HogTrash
10-07-2009, 08:52 AM
FACT...Liberalism did not just happen and neither did Political Correctness.
They were planned and instituted as a strategy of war to destroy America.
It is the classic battle of the democratic constitutional republic vs marxism.
Cultural Marxism—or Liberalism?
Paul Weyrich's 1999 letter on cultural separation provides material for reflection on how best to describe the present dominant ideology. Weyrich calls it Political Correctness or (his preferred term) Cultural Marxism, an "alien ideology" that has gained control of America and aims openly at destroying its traditional culture. But then he says, in response to the moral catastrophe of the Clinton years, that "we have to face some unpleasant facts. I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values."
But this raises the question, if a majority of Americans go along with this "alien ideology" (and not just go along with it, but take it so profoundly for granted that it becomes impossible for anyone to criticize it), can it really be so alien? Is it really an alien belief system coming from Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School that Americans have signed on to? Or is it not, rather, our own American liberal belief system which has grown ever more radical and extreme?
This returns us to a point I've made before. I think Jim Kalb's way of describing the dominant culture as "liberalism," rather than as leftism or political correctness, is more accurate. Also it's more hopeful. If it's a radical or alien ideology that has so totally taken over our minds that no one even dreams of opposing it, then we must be entire zombies to have let that happen, and there wouldn't seem much hope of our fixing things. But if it's our own, American liberalism manifesting its own radical potentialities, then we can do something about it, because the problem is in ourselves. We have made some fundamentally wrong assumptions that have led inevitably to our current crisis, and we can go back and get things right.
The difference between calling the problem Cultural Marxism derived from the Frankfurt School and calling the problem liberalism is roughly analogous to the difference between saying: "The Masons (or the Jews) have worked this vast conspiracy for centuries to undermine the Church and Civilization (in which case what the heck do we do about it), and saying: "We have done this to ourselves and we must repent." The first view leads to endless paranoid gripes and conspiracy mongering. The second can lead to a cure.
Years ago I spent some time with traditionalist Catholics from a New York City parish and everything wrong with the world they atttributed to the Masons. I told them, I have no idea who the Masons are, I've never seen a Mason. If the Masons are the source of the trouble, what do we do about that? These arguments got nowhere with them. It was the Masons. That was that.
So the question is: Is there some particular alien thing that we can nuke and then everything will be OK, or is it something more basic that is a problem within us?
Here is the excerpt from Paul Weyrich's 1999 letter on cultural separation that set these thoughts going:
But it is impossible to ignore the fact that the United States is becoming an ideological state. The ideology of Political Correctness, which openly calls for the destruction of our traditional culture, has so gripped the body politic, has so gripped our institutions, that it is even affecting the Church. It has completely taken over the academic community. It is now pervasive in the entertainment industry, and it threatens to control literally every aspect of our lives.
Those who came up with Political Correctness, which we more accurately call "Cultural Marxism," did so in a deliberate fashion. I'm not going to go into the whole history of the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse and the other people responsible for this. Suffice it to say that the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology, an ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture. Even now, for the first time in their lives, people have to be afraid of what they say.
This has never been true in the history of our country. Yet today, if you say the "wrong thing," you suddenly have legal problems, political problems, you might even lose your job or be expelled from college.
Certain topics are forbidden. You can't approach the truth about a lot of different subjects. If you do, you are immediately branded as "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "insensitive", or "judgmental."
Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The question becomes, if we are unable to escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have? Let me be perfectly frank about it. If there really were a moral majority out there, Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago. It is not only the lack of political will on the part of Republicans, although that is part of the problem. More powerful is the fact that what Americans would have found absolutely intolerable only a few years ago, a majority now not only tolerates but celebrates. Americans have adopted, in large measure, the MTV culture that we so valiantly opposed just a few years ago, and it has permeated the thinking of all but those who have separated themselves from the contemporary culture.
If in Washington State and Colorado, after we have spent years talking about partial birth abortion, we can't by referendum pass a ban on it, we have to face some unpleasant facts. I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/001129.html
They were planned and instituted as a strategy of war to destroy America.
