“I spent considerable time in Europe in my younger days and what is going on here has got nothing to do with a transition to European socialism.”
How do you characterize the change you see, though?
I am a voracious reader of both fiction and non fiction books so the easiest way for me to describe where I think our country is headed is to use books I have read. I know George Orwell’s 1984 is being talked about a good deal lately(with good reason)but the comparison always felt like it was missing something. The other day I was looking for something to read and there on the shelf was the missing piece to the puzzle in the form of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I thought these two dystopian novels when combined together completed the picture but there was something that was still missing. Your question got me thinking on the subject and I finally realized what was missing. I know there has been considerable talk of the Neo Marxist ideology/philosophy of Obama and some of his supporters and followers. This strain of Neo Marism is mostly based on the philosophy of the Frankfurt school.It is largely responsible for the craziness of the 60’s. So the answer to your question is as follows. Imagine if an adherent of the Frankfurt School philosophy decided to write a book describing how they would like the world to be. This book would be an amalgamation of the dystopian idea’s contained in Orwell’s 1984 and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 constructed through the philosophical bias of a Neo Marxist. That is as close as I can come to describing how I feel about where the changes that are occuring in our country may be leading us.