Ask yourself why Nazism won in Germany. Same thing.
If it wasn’t for the internet, Wokeness would have won during the Obama years.
The Frankfurt school has so far succeeded in replacing critical thinking with critical theory.
Each person has his or her own energy field.
The question is will that energy field be nurtured
And grow into individually expressed accomplishment
Or be controlled and directed by the madness of a group.
My whole life I was told it was important to learn to think for myself.
Now it seems as if the children are told to think like the group.
In a society, when an individual goes haywire, being but one, the damage
Is necessarily limited. But when a group goes haywire, the damage can be
Incalculable..
A group can only advance an agenda, i.e. the taking and control of others.
An individual can advance fantastic discoveries in all the arts and sciences.
America was designed to allow individuals to flourish through protecting their inalienable rights to speech, arms, religion, and association. Civil society was to be protected from the adverse actions of groups by the multiplicity of factions And the carefully structured division and limitation of powers in a federal constitutional order.
Something seems to have gone awry.
Gee Andrew, look in the mirror. The destruction of almost two millennia of morality required for you to marry your buddy has left an immense vacuum that schools had to fill with something, they just filled it with the ‘critical theory’ that helped you. Only God knows if this is part of the ultimate plan, but it looks awful from down here doesn’t it Mr. Sullivan?
As the underpinnings of the Left have repeatedly been shown to be false, those who became accolytes of the Left had to create new premises to shore up their faith. The premises have become increasingly distanced from reality.
A relatively small number of committed "progressives" in the media, academia, education and politics control most of the information flow, especially to Leftists. Thus, first the idea that Marxism would come from a revolution of the workers was discredited.
Then the idea that Marxism would be more productive than capitalism was discredited.
Then the idea that workers under Marxism would be better off than under capitalism was discredited.
Then the shift was that capitalism had a greater range between the wealthy and the poor was put forward as the reason to level all with Leftisim... except Leftist societies had an even greater gap between the Leftist rulers and the mass of poor workers. (Consider Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba).
So the Left's reason for being has devolved into Identity politics and critical race theory. It is irrational and unprovable. Those are its virtues.
Theauthor should not be surprised. It didn’t happen quickly. It started with the Frankfurt School in 1923. In 1933, the Marxist professors left Germany and took up residence at Columbia University. It was their stated mission to corrupt every institution in the US. They knew they would be long gone before their goals were achieved. But they have succeeded.
YOU MUST KNOW YOUR ENEMY BEFORE YOU CAN DEFEAT THEM. This has been a long WAR OF CULTURAL MARXISM. It must be pulled out by the roots. Radical solution to a radical infestation. It took almost 100 years to get to this point. Let’s pray it doesn’t take 100 years to flush it down the drain.
The more dumbed down people are, the easier it is to control them. How many people do you run in to that cannot read, write, or speak good english? Or do simple math?
Why? Because “wokeness” is the latest manifestation of liberal mainline Protestantism that has its roots in Puritanism. It’s Christianity without Christ gone hog wild.
because
postmodernism = subjectivism
subjectivism = relativism + emotionalism
relativism + emotionalism = anything goes
Democrats and Soros. Any other questions?
Most humans need a “purpose” larger than themselves ... especially when they’re bored from being locked away or restricted from normal social interaction by their local tyrant (governor; mayor; unelected bureaucrat) or when they’re frightened (again the result of the deliberate actions of politicians and, of course, “The Experts”). And since many have turned away from religion, “saving the planet” and “stopping systemic racism” become their “special purpose” in life (or in Toobin’s case his “special purpose” takes on a whole new meaning ... like Steve Martin’s in “The Jerk”)
It’s not succeeding, it is failing bigtime and it’s emptiness is being exposed for all to see. The pseudo-elites are trying to shove it down our throats by convincing us it is everywhere, but it’s not working. It’s an “Emperor Has No Clothes” thing.
Until Trump’s hostile takeover of the GOP there was no opposition party.
Bush League Republicans are Democrats in disguise.
Its the result of obama’s education policies for 8 years.
Why if Meth destroys so many lives is it so popular?
Why if adultery destroys so many families...
Why if Satan is so evil do for flock to him?
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March through the institutions. Liberals took over academic programs and then made it mandatory to agree to far-left values to get hired in academia OR be admitted to a college of education, social work or medicine.
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/
Note that is from 2012, and things have only gotten worse.
One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/11/08/college-administrators-are-more-liberal-other-groups-including-faculty-members
Sullivan isn’t so much talking about the militant woke vanguard, as about corporate leaders and affluent Whites who do anything to appease the woke crowd. It’s fear on the part of the corporate bigwigs, and boredom and restlessness for other affluent, suburban Americans. They want to be seen as “doing good,” and so they pick up the radicals’ slogans.
He just noticed?