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To: savagesusie
I congratulate you on the insight contained in your reply and on the breadth of your knowledge of the Frankfurt School.

For example, your observation that "Christianity is the antithesis of Marxism/Communism because it is about Individual Rights-—never collective “Rights”" is worth an entire thread itself.

I ask you to apply your analytical mind to the following: when we see the breakdown of culture, let us say the breakdown of marriage, the towering bastardy rates, the consequent ignorance and lack of education, the inevitable brutality and rising crime rates, we naturally react and want to do something about it. The reflexive reaction is to say, if homosexual marriage is breaking down marriage in general, let us pass a law prohibiting homosexual marriage, or prohibiting no-fault divorce etc.

In other words, the reflexive reaction is to enact a statute to control the cultural disintegration. When we do that leftists, who have themselves been thoroughly indoctrinated by the cultural undermining of the Frankfurt school, say we're intruding into their bedroom etc. We come off as Nazis and they come off as enlightened defenders of the individual. They have effectively turned the tables on Christian conservatives.

You have had the great insight to understand that the authors of this disintegration, Gramsci/Adorno/Lukacs, understood that the way to change the way society governs itself is to change the culture and let the laws adapt to the culture. We conservatives are trying to do it the other way round.

We will never win the war until we win the culture.

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14 posted on 08/14/2013 1:19:58 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford; savagesusie
Two of my three favorite poster meet. It's like Christmas morning. (:

Ha! Do I appear to be some sort of creepy FR stalker?

19 posted on 08/14/2013 10:49:40 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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