[robowombat]

A programme on BBC Four challenges that particular piece of received wisdom. Called ‘I Hate the Sixties’, it claims that the decade’s moral permissiveness, collapse of respect for institutions and failed experiments in 'progressive' education led directly to the difficulties we face today.

[2banana]

This could have been easily written about the USA.

And liberals wonder why the nation wept when RWR was buried...

[Alia]

Thanks for posting this superb article. Obviously, the 60's die-hards have reached.... their... PETER PRINCIPLE. lol.

[wingnutx]

I hope that is available on DVD.

[Alia]

Thanks for posting this superb article. Obviously, the 60's die-hards have reached.... their... PETER PRINCIPLE. lol.

[livius]

Good article! I hate the Sixties, too, more every day when I consider their impact.

[Tolik]

Melanie Phillips: (brilliant article, defies excerption, just this small one describing the work of a virus)

Gramsci’s revolutionary aims have been accomplished to the letter. The intellectual class was overwhelmingly captured. The moral codes of society were profoundly subverted and weakened as all the barriers fell. Previously marginalised groups, such as never-married mothers or gay people, now became the arbiters of morality which was defined in their ‘non-judgmental’ image in order to spare their feelings.

...And what started out as an eminently decent impulse for tolerance turned into something quite different. Because there was now an absolute taboo against hurting people’s feelings, the very idea of normal behaviour had to be abolished so that no-one would feel abnormal.

Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !

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[vanmorrison]

As the author of this thought provoking article reminds us, there were many people during the "Swingin' Sixties" who warned about the dangers of the destructive social trends, but who were roundly ignored. St. Augustine, in "The City of God", outlines in great detail how a similar social order, the decadent, degenerate, and cruel Roman Empire, collapsed into the dark night of anarchy and dissolution. Augustine's observations could readily be applied to our own "civilization" today.

...And JohnEffinKerry is ahead in the polls!

[Agnes Heep]

If plumbers worked like leftists we'd have water coming out of the light fixtures. And what's more, they'd think it was normal.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[lepton]

bookmark bump

[aculeus]

Good one.