The absolutely brilliant writer and freethinker Walter Kirn, author of acclaimed novels such as Up in The Air (which was, of course, adapted into a feature film starring George Clooney), has been making the rounds as of late and boy has he been dropping based knowledge. When, in the summer of 2020, Bret Easton Ellis asked Kirn if he had lost any friends since the election of Trump in 2016, Kirn answered as such:

Dude, I have lost so many friends, and I have made so many enemies. I was a controversial book reviewer at a time when books mattered. Well, I’ll tell you what – it was nothing compared to not condemning Trump sufficiently. Insufficient condemnation of Trump has gotten me in more trouble than anything in my life. [But] the last shall be first. The fact is that the people who have insufficiently condemned Trump and the intellectual class that has simply found Trumpism interesting or populism somewhat refreshing, given the establishment corporate politics that we’ve been fed for the last thirty years, that class is going to be proved right because the truth is that the totalitarian, corporate gag order get-your-vaccine model of complete control that they are trying to shove down our throats right now is going to be vomited up by an America that still hasn’t changed sufficiently to go down with that.

Any freethinking American with a functioning brain can relate to this sentiment. Thankfully, Kirn continues to speak his mind (a truly brave and courageous act in our post-America), and, this past week, he finally sat down with Tucker Carlson for a breathtaking conversation on Tucker Carlson Today. Tucker, like any non-moron, remains endlessly fixated on the so-called “creative class” (LOL) collaborators that have given up any semblance of dignity and violated all their professed principles (for nothing, mind you) in order to lead the censorship charge, so he asked Kirn why so few artists have spoken out like Kirn over the years given that “a free society is a prerequisite for art and creativity”. Kirn’s response? Nothing short of incredible.

Tucker, nothing baffles me more than the silence of the American ‘intellectual’ and ‘artist’ over what are clearly trends towards autocratic, centralized, and detailed control of the individual and the free mind and conscience. I can only guess that the careerism in the arts, the need to please universities, fellowship and sort of charitable granting organizations and so on is so great that they are stunned into silence. You know the arts are in some way supported by foundation government money and university money and those are all sources that are very ideologically sensitive and to offend them is very easy. So that’s the only way I can account for it because we all read the same books, we were all given the same warnings, and we all, I think, value expression, creativity, and the imagination which cannot function in any healthy way in an atmosphere of fear and control.

If history teaches us anything it is that Kirn is indeed correct when it comes to the inevitable fate of those who have traded in freedom of thought and freedom of expression for a form of demented, disingenuous morality that allows them to bully and crush those that dissent from our failed Globalist American Empire regime. These cowardly useful idiots, in the end, will ultimately be the first to ‘go’.

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