Reddit mentions of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

Noam Chomsky is the author of Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, and countless others.

Naomi Wolf is the author of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, and others.

Chris Hedges is the author of "Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You", The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress, Death of the Liberal Class, and others

Daniel Ellsberg @ http://www.ellsberg.net/articles

Cornel West @ http://www.cornelwest.com/

Birgitta Jónsdóttir's website & twitter

Alexa O'Brien's website & twitter

Kai Wargalla's twitter account.

Tangerine Bolen @ RevolutionTruth; website & twitter

In The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, published in 2007, Naomi Wolf talks about the ongoing "fascist shift" in America. Things like this and the NSA "revelations" (quotation marks used because, while we knew about it from the likes of Binney, we hadn't seen any official documents until the Snowden leaks) are examples of what a fascist shift looks like.

At one point, while I was reading today, I came across the phrase, "Spying is the fuel of fascism." It may sound alarmist, but she gives historical examples from 1920s Italy, 1920s-30s Germany, etc., and she's dead on. Depending upon what you use as your litmus test, we are either swiftly descending into global fascism or already there.

OK. Here it is in shorter sentences with annotations:

You have no real concept of the history of tyranny? (How does tyranny tend to develop in a once free society from a historical context?)

You have no real concept of how tyranny has been able to destroy liberty?
(What are the necessary mechanical underpinnings of tyranny and how does a state implement them? I recommend The End of America by Naomi WolfBook;Film (for free)

Of course the question that is then begged is: How do a free people retain their freedoms in an expanding police state?

read this book written by a conservative judge spelling out exactly how the Bush administration was shredding the Constitution and the people went along with it. .. then look at how much of that (The Patriot Act for example) has changed since the Democrats got the majority in Congress and the white house. ....

Here's another book written during the Bush administration.. same thing.. read it and see how much of it still applies today.

That will help you understand why Ron Paul Republicans are so upset with the government. Other Republicans?? Who knows...

well you may have to actually do some learning, but here you go: http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot – Naomi Wolf, 2007

Naomi published the roadmap for us a decade ago. It's 100% relevant today.

Let the Right One In

The Irony of American History (rereading/skimming for quotes technically)

The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (sample)

Never saw the movie, but it was a really amazing book. This is the book that got me back into reading, she does an amazing job covering a large amount of data but without wasting any time. My only complaint is I wish it was longer.

The End of Liberty just came out recently... if you aren't aware of America's heavy handed use of law enforcement (throwing a kid in jail for eating a friend's chicken nuggets, fines for using rainwater that falls on your property, etc.), it'll really be an eye opener.

You bring up a very interesting idea. Peterson does seem to focus almost all of his energy on the importance of speech and how lack of value leads to totalitarianism without noting the other roads. Naomi Wolf, more or less reasonable but still quirky feminist, wrote a really good book a decade or so ago on the ten points of fascism with pretty good documentation: The End of America. She has a chapter on restricting the press, but not really any big points on language itself -- although this was before the whole gender pronoun issue took real force.

I don't think this invalidates Peterson's points, though, because he's looking in a deeper almost sort of metaphysical direction when it comes to language. I think his main concern, though, goes with the legal enforcement of language, and only secondarily with the nihilistic undertones of the language itself. He has no problems with people saying whatever nonsense they want about themselves. And I think when we see that he's emphasizing this legal aspect, then it's more clear how he's really pointing out a danger that has a historical precedent: set up a law vague enough and it'll only increase the odds of much worse stuff getting put into it.

But you're totally right: he doesn't see the elephants that are already in the room with regard to the awful fascistic seeds that have already sprouted in America and Western society generally. That is a little odd.

Related (and required) reading.

i believe this book is relevant to this discussion.
http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299188217&sr=8-1

It's all part of the strategy to consolidate power at the top. Step X: use laws to infringe rights of those that most society will not care about. (I paraphrase).

https://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797

I recommend that you check out this book. You may be surprised to know that there are American citizens in detention in Guantanamo Bay. Among approximately 500 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, only 10 have been tried by the Guantanamo military commission, but all cases have been stayed pending the adjustments being made to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.

You or I will not end up in indefinite detention. The issue is that anyone does. You'll see that what I was originally saying is Obama's personable nature doesn't mean he won't ruin lives -- just like W. Bush.

Naomi Wolf predicted this.

Is it fascism yet?

http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1302608162&sr=8-1

Naomi Wolf might disagree: http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797