Who Stole Our Culture?

Hat tip Hardscrabble Farmer

Guest Post by William Lind

Sometime during the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 years ago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It was decent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Even blue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes, so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values.

Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadent place we live in today – so different that those who grew up prior to the ’60s feel like it’s a foreign country? Did it just “happen”?

It didn’t just “happen.” In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed to steal our culture and leave a new and very different one in its place. The story of how and why is one of the most important parts of our nation’s history – and it is a story almost no one knows. The people behind it wanted it that way.

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What happened, in short, is that America’s traditional culture, which had grown up over generations from our Western, Judeo-Christian roots, was swept aside by an ideology. We know that ideology best as “political correctness” or “multi-culturalism.” It really is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms in an effort that goes back not to the 1960s, but to World War I. Incredible as it may seem, just as the old economic Marxism of the Soviet Union has faded away, a new cultural Marxism has become the ruling ideology of America’s elites. The No. 1 goal of that cultural Marxism, since its creation, has been the destruction of Western culture and the Christian religion.

To understand anything, we have to know its history. To understand who stole our culture, we need to take a look at the history of “political correctness.”

Early Marxist theory

Before World War I, Marxist theory said that if Europe ever erupted in war, the working classes in every European country would rise in revolt, overthrow their governments and create a new Communist Europe. But when war broke out in the summer of 1914, that didn’t happen. Instead, the workers in every European country lined up by the millions to fight their country’s enemies. Finally, in 1917, a Communist revolution did occur, in Russia. But attempts to spread that revolution to other countries failed because the workers did not support it.

After World War I ended in 1918, Marxist theorists had to ask themselves the question: What went wrong? As good Marxists, they could not admit Marxist theory had been incorrect. Instead, two leading Marxist intellectuals, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary (Lukacs was considered the most brilliant Marxist thinker since Marx himself) independently came up with the same answer. They said that Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interests, that a Communist revolution was impossible in the West, until both could be destroyed. That objective, established as cultural Marxism’s goal right at the beginning, has never changed.

A new strategy

Gramsci famously laid out a strategy for destroying Christianity and Western culture, one that has proven all too successful. Instead of calling for a Communist revolution up front, as in Russia, he said Marxists in the West should take political power last, after a “long march through the institutions” – the schools, the media, even the churches, every institution that could influence the culture. That “long march through the institutions” is what America has experienced, especially since the 1960s. Fortunately, Mussolini recognized the danger Gramsci posed and jailed him. His influence remained small until the 1960s, when his works, especially the “Prison Notebooks,” were rediscovered.

Georg Lukacs proved more influential. In 1918, he became deputy commissar for culture in the short-lived Bela Kun Bolshevik regime in Hungary. There, asking, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” he instituted what he called “cultural terrorism.” One of its main components was introducing sex education into Hungarian schools. Lukacs realized that if he could destroy the country’s traditional sexual morals, he would have taken a giant step toward destroying its traditional culture and Christian faith.

Far from rallying to Lukacs’ “cultural terrorism,” the Hungarian working class was so outraged by it that when Romania invaded Hungary, the workers would not fight for the Bela Kun government, and it fell. Lukacs disappeared, but not for long. In 1923, he turned up at a “Marxist Study Week” in Germany, a program sponsored by a young Marxist named Felix Weil who had inherited millions. Weil and the others who attended that study week were fascinated by Lukacs’ cultural perspective on Marxism.

The Frankfurt School

Weil responded by using some of his money to set up a new think tank at Frankfurt University in Frankfurt, Germany. Originally it was to be called the “Institute for Marxism.” But the cultural Marxists realized they could be far more effective if they concealed their real nature and objectives. They convinced Weil to give the new institute a neutral-sounding name, the “Institute for Social Research.” Soon known simply as the “Frankfurt School,” the Institute for Social Research would become the place where political correctness, as we now know it, was developed. The basic answer to the question “Who stole our culture?” is the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School.

