Idaho Speaks

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Transcript

What price do we pay when we lie?  We each understand that sometimes a “little white lie” can save much needless complication.  In fact, a “little white lie“ of omission can prevent hurt feelings by simply not saying critical things.

Aren’t these sort of lies the grease that lubricate relationships?  Who really wants to hear what we believe anyway?  Isn’t it often just easier to evade a difficult reality by embellishing it?

The temptation to alter one’s witness to serve convenience is addictive.  Who wants to be that tedious martinet who disrupts harmony by insisting on their own discordant divisiveness?  Only a zealot would willingly disturb social concord; only someone whose inner sensibilities mattered more to them than getting along with others.

Lies can be the required entry fee to be allowed to enter into some form of desirable exclusivity.  In business and when courting, who hasn’t feigned interest in something to build a bridge with another?

No human being can claim a perfect record of pure integrity to the truth.  All of us are guilty, at some time, of lying as an act of commission or omission.

Recognizing our own fallibility is honest, but muting our consciences to easily tell lies is disastrous.  Anyone not in the habit of standing up for their perception of the truth will be easily bowled over by the powerful and the passionate, even when they lie.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, famously extolled the power of “The Big Lie”.  He claimed that even the most outlandish of lies would be accepted as being at least plausible by a critical mass of any civil population.  All that was necessary to gull the masses was a willingness to proclaim the untruth loudly, frequently, and with a shameless boldness.

Uncertain souls assume that even the most ludicrous claims being debated must have some absolute validity.  Otherwise, why would the powerful and wise among us take such a notion seriously enough to discuss it?  Faced with their own fragile befuddlement, many find it expedient to join in with the discussion and perhaps even conclude that that which had seemed ridiculous is correct.

One of the only intellectually honest believers in Communism to have ever lived, George Orwell, rightly claimed that, “Freedom is the ability to say that 2+2=4”.  He saw that, without the freedom to bear genuine witness to life and truth, liberty was impossible.

This is why Orwell, at great personal cost, ultimately rejected all forms of existent Communism.  All Red regimes everywhere eagerly murder any individual foolish enough to express anything at variance with the ever-changing Party Line.

This is why the U. S. Constitution makes an unfettered freedom of expression the very First Amendment to our Bill of Rights: there is no life worth living where one is compelled to lie by an all-powerful government.

However, both Goebbels and Orwell only alluded to the most subtle danger posed to our freedom by our willingness to expediently lie.

All philosophies and religions require that certain fundamental assumptions be taken on faith.  The power of faith is unquantifiable.

From a purely materialistic and sociological point-of-view, the past five thousand years demonstrate that there is little that matches the power of human conviction.  Beliefs sculpt history.

Every culture since the early Paleolithic Era has developed mythic concepts of magic and miracle to explain the inexplicable.  Apparently, such wonders are so ubiquitous that there isn’t a group of people anywhere on this planet who have not had to adapt their concepts of reality to include the supernatural.

When a person knowingly expresses an untruth, they give power to that false construct, which is why every historically significant ideological group requires its adherents to make an overt statement of faith.

When the NSDAP made virulent Antisemitism a requisite element of Nazism, every member had to parrot slanders against the Jews.  All personal experiences with real Jewish neighbors and coworkers were willfully abandoned when an aspiring National Socialist spoke the Party Line.

Individual experience became irrelevant.  Independent wisdom was annihilated and replaced with groupthink.  The specter of anti-Semitic fever dreams became ever-more palpable, until social reality in Germany warped to adapt itself to the new orthodoxy.

Those who lied helped create a new reality.  This same thing is happening today and it threatens all we value.

Gender is a social construct, based absolutely on biological sex.  While there are and always have been those who do not conform, sex and gender norms exist in every past and present human culture worldwide, without exception.

Homosexuals are not uniquely fragile people whose ongoing mental and physical well-being requires the rest of us to suddenly treat their assertions as being objectively real.  Society simply cannot conform to the mutually-exclusive visions of countless people who are unhappy with our cultural norms.

The Earth’s climate has always been in flux, and human beings have continually adapted society and technology to thrive in whatever new conditions eventuate.  We need not commit cultural or economic suicide in order to artificially freeze the global climate into any one state.  The biosphere’s survival does not require human extinction.

Western Civilization did and does reveal that it has flaws.  However, we of the West are the inheritors of those who innovated the concepts of human rights, self-government, free markets, industrial technologies, and the means of communications and travel that have connected our world.

Calling pride in the West “White Supremacy”, Americans “genocidal settler-colonists”, and our living standard “unsustainably problematic” reveals a willingness to emphasize all that might be bad about us while ignoring everything good.  Such cultural masochism is not truth.  It is propaganda.

Today, many are being pressured to prove their ideologically-defined virtue beyond any doubt.  How can anyone conclusively prove that they are not a thought criminal?  Our independent-mindedness makes us each an inevitable thought criminal.

If we continue to allow ourselves to be blackmailed into either silently abiding lies or actively speaking them, we risk nothing less than a new Dark Age.  If we fail to decry lies when we encountered them, we participate in the ongoing degradation of personal conscience.

Without individual integrity, we are unfit for freedom.  If we fail to personally oppose lies with truth, we risk these lies flourishing to become our new truth.

Ed gives a year end wrap-up for Idaho Speaks 2022 and looks ahead to 2023.  He shares the goal of the program and the challenges with the program gaining popularity.  Ed talks about how to address there being too many political candidates to interview and how Idaho Speaks plans on handling interviews going forward.

