Vale Charlie Kirk

Someone shot Charlie Kirk as he was speaking at one of his trademark Turning Point college campus question and answer events. To say he was gunned down like a dog in the street is a tired yet apt metaphor. He died within sight of his wife and two young children. You’ll probably read a lot in the media about who Charlie was and what he stood for. Some will be true, some will be hyperbole, some will be outright lies. What everyone should do, before they make any conclusions about who Charlie Kirk was, is listen to Charlie Kirk at one of his many college debates, or even in conversation with Gavin Newsom. If you are brave enough, to step out of your cultural comfort zone where your moral and ethical authority is established, you’ll likely find that Charlie Kirk was not who you thought. It turns out, that most people are seldom one thing or the other. No-one is all good nor all evil. Even Trump, who the left continues to call Hitler (the epitaph has long since lost any meaning and is now merely a slur from people who are unable to make a coherent argument), is not all evil.

Life is complicated and simple solutions suit only simple people. It is your right to go through life as a simple person with concrete black and white ideas. It is certainly easier and you do not need to confront the demons that dwell within your own heart – after all are you completely blameless in this life? What you are not free to do is pontificate on something or someone when your entire knowledge base comes from what the nice woman on the ABC told you to believe. You have a right to an opinion but we have a right to dismiss it out of hand if it is obvious that you have never looked beneath the cover.

Charlie Kirk gave hope to a generation of youth brow-beaten by the far left into believing that everything in their world was hopeless and damaged. From global warming to racism, sexism, and all the other myriad social justice issues, the youth of our world are bombarded by the left with the certain message that they are living in the worst of times and the future is apt to be no better than and very likely much worse. This is the burden that the symbolic capitalists have put upon our youth to raise their own status. It is evil and it is wrong. In the west, we live in the best conditions that the world has ever known. We are richer, freer, healthier and more educated than any civilisation that has come before us. We can be better. Humans are the most adaptable species ever to have inhabited our world. Despite our outrageous stupidity at times, we are colossally intelligent, we can and we will make our world better for every single living creature, but we cannot do that without hope and Charlie Kirk gave young people a vision of the future that spurs them to rise up and create that great new world. Rest in peace, Charlie, may god be with you and yours.