Posted on 04/26/2024 11:11:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is a long and ugly road, and there may be no turning back.
We have come a long way — and all in the wrong direction, from religion being protected to being penalized.
How did this happen? A reading of Christopher Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution is most insightful.
Rufo begins by describing a person, totally unknown to me, by the name of Herbert Marcuse, who is behind the cultural revolution that has gripped America since 1967. Marcuse was convinced that America had become a repressive, intolerant society that promised freedom of conscience, speech, and assembly while depriving citizens of the mechanism for making those rights meaningful.
Eventually, Marcuse’s writing became the blueprint for the “New Left,” as the new proletariat substituted race for class in preparation of the revolution, which became an instant success.
The next phase of the revolution became known as the “Long March” through America’s institutions. What began at the university and college level spread like wildfire and came to encompass virtually all of society, including the corporate and media world, reaching the pivotal conquest of The New York Times.
Even bureaucrats working in government agencies, unions, and the military have now come under the sway of CRT and DIE as the new ideological philosophy driving our institutions. Because the long march was subtle, it also went unnoticed.
After capturing the various institutions enumerated above, the long march began to infect the state. Grant-making in education, humanities, sciences — i.e., the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts — also became infected. This was happening while I was a Board of Advisers member of the state of Georgia’s Museum of Art. Though I knew we could use the money, I was opposed to the concept because I knew that tax money was being used...
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I have watched the march through the institutions happening since the late 1970’s, though I didn’t put the pieces together in my head until later. The left was at it long before I saw things that I was old enough to notice, and it accelerates every year. I don’t know if there is a civil way to get back our basic liberties today.
"Grew like Topsy" is a reference to Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a book few have read over the last century. It's not that great a book, but it started the Civil War, as Lincoln said when he met Mrs. Stowe.
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Just wait for these morons to arm themselves. The cops are going to be slaughtered.
Naziism and islam-love lie deeply buried in the American psyche included the desire to self-destruct.
Marcus was a part of the frankfurt school that hitler expelled from germany in the 1930’s. their followers like Marcus came to universities like berkeley in the west and columbia in the east. they practiced something called critical theory. the basic idea of critical theory was to undermine and ultimately collapse every institution in the west—including the institution of marriage—so that the state would enjoy complete and unfettered control.
It was another member of the frankfurt school— A man by the name of Adorno who engineered a world famous slight of hand in the early 1950’s. In that slight of hand the nazi were transferred from being another leftist organization like the communists—to being another conservative organization on the far right.
This slight of hand took advantage of jewish grievances and suspicion over the events of the mccarthy era.
For the decades prior to the 1950’s the nazis and the communists were considered to both be leftist organization with the nazis being left and the communists being further left.
The New York Times picked up on Adorno’s category shift and that became the stamp of American politics ever since. That basically morally hobbled the republican party.
In the 1990’s a Harvard professor invented critical race theory which is an extension of critical theory —designed to do the same thing as adorno’s nazi slight of hand—only this time playing on historical black american grievances.
The rest is history.
My right to protest is meaningless unless my protest ends up with me as dictator.
THERE WAS ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM - THE OWNERSHIP OF INDUSTRY. AMAZING,EVERYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK RACE IN THIS COUNTRY WAS AT THE HANDS OF DEMOCRATS!
What’s most notable in the objective realm is the extent of low IQ involved.
I’m not talking about people who were influenced or mind controlled by Marcuse. I’m talking about Marcuse himself, those who conspired with him and those who continue his crimes.
Marcuse was the one attributed to the phrase “Make Love Not War”.
Marcuse, Adorno, Horkheimer, et al formed the “Institute For Social Research” in Frankfurt, Germany. You Know Who kicked them out, and they were allowed to set up shop at places like Columbia and deah old Hahvahd.
They repaid their new home by trying to destroy it. Since the 1930s, not the 1960s.
Adorno wrote “The Authoritarian Mind” in the 1950s, we studied it and “Critical theory” when I was studying at university.
It certainly didn’t have the intended effect on me, I suspect. A little older and wiser, I immediately realized he wasn’t describing “conservatives”; but precisely nailed down the whack job progressives that I knew. To a man, they were deeply resentful or jealous of success, and exhibited an unhealthy and undeniable “control freak” mindset.
Nothing I have seen since in the ensuing decades has persuaded me that my initial assessment was mistaken, no, only reinforced tenfold.
I was in ROTC during that period, and our slogan was, "Make love and war."
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