This is an open letter to the owner of X who has been in the UK news recently from the editor of the TDL Times (we are well aware he is not going to read this):
To Elon Musk
The United Kingdom right now is in the grip of probably the most authoritarian left-wing government it has ever had. It’s democratic legitimacy is the weakest in this island’s history since the advent of universal suffrage. Under our constitution this state of affairs is most likely going to go on for around 5 years. The United Kingdom is not going to change its ways and is likely to get far worse in its drive to the imposition of law rather than the consent of it.
You must understand, as I’m sure you already do, that the new ultra-progressive left we have running our country, and as it turns out our streets, is driven by something that is almost impossible to counter in their minds; it is that same zeal that has driven some of the worst excesses of humanity in the history of human kind; the drive for perfection. Like Karl Marx himself, the people who flood the mainstream narrative and now the corridors of power believe in their hearts that they can make the country and the world not just a better place but the best place. They are not entrenched solely by an infantile and petulant narrative but by a genuine feeling that they are on a quest to slay the dragons of society once and for all. Why do you think the words ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ are thrown around a lot? They stand in the way of the perfect society. The drive for perfection is very real and in this country (re)education and now the authorities will make sure this happens.
Perfection is a very human desire born out of the inability to move away from the idealised stories of our youth. From disney to the very picture books we nostalgically remember in our past, we grew up for years believing that there was right and wrong, dark and light, evil and good. This was very much part of the old religious teachings but the important lesson that dragged us out from the dark ages of our past was the belief that good and evil were battling away from us between the devils and angels. Here on earth we were not part of that battle but mere victims of a battle going on far away in the clouds or in the pits of hell. We could therefore stop seeing things as good and evil and we found nuance, we found grey areas and real human progress started to come marching out. Technology, the ancient forefathers of the empire you now stand on, was born out of the knowledge that the battle of good and evil lay not on earth but somewhere else. The unknown was no longer something to fear. We could get on with each other.
Now, look at us. We are taught again and again with so many films that there is good and evil and that evil oppresses us before we can do good. Disney is awash with oppressors and oppressed, where before we still had some stories telling us that the battle between good and evil is at best complicated. We now live in a world where the ancient dark-age stories of good and evil are back and now the whole world must return to those days when fear of evil peering behind every corner drew communities away, made people suspicious and drew the walls up between father and son, husband and wife, family and family, people and people, ideology and ideology. We are now awash with people who have never grown up and tossed their good and evil books aside. They cling to their stories wishing for it to be that simple. They mark evil on the map wherever they deem it necessary and declare ‘good’ onto those they see as being oppressed by these evil people.
And so, Elon Musk, this is why though you are important you are evil in their eyes. You stand before the madness of crowds baying for perfection, as behind you is your company symobolsing that which drew humanity out from the darkness of fear and hatred and into modernity all those years ago; imperfection. You acknowledge through X/Twitter, that though we may all speak imperfectly, making mistakes at times, it is our right to do so that keeps us from returning to the darkness. Our ability to speak and take responsibility for our spoken word is what keeps us from the mad desire for perfection as outlined by an oppressive authority. You represent an entirely different world to them and it is a threat. If it is not perfect then it is evil. If it speaks against the promised land then it must be destroyed. And as your users exercise their voice in a way that in other circles would have them removed from a possible public, social or wealthy life they are merely one step away from being silenced themselves; or at least the ones who speak against perfection as ordained by the masters in power and on our streets.
The drive for perfection has in history had one salient question; what do you do with those who are in the way? In history that has ranged from making them vanish to making them emigrate to making them move to a ghetto to making them die. Today many of these aspects are, thankfully for now at least, off the table. Instead, due to the corporatisation and harmonisation of social attitudes across politics, the media and the corporate world, the method of today is to make life not worth living for these people. Dehumanise them so they are ostracised by the polite public and polite society. Silence them so they have no voice. Remove their bank accounts so they have no means of paying for even the most basic of things. Remove their representatives so they have no one to go to. Imprison them if they get frustrated and take it out on the street. These happen to this day in the UK and is and will happen in other like-minded countries across the western world.
Know that you cannot win. There can be no middle ground because that would in itself acknowledge imperfection which the ultra-progressive left simply hate. They see you as a threat not because you allow hate speech but because you allow speech unburdened by regulation from a political body that thinks it knows better. You acknowledge that you do not know better than the mass of human life going on in the world today, nobody does. All those who have believed it have killed millions in the process justified by their idea that they know better. There is no negotiation to be had.
Censorship is already alive and well in this country. It’s called ‘political correctness’; a term originating in the Soviet Union as an argument against telling the truth. But where censorship used to be issued from low-level organisations like our media regulator OFCOM, now it is out in the open and will be issued by our government, long waiting in the shadows alongside the very censors who have long awaited for them to take power and justify actions taken long ago. We are already the most surveiled state. We, the Great British public, cannot be trusted with driving our cars properly, or running our businesses properly, or using our electricity and energy properly, or boarding a plane properly. We are regulated already, and the next step; censoring speech, is simply a continuation of what has already happened.
To you, Elon Musk, the people of the UK who stand to lose a great deal by the following actions of this UK government say this; fight, fight like hell. You know that there are avenues and levers that are available to you and though it may seem like re-arranging some deckchairs on the Titanic that is this United Kingdom know that if the Labour Party and Keir Starmer get their way then the people of the United States of America will point to us instead of the Scandinavian countries and say ‘look, authoritarian socialism can be implemented!’ Don’t give up on a country that birthed modernity, parliament and the basis of equality of all before the law. You have a partly-English heritage. Well right now, to emulate the words of one of our heroes Horatio Nelson; “England expects that everyone will do his duty”. I hope you will answer a similar call this time.
I commend this letter to you whilst it is still able to be displayed before censorship takes it down.
Yours
The Editor of the TDL Times
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