America has been thrown into a tyrannical nightmare. This tyranny has seized control of our Federal Government by way of the bureaucracy and more recently, an overzealous executive branch that oversteps the authority that it is allowed according to the supreme law of the land, our US Constitution. You may say that tyranny is a strong word, so how do we define tyranny in this particular sense? Albert Maysles (1926-2015), an influential cinematographer and director, eloquently stated that tyranny is “the deliberate removal of nuance”. I think that one can argue, that the world has seen the death of nuance. We see this absence of nuance in our current political climate as activists organize and protest for the cause or causes that they believe are most noble. Politicians, media, educators in academia, and the like use a gaslighting strategy to keep these activists foaming at the mouth, as most of these causes that the useful idiots advocate for are much more complex than a simple, “tax the rich”, “end fossil fuels”, or “save the children/whales/trees/baby seals/Bambi” etc. The term that I referenced above, “useful idiots”, was a term used by Vladimir Lenin to describe the group of people that advocate for a cause that they do not fully understand. Lenin knew that this gullible group was instrumental in achieving the control that he wanted to have over the population.
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The Death of Nuance
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America has been thrown into a tyrannical nightmare. This tyranny has seized control of our Federal Government by way of the bureaucracy and more recently, an overzealous executive branch that oversteps the authority that it is allowed according to the supreme law of the land, our US Constitution. You may say that tyranny is a strong word, so how do we define tyranny in this particular sense? Albert Maysles (1926-2015), an influential cinematographer and director, eloquently stated that tyranny is “the deliberate removal of nuance”. I think that one can argue, that the world has seen the death of nuance. We see this absence of nuance in our current political climate as activists organize and protest for the cause or causes that they believe are most noble. Politicians, media, educators in academia, and the like use a gaslighting strategy to keep these activists foaming at the mouth, as most of these causes that the useful idiots advocate for are much more complex than a simple, “tax the rich”, “end fossil fuels”, or “save the children/whales/trees/baby seals/Bambi” etc. The term that I referenced above, “useful idiots”, was a term used by Vladimir Lenin to describe the group of people that advocate for a cause that they do not fully understand. Lenin knew that this gullible group was instrumental in achieving the control that he wanted to have over the population.