The recent veneration of bin Laden by the young and ignorant as some sort of oppressed freedom fighter – especially when cast against historical reality – is really something to behold – but it is really nothing new, there have always been contrarians, people who are infected with Opposition Defiant Disorder, people who disagree with anything and everything due to invented reasons.

Some things I have noticed about these folks:

- Their world is inherently binary – there are only two classes of people, either the oppressed or the oppressor.

- By definition, the person named the oppressor is always evil, the oppressed always good.

- The definitions of oppressed and oppressor are quite flexible.

The designation of oppression is critically useful to radicals and revolutionaries because it can be constructed out of anything at any time. It’s so easy to assert, one would think these revolutionaries have perfected one of those Star Trek replicators.

"Tea, Earl Grey, hot,” as Captain Piccard says.

Examples of this "replicator” wisdom is legion. To wit:

Christianity oppresses Islam simply because it exists and competes with Islam. The Muslim Arabs are oppressed because Jews Israelis won’t agree to be peacefully murdered. Capitalism is oppressive because it doesn’t spread wealth according to an equation approved by envious people. Freedom is oppressive because individuals have different ideas about how to exercise it. White people are oppressive because they created Western civilization. Speaking, writing, and reading the English language is oppressive because it has become the dominant the language of Western civilization and not everybody speaks, writes, or reads it. Success is oppressive because there are people who don’t achieve it.

Oppression is also interesting in that it can be self-declared, and by virtue of the very donning of the cloak of oppression, it makes the "oppressed” a noble victim. Even more interesting is that the mere self-designatio n of victimhood (real or imagined) leads to the definition of anyone who claims to be a victim as a "freedom fighter”.

So, the kiddies are buying into the idea that bin Laden was a noble freedom fighter for the Gazans (there are no Palestinians, that is a fiction) because he wrote a letter and the Great Satan (and the nasty Americans who inhabit it) killed him for that. Remember the only sanctioned violence is that perpetrated by the settler colonialists, all other resistance is defined as terrorism to justify the sanctioned violence – or so we are told by a bright TikTok "intellectual”.

To do what the TikTokers want is to ignore half of the letter when Osama, Peanut Butter Upon Him, writes things that are a bit inconvenient to their new found "wisdom”.

Bin Laden was sad "to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind” and to resolve this mosque and state must be unified. He calls for Americans to embrace Islam and sharia law, for women to remove themselves from public and cover up their bodies, get out of the workforce, to stop "your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you… to be a people of manners, principles, honor, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.”

America must admit that it brought the world "AIDS as a Satanic American Invention”, that American "law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy”, that American destroyed the environment, and the "freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only”.

Oh, yeah – Americans drink, take drugs and have too much sex and the Jews needed to be exterminated.

It is illogical and ridiculous that the TikTokers, especially the nubile females who post bikini pics and LGBTQers who promote "alternative lifestyles”, are the ones thinking this letter "has shaken their foundations and completely changed their world view” just by reading it.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised because bin Laden understood the weak, relativistic minds of the West – he was a master propagandist who understood what buzz words the young morons wanted to hear, and he generously populated this letter with them. He understood how, in the hierarchy of the postmodern mind, he could get the young skull filled with mush to focus on the words that confirmed their biases and forget the parts where he wanted them dead if they didn’t comply.

What is interesting is that the letter was roundly condemned in 2002, after 9/11 revealed its true meaning, but now has found a new relevance and respect 20 years later.

I guess it is a pretty good measure of how dumbed down the kiddies have become.

H.L. Mencken wrote that "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

That’s what these kiddies deserve, to let them get what they want, and get it good and hard.

But for the sake of the Western world, we must save them from themselves.