{"id":20457,"date":"2022-05-16T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2022-09-12T13:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:19:52","slug":"interview-avestruz-effect-rod-dreher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/entrevista-efecto-avestruz-rod-dreher\/","title":{"rendered":"<\/b>Rod Dreher<\/b>If we Christians are not willing to suffer, we will disappear\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

Translation of the article into German<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation of the article into English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rod Dreher does not leave indifferent. In his two books -The Benedictine option<\/em> y Living without lies<\/em>both published in Spain by Ediciones Encuentro-, the American journalist and writer warns of the danger of totalitarianism. woke <\/em>and the collapse of Christian civilization. In the interview he gave to The Ostrich Effect <\/em>an initiative of the Catholic Association of Propagandists -, the editor-in-chief of the magazine The American Conservative<\/em> addresses issues such as the dictatorship soft<\/em>The resistance of the martyrs or the cultural battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Living without lies<\/em> stresses that our times resemble the times before the Soviet Union. Isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

- It seemed that way to me, too, six or seven years ago, when I had the idea of writing this book. I came into contact then with people who had emigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union, escaping from communism, and they said that the things they were seeing in the West reminded them of what they had left behind. It seemed exaggerated, but the more I talked to them, the more I became convinced that they were seeing things that escaped me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What were they watching?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

- The birth of a system in which you cannot disagree with ideology woke<\/em> dominant. I see it in my country, and also in Spain, in a way: if you don't agree with gender ideology or critical race theory, you can be cancelled. You can lose your job, your friends or your status. There is no discussion possible, you must accept this ideology to be part of society... and that is totalitarian. Hence the link to Soviet communism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you not consider freedom of expression?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

- On paper, yes, it is guaranteed by our Constitution... but in practice a totalitarian mentality is spreading over all aspects of American life; everything becomes ideological. It is not only a control from the State: the big corporations have become woke<\/em> and are leading much of the process, but also the media, universities, sports... even the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book he points out that this is not \"hard\" totalitarianism, but \"soft\" totalitarianism, soft.<\/em> Does that make it harder to resist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

- Yes, it is. In the past, communist totalitarianism was like the one described by George Orwell <\/strong>at 1984,<\/em> but today's is more like Aldous Huxley<\/strong> y Brave New World.<\/em> We surrender our freedoms in exchange for comfort, entertainment and the assurance that we won't have to face anything that inconveniences us. James Poulos calls it the \"pink police state,\" a therapeutic totalitarianism in which we hate the idea of freedom because it involves taking responsibility for our actions, so we surrender to the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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