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+Hate, racism, and pornography
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+:date: 2016-12-06T22:29:06
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: blogcomment, politics
+
+(reply to the Common sense no. 308_)
+
+.. _308:
+    http://www.dancarlin.com/product/common-sense-308-return-of-the-podcaster/
+
+While I was listening to the show and thought about Dan’s
+rambling on 
+
+* it is like porn, people just got a new huge horn and they feel
+  need to blast it. In the same time, we listeners, are not used
+  to the junk and we don't know how to tune out. Testimony of
+  the experience of the early 1990s in the post-Communist Czechia
+  To some extent we should just get used to the flat world. Next
+  time we will get better … overreaction from ignorance … the
+  next time we will know that Duke should be just ignored, and we
+  shouldn't get trolled into doing something stupid.
+
+* talking about 1990s, i do remember our relationships with  the
+  Russia. It was time of miracles, but we really expected that we
+  all post-Communist nations would get free eventually. Yes,
+  there was Romania (whose revolution was anything but velvet)  or
+  Yugoslavia, but we all expected that these teething problems
+  (quite horrible in case of Yugoslavia) would be overcome and
+  then that we all would be *normal* (there was actually then
+  significantly little of the ideology, we just wanted to be
+  normal like everybody else). And we believed the same for
+  Russia. In some aspects they started even earlier with Glasnost
+  and Perestroyka, and yes their situation was (as expected)
+  quite horrible, but I do remember how incredibly little hatred
+  and plenty of good will towards Russia there was considering
+  the Russian state was our occupier for the past forty years or
+  so (in various forms and shapes).
+
+    A side note. It was quite shocking how much of the goodwill
+    there was towards Russians after 1991 in the post-Communist
+    Central and Eastern Europe nations, considering they were the
+    occupants for more than forty years (under various means, and
+    yes it is more complicated). All those talks by the
+    Conservative pundits hoping to restore the Cold War stability
+    when they could talk it over with their colleagues in Kremlin
+    (see Dan Carlin’s Common Sense) are completely wrong when
+    they consider the West at least partial blameworthy of the
+    current relationship with Russia. I really believe that the
+    Yeltsin (with all his problems) tried to make Russia just
+    a more or less normal member of the community of normal
+    states of the world. Yes, he hugely failed and 1990s in
+    Russia could be characterized like something between mess and
+    mafia wars, but 
+
+* of course, all this bad stuff is mightily amplified by all
+  professional media, because when it bleeds, it leads. So, we
+  have now in the newspapers inch headlines about the supposed
+  hatred towards Roma, which means that they have nothing real to
+  write about. Yes, there is a lot of hatred against Roma in
+  Czechia, but it is nothing new and journalists have really no
+  new news, just trying to instigate the feeling of outrage among
+  the readers;
+
+* there is also the other pendulum … not only between the right
+  and left, but also between fringes and centers. We have been
+  for a long time in the political environment where all
+  politicians were stuck in the middle. Times when Bill Clinton
+  was a way more free-market supporter than supposedly right-side
+  George Bush with his biggest government spending since Lyndon
+  Johnson. Of course, I don't like the radical politics, but
+  perhaps if the politicians of different sides of the political
+  spectrum were distinguishable from each other, it could help to
+  prevent the panic a bit.
+
+* and of course, journalists have absolutely zero concept of long
+  time. What matters is how to sell the papers today, who cares
+  that probably the panic will go away next week, that's seven
+  releases down the road.
+
+- DON’T PANIC! I think the biggest danger is that we will make
+  a lot of panicky decisions. “World is falling apart, so let's
+  throw out all rules out of the window!” Remember, Korematsu_
+  case is still on the US books.
+
+  We will find out some solutions, we will learn how to deal with
+  the social networks in more sane ways, perhaps politicians will
+  turn back to thinking about what is liberal and what is
+  conservative or socialist. Only we shouldn't screw up by panic.
+
+.. _Korematsu:
+    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States