“We’re from France.” – The Coneheads
I friend at work quit to become a mime. Haven’t heard from him since.
I’ve written about the Frankfurt School before, but when I did a search on the site it came up with two results. One in July 2021 (LINK), and another in July 2022 (LINK). So, since it’s July 2023, it must be time to write about the Frankfurt School again.
The reason I keep coming back to them is that the story of the Frankfurt School is the story of a small group of committed Marxists that created lot of what is wrong in the world. It’s shocking, right, that a group dedicated to destroying everything good in a nation might be the wrong sorts of people to let in?
I’m becoming convinced that the Frankfurt School created a big part of what’s wrong in France. And Great Britain. And Sweden. And the United States. And, well, all of Western Civilization.
Save the bees. Plant the trees. Deport refugees.
YouTube® recently suggested (a two-year-old video – LINK) about the Frankfurt School that brought me some new information – members of the Frankfort School had been involved in the process of taking postwar Germany and breaking the will of the German people by using the propaganda of Collective Guilt. It was a surprise to me to learn that many of the main members of the Frankfurt School (at least Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer) worked directly for the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. Thankfully, the CIA never engages in schemes that make James Bond villains look sane.
Oops.
The fact that the OSS hired committed communists who were dedicated to the overthrow of the American Way of Life® can charitably be described as a “failure of background checks”, or less charitably be described as “the cure being worse than the disease”.
Collective Guilt really did a number on the Germans. Over time and with repeated pressure, people who had done nothing wrong were made to feel guilt for things that they hadn’t done. Over time, this made children who were born in Germany be ashamed of just being born German. How bad is it? Angela Merkel saw an aide holding a German flag after an election victory. She took the flag from the aide and tossed it off camera. Sure, Angie was raised in East Germany, but she certainly was aware that her voters wouldn’t have a problem with her hating Germany, since they hated it, too.
How do you get an art major to leave you alone? Either pay for the pizza or give up the Sudetenland.
The Soviets took an entirely different approach in East Germany than the Frankfurt School did in West Germany: “Be communist, take your steroids, don’t rock the boat, and we’re watching everything you do.” Being German was okay, but being anything but a good communist was punishable by getting fewer potatoes for dinner. The results of this?
The map above shows that in former East Germany, the AfD (Alternatives for Germany) party does very, very well, The AfD platform includes crazy things like protecting sovereignty, Western identity, and that German culture is okay. They’re against immigration, and don’t trust the EU.
Since the Germans have been so shamed, AfD, which has values that approximate the values of any functional nation, is continually investigated as an “extremist” group.
I’m certain the Frankfurt School was thrilled with the success of turning Germany into a nation that hates itself. Why stop there, if your goal is to destroy Western Civilization and replace it with communism? To a committed communist, every functioning Western nation that isn’t communist is fascist, and so why not target them with powerful psychological warfare?
In previous posts, I’ve covered the attempt to make the people in the United States feel Collective Guilt over slavery (gone nearly 180 years) with the 1619 Project™, a hate filled propaganda fest launched alongside the other efforts to destroy the United States. All of them are from the same source – Black Lives Matter®, and illegal aliens are just part of the destabilization movement, attempts to create and exploit Collective Guilt.
How well has that worked on white people? Unlike every healthy civilization, ever, white Lefties in the United States actually have the opposite of an in-group preference. They actually like people from other groups rather than their own group. Here’s a graph that shows why Leftists behave like they behave. As I’ve said again and again, they hate themselves.
The same thing has happened to Great Britain. They sent their ships around the world, and landed at desolate backwaters whose idea of high technology was a mud hut. When the British left, they left roads, hospitals, and (at the time) functioning governments, and access to improvements that invariably increased the quality of life for billions. For this, their Collective Guilt has been being called colonizers, and they’ve been made to feel shame if they don’t allow hordes of people who have no connection to Britain to come into their country and pull their statues down.
23% of the crew on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria were named Juan. That’s nearly a three to Juan ratio.
France is much the same, with just different groups of aliens there. The riots in France here in 2023 are about a serial criminal who got shot and died after doing the usual criminal stuff and endangering civilians. The result is somewhat different than the George Floyd riots – the illegals (many of them are – France doesn’t have birthright citizenship) and “legal” rioters have guns, and have been using them, though to what extent is not clear.
France may very well be the end of the road for the Frankfurt School’s plans. As the violence of the rioters makes a lie of the years of propaganda about the true nature of France and the true nature of the illegals, perhaps the conditioning will wear off.
Perhaps.