"Hungarian George" quits RBN

[RoaminLam]

[This was posted on the RBN website, 5 Feb '10, under the link "No refuting ... the Soviet Story." It may interest some listeners of RBN.]

Personally, I found "Hungarian George" to be an insufferable windbag, so pompous and full of himself that I had to turn off the show whenever he came on, however tolerable I normally found the program hosts. Moreover – whether he did so out of malicious intent or just a garden-variety befuddlement – his advocacy of Nazi-style totalitarianism injected a sadly alluring corruption into the present universe of discourse.

Many, especially the more youthful among us, lack the discernment to recognize a timeworn and treacherous dialectic at play in our reviewing of the Nazi-Soviet war. As it's become fashionable in these circles to focus on the savagery of Judeo-Soviet Communism, many have fallen into the trap of embracing its Hitlerian ersatz alternative, most likely because the Nazis railed so loudly against the Jews, because they rubbed out so many of them, and because the lurid vortex of WW II in Europe swirled around battlefields contested by the Germans and the Soviets.

On some level, it seems plausible that this malignant meme has been sown among us by the elites, who so diabolically manipulate the matrix of our perceptions and understanding. On another level, and much more broadly, it's been picked up on and passed along by well-intentioned "useful idiots," acquiring thereby an added force of legitimacy. Many of us by now, veterans of the skeptics movement, understand the mechanisms of this process, and the malevolence at its source.

As far as "Hungarian George" is concerned, he almost certainly qualifies as deluded rather than demonic. His "emotional imbalance" [-John Stadtmiller] runs parallel to a mind and spirit that are similarly out of kilter. Good riddance –-and all compassion -- to him.

But inquiry then elevates to examine the responsibility, and intent, driving RBN itself. We deserve better than what you've given us in Old George. More than a few of us, I suspect, don't like having to pick through toxic chaff for the grains of wheat that he (and others like him) offer. Nor does it augur well for our cause to hear so many of our colleagues choking on the chaff ... while Babylon is burning all around.

More and more Americans, across the spectrum, are awakening to how we've been subverted by our established leaders and institutions. We live in a fractal universe. Those of us who wield the cutting edge of political and spiritual knowledge, far from the mainstream, or seek it out in forums like RBN, must learn to apply this same awakening skepticism to the leaders and institutions that so loudly bill themselves as "alternative." All too often, both simple human error and unadulterated fraudulence – much as we might wish otherwise – inhabit the critique as much as they imbue the object of its criticism.