After his first episode topped 100 million views, Tucker Carlson is back with Episode 2, exploring how we, as a population, are controlled (or coerced) directly (through laws) or indirectly (through taboos).
Carlson observes the changing societal taboos in America, suggesting that they are being dictated from above rather than evolving organically, focusing explicitly on the shift in attitudes towards race-based attacks, adultery in politics, and child molestation.
“Let’s say you wanted to control a country,” the former Fox News man begins rather joltingly.
“Well,” he explains “you’d want to make sure you had the complete obedience of everybody within your borders who was authorized to use deadly force… you’d start with the military… [and other agencies] like the IRS.”
“Controlling the guns would be a top priority for you if ever wanted to go dictatorial.”
But, Carlson, asks, what if you wanted more, not simply to control people’s behavior, “but to control how they think.”
“In that case,” he remarks, “you’d need to take charge of its taboos.”
A taboo is something that by popular consensus is not allowed, it is not illegal, but it doesn’t need to be.
“Over time, social prohibitions are more powerful and more enduring than laws.”
Until fairly recently, Tucker points out that it was taboo in this country to attack people on the basis of their race, but he notes “apparently we no longer believe that – punishing people on the basis of their skin color is not only permitted in modern America, it is mandatory… as long as the victims are white.”
He questions the definition and scope of white supremacy as described by President Joe Biden and expresses concerns about the blurred lines of crime, the erosion of defined legal codes, and the need to protect societal taboos as guiding moral principles.
Which brings Carlson to this week’s horrific WSJ expose of Instagram’s kiddie-porn rings which he notes has resulted in exactly nothing as “one of the largest circulation newspapers in the world reported that one of the world’s most influential companies was promoting pedophilia and nobody in power did anything about it.”
BREAKING: Instagram algorithm exposed promoting pedophile networks in massive investigation, video sales, ‘preteensex’ menus, in-person meetups with underage boys and girls, using emojis such as a map and cheese pizza – WSJ
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) June 7, 2023
As Carlson notes, “The people who run this country no longer see child molesters as the worst among us”
In fact, he continues, “what we are allowed to dislike is being dictated to us from above, sometimes by force.”
The trick, that has happened slowly and then all at one, is that “when a crime has no definition, anyone can be guilty of it”
“Don’t let them rationalize away your intuitive moral sense.”
“Cling to your taboos like you life depends on them… because it does.”
Watch the full Tucker On Twitter episode below:
Ep. 2 Cling to your taboos! pic.twitter.com/45AeVdtwOu
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 8, 2023
Tyler Durden
Thu, 06/08/2023 – 19:34
