The Open Society and the Closed Society.

Multibillionaire George Soros has recently advocated the "open society" as his vision for the future of the West.  This is an idea originally expounded by the philosopher of science Karl Popper who maintained that unlimited free inquiry was best for the development of science.  Popper chiefly used this to argue against others such as Plato and Hegel who he claimed were totalitarian advocates of a closed society.  The founders of the internet also advocate this idea and when Jeff Bezos the founder of amazon.com recently said that the goal of his company was to "let the truth out" this idea may be seen expressed.  Essentially this is the idea for the Enlightenment notion of free speech which was allowed for as a means to criticize a totalitarian government.  However, let us take a look at what this notion of unlimited free speech entails.

Originally to Enlightenment philosophers and to the authors of the U.S. Constitution the notion of free speech was meant to allow a free press to criticize the government and advocate for any sort of other government.  However, free speech came to take on different meanings when the Supreme Court allowed pornographers the "free speech right" to publish their filth.  Unlimited "free speech" has proven another thing entirely and we are seeing the disastrous consequences of it.  People no longer maintain a private self (the ultimate fulfillment of the open society advocated by the evil billionaire Soros).  Private comportment now becomes public comportment and gross violations of privacy are not only maintained but encouraged thanks to the internet which intrudes upon privacy and violates the  sanctity of the individual in all respects.  Further, genuine knowledge is replaced by useless "information" which has a high entropy content.  This marks the true decline of civilized society and the decay of humanity.  We can see why an evil madman like Soros would revel in such a thing and I find it interesting to note that he is an atheist meaning that he thinks it all is meaningless anyway.