Decker: 5 Questions with Michael Savage ‘Our society is being turned into a sort of prison camp’

washingtontimes.com ^ | November 6, 2012 | By Brett M. Decker

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Michael Savage is one of the most influential conservative voices in America. His groundbreaking radio show, “The Savage Nation,” is the third-largest program in the country with over 10 million listeners. His straight talk about radical Islam was deemed so offensive by politically correct censors that he was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2009. A pioneer in ethnobotanical research, Dr. Savage has master’s degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology and a Ph.D. in epidemiology and nutrition sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. Bestselling author of 28 books, his new release is “Train Tracks: Family Stories for the Holidays” (William Morrow, Nov. 6). You can find out more about Dr. Savage’s causes and endeavors at MichaelSavage.com.

Decker: Perhaps it is due to vivid storytelling, but your characters from days gone by seem so much more interesting than the average man on the street today. As you explain in the introduction, the point of “Train Tracks” is to show, “that in the ordinary there is the extraordinary.” What is it about the modern permissive society that encourages everyone to do what they want but forms such a “uniform individuality”?

Savage: What comes to mind is George Orwell’s famous saying from the 1930s that the more he hears people screaming freedom, freedom, freedom, the more he hears their chains rattling. I think that about sums it up. Today we have people who think that they are wild and free and crazy because they are engaging in risky, insane, round-the-clock sex, using drugs, defying everything decent in society. But that’s not freedom, is it? That’s not even anarchy. What it is, is simple conformity. That’s all it really is.

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