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