IN Philip K. Dick’s 1956 novella, The Minority Report, a section of the police department known as ‘Precrime’ has developed the ability to travel back in time and arrest a suspect before he or she engages in some form of criminal activity. To a certain extent, we are now seeing this outing in science fiction come true in the way that Facebook has banned people for items that were posted in the dim and distant past. They are not capable of preventing the ‘crime’ itself being committed, of course, but they can certainly punish people for their past actions.

If one considers the manner in which moral relativism is applied to the behaviour found in other cultures and civilisations, i.e. that what is ‘right’ for one set of people may well be ‘wrong’ for another, we find that the globalists often ignore this value system and trample over the self-determination of others in the name of so-called ‘democracy’. However, the fact that Facebook is criminalising posts that were inoffensive and perhaps even amusing several years ago, means that the kind of moral relativism that is so readily disregarded in relation to those countries which do not conform to Western standards is also being ignored right here in the belly of the Beast.

Personally, although I believe in a single truth I also choose to respect the ‘truths’ of others and would ask them to treat me in the same fashion. What is even more concerning, on the other hand, is the ability of a social media platform to transform itself into a twenty-first century version of ‘Precrime’ and vilify the past in accordance with the prevailing ‘cancel culture’ of the modern Left. This, from a corporation that has become a leading purveyor of capitalism, tells us a great deal about the wild-eyed iconoclasm of the Left over the last few years and what is really driving it.