The IDW (intellectual dark web) started about 3 years ago (full description is below) … three years ago “alternative opinions”, were allowed on such venues as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook … yet since the “pandemic” and the Presidential campaign of 2020 such views are heavily censored and/ or banned altogether … so we now have to find them on the web in less predominate spaces in essence “dig deeper”, on such platforms as bitchute and gab.
There is no “intellectual honesty” anymore, such demands opposing opinions and questioning what is being told to the public as being factual… otherwise information becomes propaganda and nothing more…
I personally have a great deal of faith in God, I did not develop this through a religion, although I am a Catholic … I believe most of the teachings of Catholicism are bullshit and a means of controlling people … not a means of elevating one’s spirituality and faith in God … such comes from searching yourself, from within and doing personal research and reflection … then you can develop a “well formulated consciousness” in regards to a higher being (God) and also self and to your relationship with God …
To me it is the person who is ruled by complacency, who just wants to be lead
and not do their own “homework” be it in religion, science or media … Complacency
cuts across the board, it is not bound by social economic status or education …
Indeed, I have seen more “fire in the gut”, with those who have had the least opportunities
in this world. They want to know both sides, for they do not have a vested interest
in one side or the other, for neither side has provided them with any logic or relief.
The intellectual dark web (IDW) is a loosely-defined informal group of commentators who oppose what they believe to be the dominance of identity politics, political correctness, and cancel culture in higher education and the news media. The term metaphorically compares opposition to mainstream opinion to what is illicitly found on the dark web. Those who have been linked to the movement have come from both the right and left of the political spectrum.
The term "intellectual dark web" was coined by the American venture capitalist Eric Weinstein, who later noted that he was not entirely serious in doing so. It was then popularized in a 2018 New York Times editorial by American opinion writer Bari Weiss.[1] Weiss and others applied the term to a broad range of figures from various parts of the political spectrum, including conservatives such as Ben Shapiro and Douglas Murray, liberals such as Maajid Nawaz and Sam Harris, and feminists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali. It has also been linked to online publications such as the libertarian-leaning Quillette.
These thinkers and publications expressed concern at what they regarded as increasingly authoritarian tendencies within progressive movements in Western countries, namely attempts to censure, fire, or intimidate those expressing views contrary to orthodox progressive views on identity politics, especially within universities and the news media. They often linked these to the growing influence of critical theory and the critical social justice movement—themselves influenced by Marxism and postmodernism—on mainstream progressive thought. These IDW figures regarded such tendencies as a threat to freedom of speech and believed that their growth promoted divisive social tribalism. While sharing common concerns, those labelled part of the IDW diverge on other issues, lacking any leadership or central organization. Given this diversity of thought, the validity of the term has been critiqued by some of those who have been labelled as its members.
Criticism of ideas associated with the IDW has come primarily from progressive and left-wing commentators. These critics have argued that the IDW seeks to intellectually legitimate social inequalities and overstates the harm caused by phenomena such as cancel culture and progressive identity politics. Some progressive critics have also alleged links between the IDW and far-right movements like the alt-right; although various IDW figures have spoken out against far-right politics, there is evidence that YouTube algorithms increasingly push those watching IDW videos towards far-right material
