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To: GeronL
... Huxley was right on the money

Huxley was describing The Frankfurt School and Gramsci's cultural marxism which has been extraordinarily successful.

Orwell's Brave New World treatment is reserved for those who resist. Huxley and Orwells visions are sort of a good cop / bad cop duo.

Both men were prescient.
11 posted on 03/06/2012 1:38:23 PM PST by khelus
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To: khelus

Huxley saw that they would encourage sexual immorality as a sort of bread and circuses distraction and they have.


13 posted on 03/06/2012 1:54:21 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: khelus; Quix

Herbert London refutes White’s proposition by observing, “...if history is largely invention, who can say with authority that the American Revolution came before the French Revolution?” He observes that evidence has takmen a back seat to inventiveness. He thus cuts right to the chase — the inventions of postmodernism, which are cutting successive generations of Americans off from their culture and their history, evolved directly from the ‘cultural Marxist’ scholars of the Frankfurt School.
How did this situation come about in America’s universities? Gertrude Himmelfarb has observed [14] that it slipped past those traditional academics almost unobserved until it was too late. It occurred so ‘quietly’ that when they ‘looked up,’ postmodernism was upon them with a vengeance. “They were surrounded by a tidal wave of faddish multicultural subjects such as radical feminism, deconstructed relativism as history and other courses” which undermine the perpetuation of Western Civilization. “

There you are. I was in college in the early to mid 1970’s,
and I saw the transformation first hand. It was ugly then, now it is lost.


24 posted on 03/06/2012 2:58:18 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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