Earlier today I was checking up on Noam Chomsky’s biography to ensure that my information for the upcoming second post in a series is correct. I have 3 different browsers installed on my Linux machine – Pale Moon for most of what I do under my real name, Chromium (open-source Chrome, basically) for everything that I do as Didact and a few things besides, and actual Google Chrome, for Netflix and… pretty much nothing else.
I don’t use Brave yet on my laptop, simply because they don’t yet have a stable package built directly for Debian-based Linux systems. The day they do, though, I will probably replace the Firefox-based Pale Moon with Brave, or at least switch over most of my browsing to Brave. If you don’t have Brave browser for mobile yet, though, I highly recommend it – the browser works brilliantly on Android and as far as I am aware it works pretty well on OS X also. (If you’re silly enough to insist on letting yourself get penned in by Apple’s beautiful, but extremely restrictive, operating system and “walled-garden” principles, that is.)
Now, on Pale Moon, it is possible to install a Firefox-based plugin called Redirector, which you can use to force the browser to move away from SJW-converged platforms and websites like Wikipedia, and toward alternatives like Infogalactic or Conservapedia.
Seeing as I am an original backer of the Infogalactic project, I take a personal interest in the development of the platform. I do like to see whether or not I get my money’s worth, after all, when it comes to projects initiated by our beloved and terrible Supreme Dark Lord Vox Day (PBUH).
So there I was, bumbling about looking for information on Noam Chomsky’s academic career and political views – which by the way is considerable at this point, given that he cannot resist sticking his nose into pretty much every contemporary political debate around, and is something of a darling of the intellectual Left for a number of reasons – when I clicked on his Wikipedia link in Pale Moon.
I was then redirected to Infogalactic behind the scenes. I expected this.
What I did not expect was to see this:
Why is this important? There are two main reasons.
First, take a look at Wikipedia’s version of the results for a search for “Noam Chomsky” in your browser’s search bar:
So basically, you get sent directly to what one or two of the 560-odd Wikipedia admins consider to be “the” authoritative biography of Noam Chomsky.
And if you go to the “Talk” page on the Wikipedia article, you will see quite a bit of discussion about Prof. Chomsky’s positions – which is unsurprising, given that he is something of a magnet for controversy. You will find from even the most cursory glance at this page that Wikipedia’s admins are adamant about maintaining their own sanctified “standards” and refuse to permit others to form their own point of view about the man.
That is precisely why we on the Hard Right decided to fund a Wikipedia alternative. We were, and are, sick and tired of having just one authoritative point of view rammed down our throats.
It is critical to remember that our values and morals have a huge influence on how we view the truth. People on the Left and the Right can look at exactly the same set of facts and come to diametrically opposed interpretations of those facts based entirely on their own personal beliefs, morals, values, and experiences.
That is why, for example, the Left can look at the legacy of Communism and argue with a completely straight face that real socialism has never been tried before, and the Right can look at the exact same legacy and say that socialism always and everywhere leads to economic catastrophe and unimaginable human suffering.
That is why the Left can look at the record of a man like current Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh and conclude that the man is a woman-hating racist who will overturn Roe v. Wade in a heartbeat – descending into frothing hysterics and rage-fuelled temper tantrums in the process – while the Right can look at him and conclude that the man is a serious, sober, careful scholar of Constitutional law who adheres to a highly Originalist line of thinking and treats every case individually on its own merits.
That is why the Left can look at the life of Jesus Christ and conclude that He was just a man, a kind of a long-haired hippie who advocated for a primitive form of socialism and that His words were hijacked and altered by St. Paul the Apostle, while the Right can look at the exact same figure and conclude that Christ is Lord and King, the Son of God, the saviour and redeemer of Mankind, and the most powerful authority of moral law and righteous behaviour that has ever walked the Earth.
Which leads us to the second point.
One of the promises that the Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) and his inner circle of Starlords made when they created Infogalactic was that they would permit and even encourage different points of view, thereby allowing people to choose their own lens on the Truth.
This promise is so important that it is enshrined as the very first of the Seven Canons of Infogalactic. And make no mistake – this is an extremely tall order. It is so ambitious as to seem very nearly insane, actually. Any rational mind would argue that it is just about impossible to allow different pages to show you different perspectives on the same individual, subject, or idea. The number of possible perspectives is endless and the number of possible interpretations is infinite.
And yet, Infogalactic is delivering.
That delivery is happening slowly, to be sure, but it is happening nonetheless. There is indeed a real effort underway to ensure that different perspectives are presented to the end-user of Infogalactic, and that the end-user can choose how he wants to view the truth.
You and I do this every day, consciously or otherwise, by choosing where we get our news from and how we digest it. In my case, for instance, I concluded a long time ago that the lying liars of the legacy news “media” (Lord, forgive me my redundancies) simply cannot be trusted and that I would be crazy to continue paying attention to their lies. So I stopped worrying about what The Carlos Slim Blog, The Jeff Bezos Blog, Clown News Network, the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation, SkyNet, ABCNNBCBS, and a whole host of other media outlets had to say about pretty much anything.
Instead I get most of my news and form my views from Breitbart.com, RT (which the useful idiots and warmongers of The Daily Mail will absolutely insist on reminding you was once called Russia Today, as if you don’t have the wit and brains to figure that out for yourself), and a handful of other non-mainstream sources.
There is no question or doubt that this profoundly influences my point of view and my perception of reality. Where that perception is out of line with reality, it is my perception that must change, not reality itself.
Such is the value of Infogalactic today. Now you no longer have to be locked in to someone else’s point of view about the world. Now you can choose what you want to see. Now you can figure out how you want to interpret the facts.
And now you can decide for yourself which facts are worth your time, and which ones are not.
This is not merely amazing. It is revolutionary. And it is one more step – one more small, vital step – toward taking back the culture and winning the Long War against the Left, who are even now taking all the steps at their disposal to legally silence, stifle, and drive out all non-Leftist thought and belief.
1 Comment
Didact,
Thanks for the tip about Brave. I've played around with the Windows 10 version and it's OK. It seems that the next Window version will use some elements of Chrome so that plugins and extensions can be used. I'll wait and see which ones. I still use Chrome for Android (yes yesy I know) but I don't have the spae in my tablet for another browser (though I do use Samsung's browser in secret mode) When I get a new phone, I'll get Brave (I'll stiil have Chrome but only for stuff that breaks in Brave) and give it a try.
O as for Chomsky: think of him as the late 20th century/earlt 21st century Bertrand Rusell. Paul Johnson has an awesome take down of him that could equally apply to Chomsky.
And we need to use Manufactured consent against the fanatics
xavier