John Cleese Clip
Appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society. And we are as a people, inherently and historically, opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it's in my control. And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2300 - Kyle Dunnigan
Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned. No rumor is printed. No secret is revealed. No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny comes understanding. And from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
We've heard a lot about extremism recently, a nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse and bother-boy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents. All right, but what we never hear about extremism is its advantages. Well, the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
The great thing about having enemies is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies, and all the goodness in the whole world is in you. Attractive, isn't it?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
So, if you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway, and you therefore enjoy abusing people, then you can pretend that you're only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons, and that if it wasn't for them, you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time. So, if you want to feel good, become an extremist. Okay. Now you have a choice.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
If you join the hard left, they'll give you their list of authorized enemies. Almost all kinds of authority, especially the police, the city, Americans, judges, multinational corporations, public schools, furriers, newspaper owners, fox hunters, generals, class traitors, and, of course, moderates.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
or if you'd rather be an extremist on the hard right i bet the moderates are in there again noisy minority groups unions russia weirdos demonstrators welfare sponges meddlesome clergy peaceniks the bbc strikers social workers communists and of course Once you're armed with one of these super lists of enemies, you can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behaviors morally justified.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2293 - Chris Williamson
So you can strut around abusing people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth, a fighter for the greater good, and not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are. Seriously. Brilliant.