New Silicon Graffiti Video: 'Forward, into the Past'

In last week’s video, we explored how the progressive movement of the 19th century set the stage for what Tom Wolfe dubbed “Starting from Zero,” in which millennia of knowledge could safely discarded and the CTRL-ALT-DLT keys be pressed to reboot mankind.

What could go wrong? Well, other than the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, WWII, Communist China, Communist Cuba, Communist Vietnam and Communist North Korea.

Fortunately though, America managed to avoid a complete Start From Zero, and Europe and Japan were lucky enough to be rebuilt by mid-century American liberals still relatively confident about the benefits of western civilization.

But Harry Truman, Secretary of State George Marshall, and JFK all left the building long ago. What passes for “liberalism” today, is anything but; it’s much more interested in, as Hillary infamously said in 2004, taking things away from you for the common good.

Hence the systemic attempts to ban:

• DDT
• Nuclear power
• Hydroelectric dams
• Guns
• Light bulbs
• Domestic oil drilling
• And on and on, because everything is either caused by global warming, or causes it.

And thus, in the second decade of a new millennium, progressives against progress force us to boldly march…Forward into the past!

Click on the above video to watch; a handy portable/embeddable YouTube version is available here. For 60 or so previous editions of Silicon Graffiti, click here and just keep scrolling. And thank you once again for your continued readership (and viewership!) over the last nine years of blogging.