After one of my very regular and long morning conversations with a good friend about the abstracts of all the things which plague the West, we landed on a couple of points of solidity in terms of the attributes of each side of the great conflict. To get to that point, examples were needed.
The poles of the conflict can be said to look like this:
On one side, the ultimate system for human organization that allows for the maximum possibility for development, creativity, fairness as its properly understood in the West, and individual liberties. And that would be the US constitution. Frankly, the first two amendments of the Bill of Rights in some ways is all one needs to understand. The right to speak freely, and the right to defend the first right by opposing with force of arms, a tyrannical state which would remove the first right.
(Not that this should be needed to be added, but freedom of speech only has one purpose. The right to criticize political and religious authority in order to keep its power in check. And that is its only purpose. All other freedoms stem from those. And when you no longer have those rights, you have none. Not even the right to stop the state from castrating and sexually and chemically mutilating your children.)
The other pole is the never ending destruction of all systems of societal organization via the Hegelian dialectic. In its abstract, it is the use of the principles of Hegel however much affected by Marx, to perpetually destroy any and all power structures. Which would perhaps explain why we see anarchists protesting with the communists in the streets of so many cities so often. In reality though, the communists end up creating a state which is God like in its power. The book 1984 explains it rather brilliantly in the chapters after Winston Smith is arrested and taken to the Ministry of Love and eventually to room 101. An easier way though, is talk to anyone you know who is an East European expat that fled during communism. Perhaps every bit as instructive as what they say, is how reticent they will be to talk about it, as their fear of speaking the truth is both a consequence of their ‘lived experience’ as well as their recognition that Canada is in many ways well on the way to being a dialectically operated, totalitarian and oppressive polity.
And this brings me to the example. And this will likely only ring bells with Canadians, and especially in Ontario.
As of the date of the Freedom Convoy in early 2022, symbols were created with a great deal of meaning for many Canadians. The Canadian flag was flown along with symbols of Donald Trump in a non ironic way, because both were being used to demand personal liberty from tyrannical covid measures. Ones which Mark Carney had not just a small part in.
Tucker is quoting an op ed from the Globe and Mail.
Since the Freedom Convoy, people with Canadian flags on their cars or trucks were signalling resistance to the communist state and patriotism to the individualist nation most believe that Canada had been up until 2020. Many vehicles were less subtle about the messaging. The photo below is of a truck that was at the Tamara Lich talk yesterday in Ottawa. But for most, a single or dual Canadian flag on a car or especially a truck, meant loyalty to the right to bodily autonomy and an end to the WEF instructed destruction of the individual.
(Tamara is one of the people now convicted for “Mischief” for her role in the demonstration against mandatory mRNA gene therapy. More on that soon as well as a video of her talk)
And until recently, when patriots in the usual sense saw a vehicle with Canadian flags drive by we knew they were about. There would often be an exchange of waves or perhaps a friendly honk-honk. A genuine subculture was born of samisdat style messaging of those oriented towards a proper individualist and freedom oriented state, and in opposition to Trudeau’s collectivist and destructive one.
Then the old switcheroo happened. The front man for the WEF, Justin Trudeau, was sent back to being a full time wealthy elitist surfer party boy and was craftily replaced with the actual WEF/COMINTERN manager, Mark Carney. It is quite likely that Carney was the man directing the govt’s policies all along with Trudeau acting as one might say, in the same role as Joe Biden fronting for Obama, or whoever directed him.
Then the dialectic negation of the Canadian flag as a symbol for freedom happened.
Which is perhaps a little ironic since the current Canadian flag created and made official by communist PM, Lester Pearson, is itself a dialectic negation of the Red Ensign, which was a meaningful Canadian flag in terms of Canadian identity and history as a nation.
Carney managed to make Donald Trump the enemy for most CBC CTV and Global viewers. He did so by using distortions of Trump’s tariff policies and other propaganda techniques. But the clever thing was taking the rubric of patriotism away from actual patriots, and getting leftists and Liberal Party supporters to hang Canadian flags as a symbol of opposition to Donald trump. Exactly the opposite as the actual patriots, by framing Trump as an enemy of Canadian sovereignty. This from a man whose organization is dedicated to the idea of the total destruction of the nation-state altogether. Trudeau even stated out loud to the NYT that he expected to be the last leader of the nation state of Canada.
Supporters of Carney, or those who at least agree with his position on Trump, began hanging flags in their windows at home, and on vehicles. And now, when one goes by, there is uncertainty. The sense of connection to those sporting the Maple Leaf is gone. The sense of community with people you hadn’t met but you knew had your back is gone.
This is dialectic negation at its most subtle and effective.
And like all dialectics, once you control the symbol, you control the idea it represents.
And now, once again, the Canadian flag is what it was meant to be when Pearson introduced it in 1965. The business card of the Liberal Party of Canada, and of the constant move to collectivization and an all powerful state.