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WE & OUR ENEMIES: FACE-TO-FACE

Keep Right with Ralph K. Ginorio

I am a sinner.  I am also a Christian.  I am therefore keenly aware that no human being has earned the right to cast the first stone.  My clay feet are inescapable.  I try to live from a basis of genuine humility, because I have so very much about which to be humble.

Concomitant with this, though, is my duty as a Christian, as a man, and as an American to endeavor to speak truth, serve conscience, and stand against evil.  Christian love and civic duty require that I not be mute and neutral when faced with matters of right and wrong.  I believe we are each called to take sides.

Today, as our civilization teeters on the brink, we could drown in the rising tide of controversy.  I cannot think of any area of life that does not have enemies within clamoring for the West to destroy itself in shame over what they say we have done.  Simultaneously, there are outside forces hungering for our decrepitude, enslavement, or outright destruction.

The scope of these two types of attack on Judeo-Christian Western Civilization is staggering.  It is traumatic to have every powerful voice mobilized to tell us that we, ourselves, are the world’s chief problem.  In fact, our demoralization is their objective.

“Confusion to the enemy!” is an old British war toast.  The Greek word for the dark enemy of God literally means “confusion, through-and-through”.  Each and all of these contemporary attacks on our West aim to overwhelm our reason and confuse our certainties.  We are to be made insensible to our own conscience and unable to think clearly about effective ways we can serve it.

We are not faced, as we were in the Cold War, with a monolithic creed that intends to replace what we hold dearest in life.  Instead, there is a cacophony of voices raised against our traditions, values, freedoms, and folkways.  Many of these hold mutually-exclusive ideals.  Many hate one another.

But, be certain that they hate us more.  Their hatred coalesces this unlikely alliance of LGBTQ+ activists, Islamist Fundamentalists, Feminists, Transnormatives, Academic Deconstructivists, Western Communists, Globalist Plutocrats, Chinese Communists, Anarchists, De-Christianizers, Christian Liberation Theologians, Woke Social Justice Warriors, Anti-White Racists, Hollywood Propagandists, Climate Alarmists, Teachers’ Unions, and Legacy Media Moguls.

They want to destroy the Judeo-Christian West, with our many denominations, liberal democracy, human rights, freedoms of speech, liberty of conscience, free market, armed citizens, traditional gender roles, national identities, Constitutions, inspirational myths, and insistence on the sanctity of human life.

Our enemies are not interested in negotiating a live-and-let-live peace between us.  Their aim is not lassiez-faire mutual toleration with a genuine diversity of peaceably coexisting faiths.  Despite their babble of mutually-exclusive utopias, they are each in their own way religious zealots whose fervor will usher in our Apocalypse.

These Millenarians see our world as irredeemably evil.  They see the growing peace, prosperity, freedom, and population ushered in by the post-1945 Pax Americana as the Devil’s work.

This world will be cleansed by the holy fire of their convictions.  After our society is burned to ash, their proverbial Thousand Years of Peace will be all that remains.  For their New Jerusalem to be born, the West must die.

In service to such a purpose, any means are justified.  Our domestic and foreign enemies will enthusiastically lie, cheat, steal, seduce, deceive, imprison, and murder without shame or restraint.  Only their monomaniacal unscrupulousness can forge true Paradise-on-Earth.  Nothing must stand in their way.

This is why grown men are cheered when they dress as transvestites and shake their privates in the faces of children.  This is why free expression must be called misinformation, so that only their message can be heard.  This is why our own wealthiest citizens are using their influence to destroy the very way of life that brought them success.  This is why our security agencies have been unleashed against us as a Gestapo.  This is why our culture is deteriorating in decadence.  This is why our schools ardently steal hope and truth from innocents.  This is why,... all of it!

We must answer their fanaticism with courage, their lies with truth, their vanity with humility, their zealotry with mercy, their subjectivity with objectivity, their willfulness with faith, their excesses with restraint, their anxiety with trust, and their unscrupulousness with integrity.  We must answer their hatred with God’s love.

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In Maine and then Idaho, Ralph K. Ginorio has taught the history of Western Civilization to High School students for nearly a quarter century.  He is an “out-of-the-closet” Conservative educator with experience in Special Education, Public Schools, and Charter Schools, Grades 6-12.  He has lived in Coeur d’Alene since 2014.

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Do you have something so say?  Interested in learning more about publishing on the Idaho Speaks Network?  Our nation was built on ideas and your idea could be the next political advancement for Idaho.  Call Ed at (208) 209-7170 or email [email protected] to start the conversation.

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Do you have something so say?  Interested in learning more about publishing on the Idaho Speaks Network?  Our nation was built on ideas and your idea could be the next political advancement for Idaho.  Call Ed at (208) 209-7170 or email [email protected] to start the conversation.

Idaho Speaks is a listener supported production.  Please visit idahospeaks.com/support to learn about how to contribute to the production.

Would you like to share your thoughts with Ralph?  Please email your comments to [email protected] or post your comments on @IdahoSpeaks on Facebook.

Idaho Speaks is a listener supported production.  Please visit idahospeaks.com/support to learn more.

Do you have something so say?  Interested in learning more about publishing on the Idaho Speaks Network?  Our nation was built on ideas and your idea could be the next political advancement for Idaho.  Call Ed at (208) 209-7170 or email [email protected] to start the conversation.