“Jack has got to find the Override before the rest of these reactors go critical! – 24
My math teacher used a lot of graph paper. I think she was plotting something.
The education of children has to be the imperative of a culture. Why? That education forms their perspective on the past. That perspective gives a view of what works, and what doesn’t work. It also must account for the stories of virtue and villainy.
Who are the bad guys of the culture? Who are the good guys from the culture? To a student, it matters. The myth of George Washington was important – here was a man who voluntarily let go of power – twice. And we all know why George’s dad didn’t punish him for chopping down the cherry tree: George had an ax.
This education comes from more than the schools. It also comes in the form of the messages that our children receive as they grow up. It’s embedded in the cartoons they watch. It’s in the television and videos they watch. Why do people say there is no American culture? They’re soaking in it.
A primary objective of every tyranny that has ever existed is to indoctrinate the youth. Back before television and radio, it took a lot of local effort. Unless the Church was on your side, it probably would be difficult to keep the message tight. Marxists fought this by eliminating the Church.
Ever hear of the ghost that got arrested for possession?
As a young Wilder, the culture I was exposed to was one of what I’d call “standard postwar liberalism.” No, Pa and Ma Wilder weren’t Leftists, at all. But between 1950 and 1990 or so, most people were liberal in one sense or another. I had to interview Pa Wilder for a school project, and asked his thoughts about marijuana legalization:
“Well, it’s awfully hard to criticize someone smoking marijuana with a bourbon in my hand.”
See, liberal, though I’d bet a month’s pay that Pa Wilder was never in the same room with a joint in his life. But since that was a school project when I was in fifth grade, maybe that was part of my indoctrination, as well. Hmmm.
I think Ma and Pa voted for Reagan, twice, but their philosophy was more of a conservative blend of libertarianism, which I think fit their time and place. In reality, there wasn’t much difference between George H.W. Bush and Mike Dukakis. Both were liberals, H.W. was just a liberal who had worked for the C.I.A.
I hope that Idaho never legalizes pot. Think of all the baked potatoes.
Culture in that time and place was dominated by television. And not only was it dominated by television, it was dominated by three networks: ABC®, NBC™, and CBS©. When it came to culture, they were all on the same page, the liberal one. They even canceled the sitcom about Abe Lincoln – it was shot before a live studio audience.
That liberal culture that they put out on the airwaves, minute after minute, was the single most inclusive culture in the history of mankind. The networks indoctrinated an entire generation of white kids into the least prejudiced generation of any people in the history of mankind.
Really.
That was my generation. The indoctrination was so very deep that when we heard someone make a disparaging remark about another, we’d physically wince. This indoctrination turned it from a rational thought to a matter of faith.
That was the key. We were on board. We really did believe in a country that was based in a sense of civic nationalism as the highest value. To be fair, it’s a beautiful story, and if it were left at that, maybe, just maybe it might have worked. Even though I’ve always been on the Right, I was on board.
When the UK left the EU they freed up 1 GB.
However, down in another level of indoctrination that was played out in communities different than mine, the message was likewise a different one: the United States is inherently evil, racist, and (that community) were nothing more than victims.
What? Who was spreading that message?
The Academy. The Academy is the network of colleges and schools. High school isn’t the end of indoctrination, college is the next step.
For example: one kid that I went to high school with normally dressed like a serious nerd. Button-up collared shirts and slacks. The rest of us were in t-shirts and jeans, mostly.
I saw him at Christmas after we’d both been at college for the first semester. He was wearing torn jeans, a green trench coat, a beret, and John Lennon sunglasses. I think he got better.
That was after six months. Yes, he went to a really, really Leftist school. But his personality changed entirely after that. A major source of indoctrination into Leftist dogma is at the colleges: why do you think they invented degrees that have “studies” in the title? I mean, it’s not (only) to get people that are unequipped to take real courses into spending $150,000 for a degree that will earn them a $23,000 a year job they could have had straight out of high school.
And the colleges indoctrinate the next professors. Those professors in turn then indoctrinate the next school teacher, and the next youth pastor and the next youth baseball coach.
Hey, it’s all up on the Gonzaga® website. Looks like the Academy takes care of its own.
