# Koenig's Eye View From the White House | Koenig's Eye View

## Metadata
- Author: [[watch.org]]
- Full Title: Koenig's Eye View From the White House | Koenig's Eye View
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://www.watch.org/subscribers/koenigs-eye-view/article/73013
## Highlights
- Many postmodernists hold one or more of the following views: (1) there is no objective reality; (2) there is no scientific or historical truth (objective truth); (3) science and technology (and even reason and logic) are not vehicles of human progress but suspect instruments of established power; (4) reason and logic are universally valid. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1387408729/15516910))
- In his literary warning about the fragility of freedom and the allure of totalitarianism, 1984, George Orwell demonstrated that total control over a society is achieved through total control over the information its members can see. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1387408729/15516972))
- The ease with which tens of millions of Americans have accepted irrational, unconstitutional and unprecedented police state-type restrictions on their freedoms, including even the freedom to make a living, has been, to understate the case, sobering ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1387408729/15517034))
- Half of America, the non-left half, is afraid to speak their minds at virtually every university, movie studio and large corporation — indeed, at virtually every place of work. Professors who say anything that offends the left fear being ostracized if they have tenure and being fired if they do not. People are socially ostracized, publicly shamed and/or fired for differing with Black Lives Matter, as America-hating and white-hating a group as has ever existed. And few Americans speak up. On the contrary, when BLM protestors demand that diners outside of restaurants raise their fists to show their support of BLM, nearly every diner does. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1387408729/15517046))