If There is no Free Speech, There is no Real Thought Video by Melissa Dougherty
We’re finding more and more people embracing blatant lies thinking it’s the high moral ground. As language becomes less expressive, minds are more easily controlled. Apathy makes people prefer the false peace of conformity to the tensions of liberty. Whatever and whoever has the power can pressure you into believing their version of truth…. even if they’re flat-out lies. Anyone who opposes this is viewed as backward and ignorant. We live in a world where there is more and more intense social pressure to accept that there is no such thing as objective truth. There’s only power. Whoever holds the power decides what is true and false. The value of truth claims depends on who’s making them. More and more people are knowingly believing lies out of fear of opposing them.
In possibly one of my favorite interviews I’ve done so far, Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason addresses free speech and what this really means.
