Death fears of the Boomer Left

American Thinker ^ | September 21, 2007 | James Lewis

[CitizenUSA]

Excellent analysis of the Boomer Left mentality. As a Boomer myself, it irks me that the hippies and flower children have mostly defined my generation, even though there are many staunch Boomer conservatives.

“But last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee kept on swerving into black comedy when Democrats reminded him that people die in war.”

Did the Dems actually do this?!? If so, it’s probably the most amazing bit of news I heard this week. Can you imagine? Unbelievable.

Thanks, neverdem!

[nathanbedford]

More from Dr. Atkinson's essay:

The Frankfurt School had devised the concept of designating the opponents of the Marxist social revolution as 'authoritarian characters.' According to available accounts,28 "..there was a meeting of American scholars at a conference on religious and racial prejudice in 1944. Over the next five years, a Frankfurt School team under the direction of Max Horkheimer conducted in depth social and psychological profiles of Americans under a project entitled 'Studies of Prejudice.' One of the results was a book entitled 'The Authoritarian Personality' by Theodor Adorno, et al, that summarized one of the largest public opinion surveys ever undertaken in the United States. It was published in 1950, and conformed to the original Critical Theory in every respect. As a document which testified to the belief system of the Frankfurt School revolutionaries, it was essentially anti-God, anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-nationalist, anti-patriot, anti-conservative, anti-hereditarian, anti ethnocentric, anti-masculine, anti-tradition, and anti-morality. All of these are elements inherent in Critical Theory."

Since the 1940s, subtle changes appeared in the Frankfurt School's descriptions of their work. For example, the opposite of the 'authoritarian personality' was no longer the 'revolutionary,' as it had been in previous studies aimed at Europeans. In America, it was now the 'democratic' who opposed the 'authoritarian personality.' Thus, their language matched more closely the liberal29 "...New Deal rather than Marxist or radical.." language. Education for tolerance, rather than praxis for revolutionary change, was the ostensible goal of their research. They were cleverly merging their language with the mainstream of liberal left thought in America while maintaining their 'cultural Marxist' objectives.

[eyedigress]

Bump!

[IronJack]

The Grateful Dead are looking a lot less grateful than they used to

And a lot more dead ...

[Frank_2001]

Well stated!

[lapster]

Great article codifying thoughts that need to be expressed. As a Baby Boomer, I readily concede that we are, indeed, America’s worst generation. Selfish. Whining. Spineless. And thoroughly incapably of maintaining moral rectitude. Our daddies and mommies taught us that we were always right, we could do no wrong, and we deserved whatever we wanted. In short, we are a generation of Bill Clintons. And the world is all the worse for it.

Now, before some of my fellow Boomers start bleating that “we’re not all that way,” allow me to say that most are, and most of those who aren’t are ineffective in controlling those who are. So, spare me the “don’t generalize” cappola.

The biggest problem most of us Boomers are going to have was brought home to me with a bang the other night in an AA meeting. A young fellow allowed as to how he didn’t like a lot of meetings because he was — to quote — “tired of having to listen to a bunch of Vietnam veterans sit around and whine.” All I could think of was the line by Emerson, “All heroes in time become bores.”

And that will be the Baby Boomers’ epitaph.

[IronJack]

the Frankfurt School

Yep. And Antonio Gramsci, one of Hillary Clintons' favorite social architects.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark for later

[mikeus_maximus]

"Back in the Sixties," sighs an ex-hippie lady I know, "everybody was happy. Really. Everybody."

That's what you remember, dear, because you were stoned.

In some ways, I envy my kids. They'll live in a time when the throwbacks of the 60's generation are dead.

[neverdem]

The second link in the story talks about Gramsci. Yahoo has 64,300 hits when you enter frankfurt school gramsci for a search.

Adding the suffix ?page=x#x where x = 48 to the URL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900224/posts
takes you to your comment.

href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900224/posts?page=48#48

Clicking on a numbered comments while you're viewing your "comments" display does that trick automatically.

[DGHoodini]

We are convinced that no modern problem has a military solution, and that applies to the Iranian nuclear programme as well,” said Mr Lavrov.

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“I believe he thinks this [war against Iraq] is a war that can be won, but there is no such thing anymore.”

“We can’t beat anyone anymore.”

- George Clooney

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Things that make you go HMMmmmmmmmm....

[elcid1970]

Geez. One of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers circa 1970.

“And, as we’ve always said, dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope”.

Yeah, man

(born 1948. Way early boomer)

[VR-21]

Sometimes I embarrass myself.

A few nights ago a lady posted a video of a cat and a pair of headphones. After all these years Fat Freddy’s Cat popped into my mind and I found a Freak Bros. website to get a picture to post. That picture of Freewheelin Frank is from that site.

[shrinkermd]

Good post. Thank you. Author seems to have read Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death (1974). Becker put the fear of death as the central dynamic of both ancient and modern man.

[jackibutterfly]

I don’t get it - explain, please.

[VR-21]

"I don’t get it - explain, please.

I've got to leave the house for a bit, but if you tell me what it is you want explained I'll give it a shot later this evening.

[-YYZ-]

“Starting in the Sixties, the Left began to deny the Reality Principle, leading to a kind of mass neurosis.”

This is something that I have noticed - those on the left seem to think that fervently wishing something was true will make it so - that you can change reality by pretending it isn’t what it is. The world may not be the way that I’d prefer it was, either, but I know that wishing it was won’t make it so.

[qam1]

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[jackibutterfly]

Your cartoon - thanks much - see ya tonite.

[TalBlack]

“Back in the Sixties,” sighs an ex-hippie lady I know, “everybody was happy. Really. Everybody.”

“The Sixties, as such didn’t start untill between 1967 and 1968, and were dead dead dead before the end of 1971.

The Sixties are a few fleeting moments hyped to no end.

“Woodstock Nation” (snigger)