At first, the Institute worked mainly on conventional Marxist issues such as the labor movement. But in 1930, that changed dramatically. That year, the Institute was taken over by a new director, a brilliant young Marxist intellectual named Max Horkheimer. Horkheimer had been strongly influenced by Georg Lukacs. He immediately set to work to turn the Frankfurt School into the place where Lukacs’ pioneering work on cultural Marxism could be developed further into a full-blown ideology.

To that end, he brought some new members into the Frankfurt School. Perhaps the most important was Theodor Adorno, who would become Horkheimer’s most creative collaborator. Other new members included two psychologists, Eric Fromm and Wilhelm Reich, who were noted promoters of feminism and matriarchy, and a young graduate student named Herbert Marcuse.

Advances in cultural Marxism

With the help of this new blood, Horkheimer made three major advances in the development of cultural Marxism. First, he broke with Marx’s view that culture was merely part of society’s “superstructure,” which was determined by economic factors. He said that on the contrary, culture was an independent and very important factor in shaping a society.

Second, again contrary to Marx, he announced that in the future, the working class would not be the agent of revolution. He left open the question of who would play that role – a question Marcuse answered in the 1950s.

Third, Horkheimer and the other Frankfurt School members decided that the key to destroying Western culture was to cross Marx with Freud. They argued that just as workers were oppressed under capitalism, so under Western culture, everyone lived in a constant state of psychological repression. “Liberating” everyone from that repression became one of cultural Marxism’s main goals. Even more important, they realized that psychology offered them a far more powerful tool than philosophy for destroying Western culture: psychological conditioning.

Today, when Hollywood’s cultural Marxists want to “normalize” something like homosexuality (thus “liberating” us from “repression”), they put on television show after television show where the only normal-seeming white male is a homosexual. That is how psychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.

The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness. Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, where the Frankfurt School was located. Since the Frankfurt School was Marxist, and the Nazis hated Marxism, and since almost all its members were Jewish, it decided to leave Germany. In 1934, the Frankfurt School, including its leading members from Germany, was re-established in New York City with help from Columbia University. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional Western culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It would prove all too successful.

New developments

Taking advantage of American hospitality, the Frankfurt School soon resumed its intellectual work to create cultural Marxism. To its earlier achievements in Germany, it added these new developments.

Critical Theory

To serve its purpose of “negating” Western culture, the Frankfurt School developed a powerful tool it called “Critical Theory.” What was the theory? The theory was to criticize. By subjecting every traditional institution, starting with family, to endless, unremitting criticism (the Frankfurt School was careful never to define what it was for, only what it was against), it hoped to bring them down. Critical Theory is the basis for the “studies” departments that now inhabit American colleges and universities. Not surprisingly, those departments are the home turf of academic political correctness.

Studies in prejudice

The Frankfurt School sought to define traditional attitudes on every issue as “prejudice” in a series of academic studies that culminated in Adorno’s immensely influential book, “The Authoritarian Personality,” published in 1950. They invented a bogus “F-scale” that purported to tie traditional beliefs on sexual morals, relations between men and women and questions touching on the family to support for fascism. Today, the favorite term the politically correct use for anyone who disagrees with them is “fascist.”

Domination

The Frankfurt School again departed from orthodox Marxism, which argued that all of history was determined by who owned the means of production. Instead, they said history was determined by which groups, defined as men, women, races, religions, etc., had power or “dominance” over other groups. Certain groups, especially white males, were labeled “oppressors,” while other groups were defined as “victims.” Victims were automatically good, oppressors bad, just by what group they came from, regardless of individual behavior.

Though Marxists, the members of the Frankfurt School also drew from Nietzsche (someone else they admired for his defiance of traditional morals was the Marquis de Sade). They incorporated into their cultural Marxism what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of all values.” What that means, in plain English, is that all the old sins become virtues, and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an evil “fascist.” That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America. (The Frankfurt School wrote about American public education. It said it did not matter if school children learned any skills or any facts. All that mattered was that they graduate from the schools with the right “attitudes” on certain questions.)

