Free society is finished if we fail to resist this new Dark Age of unreason

Many years ago someone who was not remotely sympathetic to Communism told me that he dreaded the collapse of the Soviet Union because the Cold War balance of threat between the two superpowers was the only thing preventing global chaos. 

In the West where it was legally possible to converse about these things, there was ongoing and very serious discussion of the merits of capitalism and private enterprise vs state ownership of property and a command economy.

We have returned to a Dark Age where reason and actual disputation are considered dangerous: where views contrary to those being imposed by what are often nothing more than activist cults can be criminalised. 

Janet Daley Telegraph 15 May 2021

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/15/free-society-finished-fail-resist-new-dark-age-unreason/