"The point is that courts are ill-equipped to deal with people like Alex Jones"
Is that true though? Wouldn't any normal person have already run afoul of countless rules that would have them held in contempt and thrown in jail on that basis if nothing else? isn't everyone just going easy on Jones and his people because of how crazy they are and no one can be bothered dealing with the drama?
"But they don’t solve the problem. America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us."
More than that personally I would say Jones is not even that big of a deal. Stripped down to it's fundamentals I think all that Jones is doing is making what's called arbitrary assertions. Or put more colloquially, he is just making s@#t up. But how is that different to any priest in any church and the like?
The lingua franca of the Eastern empire at the time of Jesus and Tiberius, Pilate etc, was Greek. This is why Paul's epistles are in Greek (he was a near-contemporary of Jesus, and a Roman citizen.) If Pilate and Jesus had a common tongue, it would probably have been Greek.
America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.
A chicken/egg problem I think, if demagogues did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.
"The point is that courts are ill-equipped to deal with people like Alex Jones"
Is that true though? Wouldn't any normal person have already run afoul of countless rules that would have them held in contempt and thrown in jail on that basis if nothing else? isn't everyone just going easy on Jones and his people because of how crazy they are and no one can be bothered dealing with the drama?
"But they don’t solve the problem. America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us."
More than that personally I would say Jones is not even that big of a deal. Stripped down to it's fundamentals I think all that Jones is doing is making what's called arbitrary assertions. Or put more colloquially, he is just making s@#t up. But how is that different to any priest in any church and the like?
The lingua franca of the Eastern empire at the time of Jesus and Tiberius, Pilate etc, was Greek. This is why Paul's epistles are in Greek (he was a near-contemporary of Jesus, and a Roman citizen.) If Pilate and Jesus had a common tongue, it would probably have been Greek.