn\u2019t say on the blog, and have someone overhear it, send it out on social media, and ruin me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t think offhand what kind of remark that might be, but these days, who knows? The word the professor in last night\u2019s conversation used was completely ordinary, and not used by him in a racial context. But in our emotivist world, the student felt that it was racist, so the professor had to face something he never should have had to face.<\/span><\/p>\n

So now you have a professor who has to see students as potential destroyers of his career on spurious grounds. You have to go to cocktail parties and social gatherings being very conscious of what you say and don\u2019t say, because some angry person might put it on social media. Everybody is potentially working for the secret police.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not being as hyperbolic with that remark as you think. When I was in Hungary recently, my friend A. told me that her country still hadn\u2019t recovered the social capital plundered by the communists. That is, Hungarians \u2014 like everyone living under communism \u2014 had to learn not to trust anybody. You truly didn\u2019t know who was a secret police information. An ill-considered word could cost you your job. A thoughtless joke overheard by the wrong set of ears could land you in prison. We don\u2019t have a totalitarian state here, but we are creating that kind of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

"But aren't you big on civil courage<\/a>?"<\/span><\/p>\n

I am; but I cannot in good conscience urge it on the young and naive. It is easy for me to display a modicum of civil courage: I've made mine. But if you are trying to find a foothold, and especially if you have dependents, be careful. Once you establish yourself you will be a position to punch back effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, as Rod would say, read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The young especially need to be very careful about what they say and to whom they say it.  The U. S. is becoming the S. U. To be on the safe side, never associate with leftists. (This is good advice even for leftists since they are famous for turning on their own for the 'sin' … Continue reading “On Being Prudent in a Post-Consensus, No-Trust Society”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,231,530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-free-speech","category-prudence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}