A new dogma has turned beliefs that once seemed common sense into hate crimes. [tr]

Daily Mail ^ | 8-31-19 | Douglas Murray

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The question of what exactly we are meant to do now – other than get rich and have fun – was going to have to be answered by something. The answer that has presented itself in recent years has been to live in a permanent state of outrage. To find meaning by waging constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question to which the answer has only just been altered.

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The interpretation of the world through the lens of ‘social justice’ and ‘identity group politics’ is probably the most audacious and comprehensive effort since the end of the Cold War at creating a new ideology.

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For most people, awareness of this new religion has become clear not so much by trial as by public error. Because one thing that everybody has begun to sense in recent years is that a set of tripwires have been laid across the culture.

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Just as things appeared better than ever before, the rhetoric started suggesting things had never been worse.

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‘St George in retirement’ syndrome. After slaying the dragon, the warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for more glorious fights. Eventually, after tiring himself out in pursuit of ever-smaller dragons, he may eventually be found swinging his sword at thin air, imagining dragons.

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Today our public life is dense with people desperate to slay imagined dragons.

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As anyone who has lived under totalitarianism can attest, there is something demeaning and eventually soul-destroying about being expected to go along with claims you do not believe to be true.

[Dust in the Wind]

Worth repeating.

A new dogma has turned beliefs that once seemed common sense into hate crimes.

No, it hasn't. Common sense still prevails across most of the Western world - the problem is that it does not prevail among the self-proclaimed "elites" who control establishment politics and Big Media. Because this small minority of loons control most of the means of communication, the false impression that their insanity is shared by everyone else is spread.

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