My Thoughts on Jack Ryan, Season 2
The entry premise of Jack Ryan season 2 is that the
President of Venezuela is a dick, and that his opposition, the lady running
against him in the upcoming election, is their savior.
Jack, in the first scene of the show, implies that the
President of Venezuela is President Trump, and that the opposition is vaguely
running on a social justice platform. The irony, and frankly big lie about this
setup and framing is that historically the authoritarianism of socialism and
communism is itself the birthplace of modern social justice, not to mention
fascism, which they try to hang around the neck of Trump. Ironic, since it was
Communist China and Communist Russia, and now Socialist Venezuela which are
most authoritarian and fascist, dictating with thought police precision what
narrative “the people” are to buy into, and which thoughts and narratives are
not allowed to even be written about, let alone talked about.
Once, while in Mainland China and seeking to understand the
culture and Chinese history better I read a book called China in Ten Words. The
author wrote about his and his families experiences under Mao’s regime and
rein, although not expressly focused on Mao himself. Simply, the book was an
expression of how the author and the people around him during his formative
years and young adulthood experienced ten different important aspects of China
culture and way of doing and thinking about reality.
I used the book in a course I began to teach to graduate
students at a social sciences university in Beijing, but during my research to
use the book in the classroom discovered the book had been band. Foolishly, I
decided to risk using it anyways. Unfortunately, my students posted a copy of
the ebook to a group chat that was monitored by the Chinese government, and I
was subsequently fired, apparently because I had used that book.
Did the book specifically seek to denigrate the Chinese
government? No, at least I don’t think so. What it did was tell the truth about
how things were during some times where the socialist and communist government of
China made mistakes. Basically, the truth ran counter narrative to the version
of reality that the Chinese Communist government built and is trying to
maintain.
The writers and producers of the newest season of Jack Ryan
season 2 are like the Chinese Communist government. They have seen the
narrative coming out of modern day Venezuela, and the fact that it’s a socialist
regime, and don’t like the truth. Venezuelans I met in China while I lived
there told me people were having a hard time getting toilet tissue, transferring
money, troubles with getting food, and were having a terrible time of life
there. So the brazen narrative that a Trump straw-man, according to the show the
president of Venezuela, being the reason Venezuela is in trouble, and
portraying a candidate of social justice, or put another way, socialism and
communism, as the savior of the nation and its people is not only insulting,
but a big lie on its face. It’s an attempt to cover the real reasons things aren’t
going well in Venezuela, and to sell a narrative that the left have a hard time
believing; The Left’s way of thinking and policies of social justice by fiat,
deception, socialism, and communism, destroy nations and people and are in
direct antithesis to reality and the truth.
I’m sad to see Jack Ryan season two go the way of lying to
its watchers, and spreading a narrative which controverts the last 100 years of
history and indirectly tramples on the graves of the babies who were eaten by
their parents under socialist and communist regimes, the forced sterilizations
of mothers under the Chinese Communist regime, and the tens of millions who
were murdered and starved to death as a result of the very way of thinking the
writers and producers of Jack Ryan are using. The underlying philosophy is the
same, as Jordan Peterson has said. It is one of identity politics, political
victim identity, and seeking after power, rhetorical, political, and
ultimately, power to tell people what they can and cannot think, say, and do.
It is an attack on reality, truth, and freedom, and the writers and producers
of Jack Ryan season 2 ought to be ashamed of themselves. But I’m sure the
self-righteousness of those of their ilk will keep them firmly ensconced in a
narrative which gives them permission to keep lying.
