An interview between two Internetstars of the alt-right movement has been ticking up the hits on YouTube. “Another canary in the coal mine”is what they agreed Canada now represents and it made me want to write about something I have felt for awhile.
The alt-right movement should be a concern to many because it borrows techniques used in history by some of the most evil people ever to walk the earth.
An offering of protected camaraderie united as one seeking protection from a manufactured monster is how the alt-right and left survives.
For the alt-right the manufactured monster is the idea that the west is somehow coming to an end because perceived communists and perceived foreign factions are infecting western governments.
In Canada we have hate-speech laws that have been utilized to protect only certain types of Canadians and not others we also have some unemployment problems. We do have some nationalized businesses and what happened to Makayla Saultis something I hope no one forgets.
Winston Churchill himself spoke about how democracy was imperfect but he believed in it enough that he was willing to entirely expense his own democracy trying to stop a real dictatorship form spreading.
Democracy isn’t perfect because people are not perfect. The ideas that the alt-left and alt-right offer to fix everything are both flawed because both groups offer a solution to fix an imperfect society ran by imperfect people.
The constant struggle to do the right thing that we all face every day is an inherent vice we as humans share and just because we have advanced and complex societies doesn’t mean we are free from that vice.
Canada is not another canary in the coalmine and people who think that are looking to gain power and money from creating societal division.
Northern Etobicoke in Ontario has a very high amount of new Canadians and I lived there for five months. I also grew up in a small town that has a very high amount of Christians. The new Canadians were not radicalized lunatics and the townspeople were not radicalized racist lunatics.In both places every time one of those hot topic issues like free speech, homosexuality or gun ownership came up no one really cared and if they did the conversation was mostly unheated.
Before anyone feeds the manufactured monster that is creating societal division you have to ask yourself who built this monster and what do they benefit from its existence? Consider these two examples.
What does suppressing constitutionally granted free speech have to do with helping minorities? Nothing. All it does is trap the ignorant in echo chambers who slowly convince themselves that it is the minorities taking away their free speech. What it does is get votes from people who are not smart enough to see how they are being used.
What does being on YouTube and saying horrible things about minorities have to do with helping to preservefree speech? Nothing. All it does is trap the ignorant in echo chambers who slowly convince themselves that they have a right to not be offended and constitutional rights are subordinate to their feelings. What it does is make that person on YouTube a lot of money.
These examples share one thing in common and it is the conflagrationof societal division.
The fundamental problem in human history is not one ideology vs. another ideology but the willingness people have to sacrifice themselves for an ideology. The problem is the inability people have of not recognizing themselves as an individual capable of their own free will can do right by others.
There is so much talk of coming together and picking sides and fighting the alt-right and the alt-left. There are hundreds of small factions like Black Lives Matter, The National Front, Rise Canada, The Proud Boys and so on who demand unwavering support and loyalty. They ask of this because they think there is a war to be fought to fix society and all of it is nonsense motivated by power and money.
What people need to do is recognize they are an individual, and are capable of their own free will, can do right by others. Therefore they need not align themselves with any faction in order to help society. Canada is not deteriorating into anarchy, racism or economic collapse. All people, regardless of their differences, need to come together and stand against those who would use them as disposable pawns in a game to get money and power if they truly wish to see societal division stop.