Media and entertainment

Led by Adorno, the Frankfurt School initially opposed the culture industry, which they thought “commodified” culture. Then, they started to listen to Walter Benjamin, a close friend of Horkheimer and Adorno, who argued that cultural Marxism could make powerful use of tools like radio, film and later television to psychologically condition the public. Benjamin’s view prevailed, and Horkheimer and Adorno spent the World War II years in Hollywood. It is no accident that the entertainment industry is now cultural Marxism’s most powerful weapon.

The growth of Marxism in the United States

After World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, Horkheimer, Adorno and most of the other members of the Frankfurt School returned to Germany, where the Institute re-established itself in Frankfurt with the help of the American occupation authorities. Cultural Marxism in time became the unofficial but all-pervasive ideology of the Federal Republic of Germany.

But hell had not forgotten the United States. Herbert Marcuse remained here, and he set about translating the very difficult academic writings of other members of the Frankfurt School into simpler terms Americans could easily grasp. His book “Eros and Civilization” used the Frankfurt School’s crossing of Marx with Freud to argue that if we would only “liberate non-procreative eros” through “polymorphous perversity,” we could create a new paradise where there would be only play and no work. “Eros and Civilization” became one of the main texts of the New Left in the 1960s.

Marcuse also widened the Frankfurt School’s intellectual work. In the early 1930s, Horkheimer had left open the question of who would replace the working class as the agent of Marxist revolution. In the 1950s, Marcuse answered the question, saying it would be a coalition of students, blacks, feminist women and homosexuals – the core of the student rebellion of the 1960s, and the sacred “victims groups” of political correctness today. Marcuse further took one of political correctness’s favorite words, “tolerance,” and gave it a new meaning. He defined “liberating tolerance” as tolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the left, and intolerance for all ideas and movements coming from the right. When you hear the cultural Marxists today call for “tolerance,” they mean Marcuse’s “liberating tolerance” (just as when they call for “diversity,” they mean uniformity of belief in their ideology).

The student rebellion of the 1960s, driven largely by opposition to the draft for the Vietnam War, gave Marcuse a historic opportunity. As perhaps its most famous “guru,” he injected the Frankfurt School’s cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation. Of course, they did not understand what it really was. As was true from the Institute’s beginning, Marcuse and the few other people “in the know” did not advertise that political correctness and multi-culturalism were a form of Marxism. But the effect was devastating: a whole generation of Americans, especially the university-educated elite, absorbed cultural Marxism as their own, accepting a poisonous ideology that sought to destroy America’s traditional culture and Christian faith. That generation, which runs every elite institution in America, now wages a ceaseless war on all traditional beliefs and institutions. They have largely won that war. Most of America’s traditional culture lies in ruins.

A counter-strategy

Now you know who stole our culture. The question is, what are we, as Christians and as cultural conservatives, going to do about it?

We can choose between two strategies. The first is to try to retake the existing institutions – the public schools, the universities, the media, the entertainment industry and most of the mainline churches – from the cultural Marxists. They expect us to try to do that, they are ready for it, and we would find ourselves, with but small voice and few resources compared to theirs, making a frontal assault against prepared defensive positions. Any soldier can tell you what that almost always leads to: defeat.

There is another, more promising strategy. We can separate ourselves and our families from the institutions the cultural Marxists control and build new institutions for ourselves, institutions that reflect and will help us recover our traditional Western culture.

Several years ago, my colleague Paul Weyrich wrote an open letter to the conservative movement suggesting this strategy. While most other conservative (really Republican) leaders demurred, his letter resonated powerfully with grass-roots conservatives. Many of them are already part of a movement to secede from the corrupt, dominant culture and create parallel institutions: the homeschooling movement. Similar movements are beginning to offer sound alternatives in other aspects of life, including movements to promote small, often organic family farms and to develop community markets for those farms’ products. If Brave New World’s motto is “Think globally, act locally,” ours should be “Think locally, act locally.”

Thus, our strategy for undoing what cultural Marxism has done to America has a certain parallel to its own strategy, as Gramsci laid it out so long ago. Gramsci called for Marxists to undertake a “long march through the institutions.” Our counter-strategy would be a long march to create our own institutions. It will not happen quickly, or easily. It will be the work of generations – as was theirs. They were patient, because they knew the “inevitable forces of history” were on their side. Can we not be equally patient, and persevering, knowing that the Maker of history is on ours?