For decades, the Academy has been teaching Critical Theory at schools. Critical Theory is Marxist, and not the good Groucho kind. The reason that Critical Theory was developed was because people in the United States in the 1920s weren’t (and aren’t) class conscious. Commies tried to use the rich and poor divide to create revolution in the United States, and found something unusual:
Not only wasn’t the United States class conscious, many of the people that they could get to join labor unions were anti-communist. That perplexed the Leftists, until they realized that most Americans thought that they could become rich. The fixed idea of class that worked so well in Russia and China failed miserably in the United States.
What to do? In this case, develop Critical Theory. They did this because a certain former corporal kicked all of the commies out of a certain country, so instead of heading to Russia, they decided to infect the United States. They called themselves the Frankfurt School. DuckDuckGo® them if you’re bored. You won’t be disappointed.
Critical Theory tries to use an assessment of history, society, and culture to challenge power structures as well as culture. They use a tremendous number of nonsense academic-speak words in what they’re saying because it’s not really academics, it’s a cult.
Really, though, the goal was to find something, anything, to drive a wedge between the American people. And, after trying and failing, the Frankfurt School found that wedge.
Race.
I got pulled over the other day for just trying to keep up with traffic. The state patrolman said the road was clear. “Yes, officer, that’s how far behind I am.”
Race has been the single most divisive topic in the United States, and the Academy is doing everything possible to pour pee in the PEZ® bowl of America. Why? The Soviets, who the Leftists that make up the Academy love, went bankrupt.
Next? The Chinese embraced state-run capitalism combined with a Chinese nationalism that makes true Leftists cringe. What to do?
Ahhh, yes, create enough racial tension to pull everything down. Here, at last, they can finally create a true equality!
Critical Race Theory is one of the latest salvos intended to completely reconfigure the United States, if not the world. Note that it’s just “Critical Theory” with Race tucked smartly in the middle. It is nothing more than the early versions of this Marxist attack on Western Civilization in general, and the United States in particular, but using their most effective wedge: race.
I’d say (if I were to guess) the best race relations ever seen in the history of the world were somewhere between 1990 and 2008 in the United States. Barack Obama wasn’t elected as a racial wedge, but that’s exactly how he played his cards. He had the unique opportunity to heal, but instead chose to rip the Band-Aid® off and then rub Madonna’s underwear on the healing wound.
Or more time with an iron.
Every place (and I mean every place) that I’ve worked where things went well, there wasn’t a sense of entitlement. People worked hard, heck, sometimes competed to work harder. It wasn’t about the money, it was about doing good work. But one person can show up in a workplace and destroy that cohesion.
All they have to do is convince a few people that they’re being taken advantage of. That people in another company have it better. That they have a new enemy, the Man. That’s what Critical Theory, and in this case, Critical Race Theory is all about. Creating division.
It’s cloaked, like every Leftist lie is. Leftists who write, teach, and indoctrinate using this nonsense are exactly the type of people who use phrases like, “My truth.” They say that they’re doing nothing more than “telling the truth” which explains why they don’t want lessons or homework discussed with parents.
It’s about creating division.
What do you think reparations are? A fight for division. Understand, if reparations were set at $30,000 or $300,000 or $3,000,000 per person, the answer would be, “It’s not enough.”
It will never be enough because the goal isn’t goodwill toward men, it is division.
I guess women who vote for the Right are okay. I always liked Republic-hens. (not my meme)
In my generation, the indoctrination was all some version of, “hey, we can all get along,” and if the goal was to get along they had gone very far. But that was never the goal. Division is first.
Then, destruction. Followed by? Suppression that would make Stalin jealous. Then, they think, Power.
The Leftists must think they have won. Critical Race Theory is the equivalent of surrounding the embassy in Saigon. If we don’t push back, who will be left to educate?
And if we don’t push back, will there be room on that last chopper out?
The Germans knew how to deal with Communists. And Socialists are just Communists wearing smiley-face masks.
The only history class I took in college was “The History of the Vietnam war.” It went back to the Chinese conquest in 1408 AD. All the instructors were veterans of the American involvement. The lead professor was the pilot of the helicopter pictured above, who was on his 7th tour of duty there. “We were soldiers once, and young” was required reading. It was an excellent class.
We (conventionally) have such a narrow view of tha conflict. It started before us, and will continue after us as they will likely have to contend (again) with the Chinese in the future.
They also proved one thing. You don’t need F-15s and nukes.
Great minds, I posted a video about critical theory and the Frankfurt School just this morning. It makes a lot of NormieCons twitchy to talk about things like the Frankfurt school because of the patterns that keep showing up….
