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They were divisive and truthful.
Victory would come only after Christian beliefs had died in the soul of Western Man.
One student of Critical Theory defined it as the “essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism.”11
Online dictionary says "confront"
This is the root of the “therapeutic state”—a regime where sin is redefined as sickness, crime becomes antisocial behavior, and the psychiatrist replaces the priest. If fascism is, as Adorno, says, “in the culture,” then all of us raised in that old God-and-country culture of the 1940s and 1950s are in need of treatment to help us come face-to-face with the prejudices and bigotries in which we were marinated from birth.
The entertainment industry … has wholly absorbed the ideology of cultural Marxism and preaches it endlessly not just in sermons but in parables: strong women beating up weak men, children wiser than their parents, corrupt clergymen thwarted by carping drifters, upper-class blacks confronting the violence of lower-class whites, manly homosexuals who lead normal lives. It is all fable, an inversion of reality, but the entertainment media make it seem real, more so than the world that lies beyond the front door.21
Marcuse’s candidates: radical youth, feminists, black militants, homosexuals, the alienated, the asocial, Third World revolutionaries, all the angry voices of the persecuted “victims” of the West. This was the new proletariat that would overthrow Western culture.
Past societies had been subverted by words and books, but Marcuse believed that sex and drugs were superior weapons. In Eros and Civilization, Marcuse urged a universal embrace of the Pleasure Principle. Reject the cultural order entirely, said Marcuse (this was his “Great Refusal”), and we can create a world of “polymorphous perversity.”24
America has become an ideological state, a “soft tyranny,” where the new orthodoxy is enforced, not by police agents, but by inquisitors of the popular culture.
Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a more famous radical than any of the Frankfurt School, and she had anticipated their ideas: “Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tyranny of Christianity no less than capitalism.”40
But if the hedonism of the sixties flowed from the hedonism of the Prohibition Era, there is this difference: that 1920s generation did not hate America. A few “Lost Generation” writers fled the country, but the social rebels of the 1920s were not revolutionaries. After all, they elected Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover in the greatest Republican landslides in history. The sixties intelligentsia was different. As Eric Hoffer wrote, “Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.”
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As we look at America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, which peoples today show a greater disposition to die for their dreams?
Half a century ago, the Supreme Court was captured by judicial ideologues who understood its latent power to reshape society.
When Christians were told to “turn the other cheek,” it was for offenses against them, not against God. Christ himself used a whip to drive the money changers out of the temple.
Offenses Against the gospel
What happened at Tufts was a collision of faiths. The catechism of the revolution teaches that homosexuality is a preference, not a sin, and that those who treat gays and lesbians differently are bigots who must be exposed and reeducated. In biblical Christianity, homosexuality is unnatural and immoral. And this is the heart of the culture war: Whose beliefs shall be the basis of law? At Tufts, the new faith briefly replaced the old, and Christians were ordered to conform or leave. The revolution will coexist until
Hollywood gave Hanks an Oscar for his politically correct performance.
Roger Kimball, an editor at New Criterion,
Unschooled in matters of morality and culture, many are uncomfortable with such issues, have no interest in them, and don’t believe they belong in politics.
“You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.”16
Open war is upon you
“The first thing we have to learn about fighting and winning a culture war,” said Dr. Sam Francis, the syndicated columnist and author of Revolution from the Middle, “is that we are not fighting to ‘conserve’ something, we are fighting to overthrow something.”23
We must understand clearly and firmly that the dominant authorities in … the major foundations, the media, the schools, the universities, and most of the system of organized culture, including the arts and entertainment—not only do nothing to conserve what most of us regard as our traditional way of life, but actually seek its destruction or are indifferent to its survival. If our culture is going to be conserved, then we need to dethrone the dominant authorities that threaten it.24
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.39
If the party loses its lock on black America, no Democratic lock on the presidency is possible. That is a political fact of life.
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As the cultural revolution took generations to triumph, it will take generations to roll back. And the great battles will not be political, but moral, intellectual, and spiritual.
If we turn a blind eye to what is happening on our borders, a huge slice of the Third World will arrive here in the first decades of the twenty-first century. For the word is out that the candy store is open and the cop no longer walks the beat.
Biden regime
It] does not offer ordinary men compelling motives for personal suffering, sacrifice and death … . [It] proposes a set of pale and bloodless abstractions—pale and bloodless for the very reason that they have no roots in the past, in deep feeling, and in suffering.”19
We are a republic, not an empire. And until we restore the foreign policy urged upon us by our Founding Fathers—of staying out of other nations’ quarrels—we shall know no end of war and no security or peace in our own homeland.
“The poor homosexuals; they have declared war on nature and nature is exacting an awful retribution.”
the ideology of the revolution clashes with the laws of human nature and nature’s God. Thus, this new society is built on sand.
Catholics in the nineteenth century removed their children from public schools to put them in parish schools.
Because They thought public schools were too Protestant . BecausAmerica was a christian nation (protestant )
Absent a revival of faith or a great awakening, Western men and women may simply live out their lives until they are so few they do not matter.
