Control the medium and you control what’s possible on it. Language is the medium of thought. So the way to curtail thought is to take away the tools that make it possible — ban words and phrases, change their meanings, outlaw certain expressions … and suddenly whole ideas are forbidden, if not impossible.
Today the so-called “literary” press is among the worst of the politically-correct controllers. That’s why contemporary literature is so weak and useless — it has no cultural cachet, the novel and poetry have almost no presence or power in public life. “Literary” is a synonym for weak-minded, academic PC junk that isn’t worth your time.
I won’t support them, and in return they won’t support me, either — Circuits of the Wind isn’t simplistic enough for them, they hate a lot of words and ideas in the book, and they sure don’t like white males — dead or alive.
So I was honored to be a part of Loren Feldman’s documentary film Silenced: Our War on Free Speech, produced by Mike Cernovich. It’s exactly about that. And a lot of us aren’t shutting up about it anymore.
