Descent into Madness: Dostoevsky and the End of the West
By Boyd Cathey: Friends,
Our society is coming to resemble a dystopian “peoples’
paradise” in its darkly disturbing features. Think back to iconic works of
literature like Arthur Koestler’s Darkness At Noon and George Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
Are we not living in a society which is little more than a cross between the
nightmare visions of Koestler and Orwell? Do we not live in a society where
dissidents are branded as “domestic terrorists,” “insurrectionists,” or “racists,”
and face imprisonment for heretofore unimaginable thought crimes, all in the
name of “defending our democracy”? –where our children have become wards of the
state and are indoctrinated daily by mountains of fetid radical ideology?
–where television and the Internet are employed to fashion a particular jaundiced
view of life?—where science is now used to tell us the world will end in, what,
ten years, if we don’t take immediate action to curb “the climate
crisis”?—where we are cajoled to accept a “great reset” and a “new world order”
controlled by unseen elites?
Far too many citizens do not fathom what has occurred and is
happening in our society. And those who do understand, whether here in the US
or in Europe, are swatted down by the long arm of “Big Brother,” turned into
“non-persons,” their reputations destroyed, awakened by armed-to-the-teeth FBI
agents before dawn and imprisoned for months or years without trial or the
benefit of counsel—“enemies of the regime.”