(((Patterns)))
Think the normies are waking up?
https://mercatornet.com/san-fran-gay-choir-children/73272/
But, but, the people at Pride Fest liked it . . . . (which says a bit about Pride Fest)
Tim Pool’s show last week with Asra Nomani, they said they are not teaching CRT in the school. Rather, they are;
‘Critical Race Applied Principles’
Oddly, they’re coming for (soon) Tim Pool. He’s the most normie of podcasters, ever.
The line keeps moving.
Yup, applied principles. Indoctrination.
“What do you think reparations are? A fight for division. Understand, if reparations were set at $30,000 or $300,000 or $3,000,000 per person, the answer would be, “It’s not enough.”
It will never be enough because the goal isn’t goodwill toward men, it is division.”
Bread and circuses, they know it won’t happen but keep bringing it up.
IMO It gains traction less and less each time they have brought it up.
They keep trying hard but I think they are gaining a tiny bit of doubt each time and a few are realizing that we are now only left with the cartridge box as the old saying goes.
Look how scared all those in DC people are after they announced yesterday the fences are coming down. Some are scared shitless, those with power still believe because they know they have protection.
I will stay humble in my little home but enjoy watching their attitudes.
People with real power don’t have to work it like these try-hards do. They know that, too.
That makes them seethe.
Could you explain the ringworld meme?
Sure! CRT is just one facet, but there’s an entire cultural edifice built behind it.
Ending CRT isn’t the end. It’s the start.
(Again, not my meme, it’s not the way or exactly the targets I would have picked, but I thought it was good food for thought – CRT didn’t just show up – there were many antecedents.)
Search for the Frankfurt School found this interesting bit at http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/877/-frankfurt-school-cultural-marxism/
“Cultural Marxism began as the result of the evident failure of Western Marxism in the years immediately after the First World War.[2] Reflecting on the reasons for this, two prominent Marxist thinkers, Antonio Gramsci and George Lukács, “concluded that the working class of Europe had been blinded by the success of Western democracy and capitalism. They reasoned that until both had been destroyed, a communist revolution was not possible.”
So their very core is the destruction of democracy. Interesting that none of the Marxists running don’t consider landing in China. I don’t think it is a challenge to get a visa. Of course, maybe they are slowed down by the fact that China is very racist and expects everyone to work at what they are told to do.
Yup. The goal is and has been the destruction of the United States. It’s a war between cultures. As we know that’s the most brutal type. No squirtguns at 20 paces.
“The Frankfurt School has been thoroughly deboonked by all the best deboonkers on the internet: Wikipedia, Snopes, and PoltiFact. Anti-Americans who hate all things hotdog, all things bun, and all things mustard and relish smeared an innocent wiener-making trade-school and blew it up into this vicious anti-Semitic rumor because they just can’t handle that America has always been Marxist.”
Hmmm… it needs a little more fleshing-out and a bit of knob polish but it’s pretty close to publishable at CNN or the BBC. I might have missed my calling as a gaslighter.
Okay, weirdly, I checked Wikipedia: it’s still all on there.
To Dr. Suess it:
This ideology is so big and so deep and so tall
There is no way to hide it
No way at all
As with with so many liberal theories, CRT is an accurate observation followed by a list of “solutions” that intentionally exacerbate the problem so as to allow for increased leftist control. America was founded by white people, for white people. Non-whites and non-asians will always feel like oppressed outsiders in a nation created by and for white people for the same reason we would always feel like oppressed outsiders in a nation created by and for non-whites. We all evolved to prefer a certain kind of government and economic system; to be forced to live in a system different than our genes evolved to fit in will always be grating. It’s not a coincidence that convicts thrown on a desert continent still create a European-like nation (Australia), or those that settled on a barren volcanic rock still managed to create a good society to live in by European standards (Iceland.) It’s equally not a coincidence that a fertile equatorial nation with lots of gold deposits like Haiti ends up looking like Africa, when its run by Africans.
The solution proposed by Leftists seems to be to create a legal and economic system within white nations where non-whites won’t feel oppressed, but of course making them feel oppressed is a feature not a bug of CRT.
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Social control isn’t just in academia, it is also in the media. One niche example that I think illustrates just how embedded it is is from a blog by a writer of the old 1980’s “AD&D” cartoon:
“The kids were all heroic — all but a semi-heroic member of their troupe named Eric. Eric was a whiner, a complainer, a guy who didn’t like to go along with whatever the others wanted to do. Usually, he would grudgingly agree to participate, and it would always turn out well, and Eric would be glad he joined in. He was the one thing I really didn’t like about the show.
