Matthew Boose, “Western Man and the Suicide Porn of Our Age,” updates the theme made by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his 1978 speech to Harvard University, where he saw the West’s cravings for material comfort and decadent affluence, “boundless materialism,” and the flight from religion and God, as leading as surely to a spiritual desert as much as communism would. And, he was right, for with the march of cultural Marxism through the institutions, the gap between the two systems, at least philosophically is not great. So much of the base of the USSR is present in the West now, almost taken for granted: “What have been the fruits of these idols? Oppressive ennui, mediocrity, and evils that multiply faster than the human imagination can reckon. The political freedoms once associated with Anglo-American liberalism, such as free speech, are now an illusion, replaced by a purely libertine conception of “freedom.” The blasphemous worship of sexual exotics and racial minorities is enforced by the world’s most powerful government.”
The assumption coming out of the Covid mandates, seen very clearly in the Victorian government response, is that ultra-paternalism is justified, that the state knows best, and has the right to steam-roll individual liberties, such as freedom from medical interventions, in aid of some public well being ideal. Actually, the ideal is that it is the maximisation of profits for Big Pharma, for the corporates have become a key component of this new communist ideal, as part of the Great Reset.