It is the classic battle of the democratic constitutional republic vs marxism.
Cultural Marxism—or Liberalism?
Paul Weyrich's 1999 letter on cultural separation provides material for reflection on how best to describe the present dominant ideology. Weyrich calls it Political Correctness or (his preferred term) Cultural Marxism, an "alien ideology" that has gained control of America and aims openly at destroying its traditional culture. But then he says, in response to the moral catastrophe of the Clinton years, that "we have to face some unpleasant facts. I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values."
But this raises the question, if a majority of Americans go along with this "alien ideology" (and not just go along with it, but take it so profoundly for granted that it becomes impossible for anyone to criticize it), can it really be so alien? Is it really an alien belief system coming from Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School that Americans have signed on to? Or is it not, rather, our own American liberal belief system which has grown ever more radical and extreme?
This returns us to a point I've made before. I think Jim Kalb's way of describing the dominant culture as "liberalism," rather than as leftism or political correctness, is more accurate. Also it's more hopeful. If it's a radical or alien ideology that has so totally taken over our minds that no one even dreams of opposing it, then we must be entire zombies to have let that happen, and there wouldn't seem much hope of our fixing things. But if it's our own, American liberalism manifesting its own radical potentialities, then we can do something about it, because the problem is in ourselves. We have made some fundamentally wrong assumptions that have led inevitably to our current crisis, and we can go back and get things right.
The difference between calling the problem Cultural Marxism derived from the Frankfurt School and calling the problem liberalism is roughly analogous to the difference between saying: "The Masons (or the Jews) have worked this vast conspiracy for centuries to undermine the Church and Civilization (in which case what the heck do we do about it), and saying: "We have done this to ourselves and we must repent." The first view leads to endless paranoid gripes and conspiracy mongering. The second can lead to a cure.
Years ago I spent some time with traditionalist Catholics from a New York City parish and everything wrong with the world they atttributed to the Masons. I told them, I have no idea who the Masons are, I've never seen a Mason. If the Masons are the source of the trouble, what do we do about that? These arguments got nowhere with them. It was the Masons. That was that.
So the question is: Is there some particular alien thing that we can nuke and then everything will be OK, or is it something more basic that is a problem within us?
Here is the excerpt from Paul Weyrich's 1999 letter on cultural separation that set these thoughts going:
But it is impossible to ignore the fact that the United States is becoming an ideological state. The ideology of Political Correctness, which openly calls for the destruction of our traditional culture, has so gripped the body politic, has so gripped our institutions, that it is even affecting the Church. It has completely taken over the academic community. It is now pervasive in the entertainment industry, and it threatens to control literally every aspect of our lives.
Those who came up with Political Correctness, which we more accurately call "Cultural Marxism," did so in a deliberate fashion. I'm not going to go into the whole history of the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse and the other people responsible for this. Suffice it to say that the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology, an ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture. Even now, for the first time in their lives, people have to be afraid of what they say.
This has never been true in the history of our country. Yet today, if you say the "wrong thing," you suddenly have legal problems, political problems, you might even lose your job or be expelled from college.
Certain topics are forbidden. You can't approach the truth about a lot of different subjects. If you do, you are immediately branded as "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "insensitive", or "judgmental."
Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The question becomes, if we are unable to escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have? Let me be perfectly frank about it. If there really were a moral majority out there, Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago. It is not only the lack of political will on the part of Republicans, although that is part of the problem. More powerful is the fact that what Americans would have found absolutely intolerable only a few years ago, a majority now not only tolerates but celebrates. Americans have adopted, in large measure, the MTV culture that we so valiantly opposed just a few years ago, and it has permeated the thinking of all but those who have separated themselves from the contemporary culture.
If in Washington State and Colorado, after we have spent years talking about partial birth abortion, we can't by referendum pass a ban on it, we have to face some unpleasant facts. I no longer believe that there is a moral majority. I do not believe that a majority of Americans actually shares our values.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/001129.html