Yep. Wittgenstein—and even Plato—knew that when you destroy the meaning of Words, you create chaos and tyranny. Destroy Language and you destroy the culture.
The Cultural Marxists have been trying to destroy Christian Ethics since they declared “God is Dead” in the 1800s Germany. The Cultural Marxists knew to take over all the institutions (skools, universities, law schools, legal system, publishing agency and media (all information)-—they could control the Minds of the Masses. They literally marched through ALL our institutions and took them over —all of them-—by 1970.
Sex Ed was forced into the schools at that time and literally destroys virtue formation in children. Without Virtue, there is no freedom.
“In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary. He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary. Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools. Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority. All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters. “
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html#ixzz4cvhhpk7k
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The pernicious influence of Adorno’s ‘authoritarian personality’ idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.
“In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study. It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed. Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness.” http://www.edwatch.org/ ‘Social and Emotional Learning” Jan. 26, 2005)
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> > > social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,’ ‘dogmatism,’ and ‘uncertainty avoidance,’ together with associated indicators for mental illness.” < < <
Wow, that sounds like something Pope Francis would say.