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John Kerry Video - Anti-First Amendment - Despotism
(PD) James Tissot - Going to Business - In The News
Copyright © November 28, 2024
In recent news, a popular online video has been of USA politician John Kerry allegedly speaking against social media and the First Amendment's right of free speech. The video is usually found to have been trimmed down to around two minutes. The current link to the full World Economic Forum® video is https://videos- cloudfront. jwpsrv.com/ 6708 1f45_ 03a 4171 aae0 1b553 d103 b4c41 f2c3 6e79 a8ce 30e/ content/ conversions/ cT8Xt 7bd/ videos/ oIz FGX0b -3285 3367 .mp4 (spaces were added to enable word-wrap). The video is approximately 959.987mb of size (almost a full gig download), and over an hour long.
However, since the immediate focus of the short 'First Amendment' video is on John Kerry, then let's first back up a little and take a look at Kerry within a different video (~155.761mb, about 43 minutes long) from the same World Economic Forum: A Conversation with John Kerry: Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption ( https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/GyuqdD0Q-Htu9T5Nf.mp4 ). For those of us who are gleefully uncaring of our being dumber than dirt on the topic of politics, segments of the video did illustrate that John Kerry was able to hold a reasonably coherent dialog (I myself found no interest in the video's topics, so I did not watch it from start to finish). Therefore, if John Kerry is able to speak coherently and rationally about topics that he himself has firsthand experience with, then it gives evidence that Kerry may not be one of the many old people in government who are suffering from senility. (I myself was actually a bit impressed with portions of Kerry's talk; it was one of the best talks I have ever seen from a federal politician; he was able to string his words together within a manner which illustrated that his thoughts were logically associated with the other.)
John Kerry's Talk Against the First Amendment
Now, back to the short video segment of Kerry talking against the First Amendment (the segment runs from at about 45:00 to 46:46), and, regardless of how boring politics is to many of us, Kerry's short speech is useful as an excellent example of how people who with little or no knowledge of a topic sometimes believe that they ought to be the masters (despotism) of what people are permitted to believe (Sciencism and Academicism).
Several articles on this website lend additional background information that are related to the video as well as related to the topic of politics. Two of the articles are Studies of Cognitive and Emotional Decay Leading to Dementia "[6] Durational connects progressively abbreviated and attenuated relative to vertical and linear markers. Non-extant vertical duration is dominate.", and Alzheimer's Symptoms, Stages, Memory Loss and Cures "experience the intensity of agony".
Due to Kerry's repeated mumbling, stuttering, and disconnected thoughts within the video, the following partial transcription is not 100% accurate. Everyone is strongly recommended to watch the video themselves on the World Economic Forum website, or youtube.com, or any of the numerous other sources that provide videos.
Partial Transcript of "A Conversation with John Kerry: Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption"
"And I think the, the, the dislike of, and, anguish over social media is just growing and growing and growing. Uh, and it is part of our problem, particularly in democracies, uh in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't you, you you know, the referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact have kind of, you know been eviscerated, to a certain degree. And uh, and people go and uh people self-select where they go for their news for their information, and then you just get into a vicious cycle. So it's really really hard much harder to build some consensus today than at any time in the, about fifty years I've been involved in this. And, and, I... ...but most if people just go to only one source, and the source that they go to is sick, and, uh, you know, has an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, uh, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to, you, you know, hammer down to the truth, and so, what choo need, what we need, is, is, is, is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully, having, uh uh, you know, winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to uh, to uh, implement change."
Comments on Kerry's Speech
I myself felt troubled when first seeing the video's short segment on a website (the commonly viewed segment gives the appearance of Kerry being mentally deranged), but now having observed the segment within its context, it is not so bad. Without entering into lengthy details and critiques (some of which are unnecessarily too direct and unkind), two plausible interpretations of Kerry's verbalizations are sufficient:
[1] Televangelism. It appeared that Kerry did not have much firsthand experience with the topic, and thus he was trying to invent related ideas as he spoke. Televangelists invent claims of evils, and then conclude by saying 'Send me your money! Send me your money!'. Humorously, Kerry too spoke of 'evils', and then summed his intended message as 'Vote for us! Vote for us!'.
[2] Incoherent ramblings of despots. I watched the video several times (including in slow motion while writing the transcript), but I am still not convinced that Kerry's words conveyed what he may have believed his words to be saying. To me, it appears that his thoughts were disconnected, that of his thinking about one topic while attempting to ad hoc force-fit disconnected topics.
All in all, in my opinion Kerry's talks do well when the topics revolve around his own firsthand experiences within topics, but when faced with a topic that he has little knowledge of, his talks leave far too many gaps of reasoning, of which, some social media people have used to insert their own interpretations of what they want and claim Kerry to have said.
History Always Repeats Itself
The article Every One Has an Unalienable Right of Thinking For Himself is usefully related. Three quick quotes:
"...North Carolina's delegates had held debates in 1788 over the question of whether or not to join the Union. Within the document, the concerns of the anti-federalists' still ring very true today: when a people let someone else to rule over one's own inalienable human rights, then it is assured that the governing body will become abusive, oppressive, violent, and tyrannical. All nations have suffered from tyranny, slavery, injustice, and genocide (the trail of tears will never be forgotten nor forgiven), and all nations will continue to suffer until people stand up and think for themselves."
"Mr. Goudy (William Gowdy)... Every one has an unalienable right of thinking for himself. There can be no inconvenience from laying down general rules. If we give away more power than we ought, we put ourselves in the situation of man who puts on an iron glove, which he can never take off till he breaks his arm. Let us beware of the iron glove of tyranny. Power is generally taken from the people by imposing on their understanding or by fetters. Let us lay down certain rules to govern our proceedings."
"The Bill of Rights may still exist, but almost no government employee honors the rights written. But here, the sum remains the same regardless of whether the topic is about politics, human nature, sciences, ideologies, or anything else; think for yourself. No one is your owner, nor your boss. You alone are responsible for your own thoughts and behavior. Self-thinking ought to occur always for everything."
If federalists are given power over everyone's lives and freedom of speech, then there will soon follow similar atrocities by federalists as what occurred in the 1700s and 1800s. History always repeats itself because people repeat the same mistakes. The next trails of tears may very well include you and your family. The choice is yours.
Closing Thoughts
The social media 'problem' would be easily solved if children were permitted to grow up thinking and self-learning how to reason, but, far too many despot politicians demand that children ignorantly memorize lies in the public schools. The 'social media problem' was caused by politicians (and let's not forget that the televangelists, priests, preachers, monks, television broadcasters, Hollywood, and darn near all other organized for-profit organizations are no less guilty of doing the same as what politics has done).
(Big grin) You could easily eliminate the social media 'problem' by running television commercials that show social media users as being blithering idiot imbeciles. The social media users that are easily swayed by what they see online and on television would soon close their social media accounts. There, problem solved, and we did so without the despotism of politics.
Avoiding a Long Critique of Kerry's Speech
The original draft of this article grew large with rebuttals of everything said within the video, but rather than to permit federalist politics to spread and to infest the public as a pandemic of sickness, it was chosen to not include the information. It is ample enough to simply state that everyone interested in the topic ought to watch the video, and to then form their own opinions.