Where would we be without Hitler?

How to avoid noticing things

This article was first published on TCW. My version here includes links.

It is taboo to notice things as they are – to, in the words of Roy Walker on Catchphrase - “say what you see”.

Since reality is composed of elements unwilling to conform to the rainbow prejudices of the Regime, it is the senses by which reality is experienced which are now seen to be doubtful. You are told you are an idiot to believe the evidence of your own eyes.

The very phrase ‘lived experience’ is composed to condescend to people who have witnessed the truth of social decay, crime, cultural strife and the discomfiting harangues of men in drag demanding to be taken extremely seriously. ‘Lived experience’ is never to be dismissed, of course, but it cannot hope to reflect the complex and multiple causes of obvious problem X.

These complex and multiple causes are never explained or even named. It is enough for the wool-puller to hand you the balaclava of bunkum, that you might meekly apply it to yourself. The eyehole…