So why, you may wonder, did I leave him in there? Answer: I had to.
As you may know, there are those out there who attempt to influence the content of childrens’ television. We call them “parents groups,” although many are not comprised of parents, or at least not of folks whose primary interest is as parents. Study them and you’ll find a wide array of agendum at work…and I suspect that, in some cases, their stated goals are far from their real goals.
Nevertheless, they all seek to make kidvid more enriching and redeeming, at least by their definitions, and at the time, they had enough clout to cause the networks to yield. Consultants were brought in and we, the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain “pro-social” morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant “pro-social” moral was as follows: The group is always right…the complainer is always wrong.
This was the message of way too many eighties’ cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get-Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle. Each week, whichever member of the gang didn’t get along with the gang learned the error of his or her ways.
We were forced to insert this “lesson” in D & D, which is why Eric was always saying, “I don’t want to do that” and paying for his social recalcitrance. I thought it was forced and repetitive, but I especially objected to the lesson. I don’t believe you should always go along with the group. What about thinking for yourself? What about developing your own personality and viewpoint? What about doing things because you decide they’re the right thing to do, not because the majority ruled and you got outvoted?
We weren’t allowed to teach any of that. We had to teach kids to join gangs. And then to do whatever the rest of the gang wanted to do.”
https://www.newsfromme.com/pov/col145-2/
Nice link.
Cartoons, though were always about propaganda. Parents never watched them, so it was a fine way to inject the values you wanted while mom and dad had coffee or mowed the lawn or slept in.
Subversion at 24 frames per second.
Why would you fight to come to a country only to try to make it look like the country you escaped from? Again, there is a conflict of cultures coming soon to a city near you.
Great link.
It is not a pinko game, it is an atheist game.
Once upon a time we knew that the serious danger of the Reds was not the advocacy of the workers and small businesses owners against the assorted aristos: magnates, bureaucrats, and politicos. It was the utopian atheist solutions: government creches for your kids, sexless sex-workers, human beings not as imago deii, but interchangeable widgets, and if mankind can just find the right god-free formula, it can escape the eternal consequences of sin.
Of course, if one takes that line, it puts usury, no-fault divorce, slave-owning, one’s ability to kill inconvenient elderly or offspring, and all our freewheeling sexy-fun times in jeopardy.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch.
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch.
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings.
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man—
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:—
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return
Pinkos gonna pinko. SJWs always lie. Human beans gonna Human. There is no utopia – commie, capitalist, or otherwise in an entropic universe. If you want to build something that lasts, look to the foundation.
Not so much atheist. Atheism is a feature, not a driving force. C.S. Lewis might add a few words to dear Rudyard’s work.
Leftism is a religion. Marx is their messiah. Pinkos are a sect. Atheists are a sect.
And, mostly, the only conversion possible involves meeting with the angels. While falling from a helicopter.
One question that is never asked is: What kind of life would American blacks have if there were no slavery? Another would be, was a slave’s life in the U.S. worse than it would have been in Africa? As Glenn Loury says, American blacks are the most free, richest in history.
Scott Adams says that if aliens were judging the outcomes of slavery, that they’d say it worked out very, very well for the descendents of those black folks who were brought over here.
If we don’t push back, we will fall. If we fall, where will we go? We are the last bastion of freedom.
Our backs have been farther to the wall, and we’ve had far less.
We’re not done, and this isn’t over.
It may have begun with twelve, but they had a great and inspiring leader who was genuinely selfless.
Washington was the great and inspiring, yet selfless, leader of his generation.
We need a great yet good man to step up and lead. Without leadership, the masses achieve very little.
You are right. I am convinced he is out there. He probably doesn’t even know it yet.
Easily one of your top five posts ever. Timeless and spot on. Copied and archived.
Thank you, Karl! I had been mulling about that one for a while.
There are more of us than the left can possibly imagine. We’re just quiet about it. And being quiet doesn’t mean we’re pin cushions. The left has people with big mouths, so they naturally get noticed more.
It is always that way: the Left just never imagines how vast we are.
Let the pushback begin:
(by which I mean continue)
More weapons for the battle against CRT:
Wrecking CRT
https://truthreciprocitysovereignty.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/wrecking-crt/
Good. It should be stopped.