Where Is the Astronaut's Vision? If Not For Chuchill, You Would All Be Tweeting In German!

To Boldly Go Where the Social Justice Mob Tells You To Go

"...the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity."--Theodore Dalrymple

Washington Examiner:
Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill
The Astronaut: "One of the greatest leaders of modern times, Sir Winston Churchill said, 'in victory, magnanimity.' I guess those days are over."

I suppose he was talking about Justice Kavanaugh and this lady:

While his confirmation is indeed a victory for decency and the Rule of Law, it is also an American defeat that blood-sucking Democrats were able to drag us through this Hide-Tick Lynching in the first place.

Anyway, after {dubiously} tweeting Churchill, Kelly was instantly set upon by the Twitter Mob. He publicly recanted, abasing himself and groveling before the Proletarians' pitchforks:

"Did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill. My apologies. I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views which I do not support. My point was we need to come together as one nation. We are all Americans. That should transcend partisan politics."

Mark Steyn: The Totalitarianism of the Now:  "The appeal of "old" stories used to be that their truths were so enduring you didn't mind the crinolines and powdered wigs: When I read bedtime stories to my little girl - Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Black Beauty - she did not have an adult's conception of time and so was too young to know or to care that all these people lived years before she was born and were all now dead. She was simply engaged by their quandaries. The endurance of Shakespeare is, as the cliché has it, that he "understands human nature" and so you cut him some slack on the doublet and hose.
But the hyper-present-tense of our own culture has more or less inverted that: We don't mind the doublet and hose, it's the "human nature" that's the problem. So, when today's movies do the period stuff, we impose our values on their times - hence, all the "f*cks" and lesbo sub-plots in recent Miss Marples, or the ghastly boorishness of Robert Downey Jr's outings as Sherlock Holmes. Their times, our values. And because we are, in fact, engaged in overthrowing and remaking "human nature", the past's eternal verities are a particular affront.
It would be foolish to think that contempt can be contained merely to electronic entertainments. Today we insist "empathy" is a virtue, and trumpet our own incessantly. The more we boast of our "empathy", the less we have - not in the sense of the definition offered by David Berger in his book Clinical Empathy:

The capacity to know emotionally what another is experiencing from within the frame of reference of that other person.".......

The Federalist: "Australian Prime Minister John Howard once said that “a conservative is someone who doesn’t think he is morally superior to his grandfather.” But progressives hold the opinion that they are morally superior to their grandparents, while believing that their own grandchildren will somehow not feel the same way about them. That lack of humility makes it easier for them to be certain; it also makes them certain to be wrong.".......

This is the War on History.

Historicism is the view that history is driven by immutable laws, not by people. This is History-ism--just another way to bash Western History, like racism. sexism, species-ism and all the other isms that isn'ts.

Criticizing historical figures is one thing. Even FDR criticized Churchill's empire-nostalgia at the time.

But now, we pick Genghis Khan out of the history book, examine his stance on animal rights and pronounce him morally-inferior to ourselves as a way of self-puffery. Or worse, we throw out the history books entirely, tossing them onto the Fahrenheit 451 Bonfire of the Manatees' Rights.

This is the Vision of the Astronaut:

This is the Vision of the Anointed:

Choose wisely, meine kinder.

You think you are watching history, but History is Watching you!