You can move any person into any institution and they all seem to fit.
Posted on 05/22/2009 10:06:31 AM PDT by stfassisi
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
You can move any person into any institution and they all seem to fit.
This should be required reading for every conservative.
This is good stuff and correctly identifies the tumor from which our current liberalist cancer metastasized. Gramsci’s lies and the Frankfurters need to be eradicated and their disciples purged from our power structure.
bflr
"We can envision a future, if we can only destroy this existing oppressive order, in which we liberate eros, we liberate libido, in which we have a world of "polymorphous perversity," in which you can "do you own thing."
And then move the Laurel and Hardy show from Columbia to Notre Dame and the cultural rollover has center stage in the heart of Middle America.
Yes, I saw a lot of this first-hand, and I’m familiar with the various forms of postmodernist “theory.”
This is, unfortunately, correct.
What, you might ask, were these guys doing in the OSS, the predecessor to the CIA? Well, just keep in mind that FDR was running the show back then, with his Communist sympathies and friends, and Hitler was invariably defined as a “rightest” or a “conservative,” although that was clearly untrue. When I was a child I believed it myself, and only came to understand what “National Socialism” meant much later.
Either they were too stupid and hired native German-speakers indiscriminately or the ideological distance between the fellow travelers in FDR’s administration and the Frankfurtians was not that far. Now it’s almost impossible to pass through a university without coming into contact with Frankfurt Critical theory and Cultural Marxists. And the current president is a product of Columbia University, Alinksy theory, and George Soros.
By the way, Critical Theory also masquerades under names like Deconstructionism, Revisionism, and Post-Modernism. Whenever you see inane rejection of a perfectly valid status quo, look for a marxist behind it. The marxist’s response to “If it works, don’t fix it” is “Nothing works.”
If I could say a word . . . This piece (and so many like them) floats on a sort of Star Wars fascination with the powers of the Dark Side.
Or maybe this is better way of saying it: why always this fascination for the prostitute, the skilled scrutiny that yields the finest prose when wishing her dead, and not much at all to say about the wife.
One of these days writers will realize that what’s Gramscian is talk about them, even if it comes in the form criticism.
Conservatives give the enemy press.
It is important to know history of ideas. Especially since in this case much of it was deliberately concealed, for example, when “marxist” was deliberately purged from the vocabulary.
Does it become feeding ground for scary conspiracy theories? You bet.
It’s important, but the East Germans said the same thing.
Said the same thing about what?
"This piece (and so many like them) floats on a sort of Star Wars fascination with the powers of the Dark Side."
Maybe more like a Dr. Evil and Mini Me fascination to be technical about it. While it is possible to exaggerate the influence of Cultural Marxism in either πάθος or Entgegenständlichung, probably not by very much. It has an affinity with the Fabian Socialism and Deweyite trends which were already present in American mass education. Most liberals in the media would be too stupid to be able to tell the difference. They think of it just as progressive. The marketing and repackaging of it as "postmodern" was interesting. It might be worth debating the presentation of Freudianism and Frankfurt School social theory by Deweyite methods in the American system since not much philosophy is taught in the classical sense.
It is important to know history of ideas.
Another example. Right now, medieval studies is overrun with scholars learning about the history of deviant sexuality, stressing that it is important to know the history of ideas.
I have said it for years: Political Correctness WILL destory this nation.
I defer to Mr. Lincoln:
““Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction were our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
We will die by suicide. The bullet will be PC.
What gives freedom? Destruction of an enemy? Hmm. After binding or converting the prostitute, learn to know and adore the wife.
It was a joke for God's sake.
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