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anarchyst
anarchyst

The destruction of our culture and society can be placed squarely at the feet of the inventors and present-day promoters of communism.

Anonymous
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Anonymous
Anonymous

This could not have happen if we had not let the current culture devolve to a vacuum. We all be became materialists and communism is based solely on materialism. Today “Christianity” is all about materialism, too. “Oh Lord won’t you by me a Mercedes-Benz.” “I been going to church. I’ve been doing the stuff.”
Over the years there has appeared, from time to time, spiritual regeneration. Perhaps God will be gracious in our hour of need. “Where sin abounded, grace abounded even more.”

TS
TS

Excellent article. Outstanding historical detail and analysis. I studied this years ago. Unfortunately, the conclusion won’t hold water. A head-on clash as described truly brings defeat because it’s just too late for that. To withdraw is also defeat; does anyone think that those who ‘think globally’ once they get the power/ go-ahead to do it, will just let anybody sit back? To ‘think generations’ is a lost cause because we don’t have generations. That ship has sailed.
TBPers are full of thoughts on what’s coming down the tracks, so I definitely don’t need to expand on that, but it sure won’t be generations of foundational change. I like the idea, but its not reality. Time’s up.

AC
AC

Our counter-strategy would be a long march to create our own institutions.

That isn’t a counter-strategy, it’s suicide. Would have been a great idea for the early 1950s, though. We don’t have that kind of time.

Why Retire When I Can Work Myself To Death For An Extra Buck-Fiddy
Why Retire When I Can Work Myself To Death For An Extra Buck-Fiddy

Did the Marxist also come up with the practice of giving everyone a trophy, despite their team’s results? I’ve blamed the decline in America on that stupid practice.
You should only get a trophy if you’re a champion, right?!

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

It is well past time for a frank, no-holds-barred discussion with the Jewish community in this country, to prevent something dreadful from eventually happening. I am well aware of the fact that many Jews – I hope most Jews – simply want to get on with their lives like anybody else. That said, the Jewish community harbored, and has harbored for a very long time. a nasty cadre of wreckers, traitors, subversives and criminals who have waged unrelenting war on American society. Either the decent Jews take a hand and deal with them or the American people will. Enough bullshit. This war on our people is going to end one way or another. Make no mistake. Many Jews are fully aware of what their fellow Jews have been up to. They may not approve, but they never call them out. This has to end.

javelin
javelin

Agreed on all accounts. Most jews are what I call ” bagel and lox” jews. They may hold some traditions like Bah Mitzvahs, eat a few traditional foods and go to synagogue a few times a year during special days ( not unlike Christmas and Easter services always being jam packed)–but they aren’t particularly religious, care nothing about Israel and are not part of any Deep state or banking cabal of globalists.

There is no denying however that Jews are disproportionately represented in the globalists, the banking cabal and the Marxist universities which spread this cancer. I fear our nation has a terminal case.

wdg
wdg

Of course not all Jews are Zionists or part of the banking cabal…but almost all identify as Jews and are loyal members of a Kazarian tribe that converted to Talmudic (Pharisees) Judaism. On the other hand, just about every subversive and diabolical movement known to mankind is led and/or funded by Jews. It is inescapable that Jews operate as a Trojan Horse in the bosom of Christian Western Civilization and have so for over 2000 years. Furthermore, it cannot be refuted that all the major institutions of power in the western world – central and fractional-reserve banking, mass media, Hollywood movies, educational establishment, and a myriad of governmental agencies including the State Department and Congress – are controlled by Jews. This is totally unacceptable and cannot be allowed to stand. The first stage in taking back control of our nations and civilization is to expose Zionism, the Holocaust fraud, and the fact that modern Judaism is based on the satanic Talmud and Kabbala (and not Torah), that modern Jews are not the children of Abraham, and modern Israel is not biblical Israel but a blasphemy of massive proportions.

MN Steel
MN Steel

Well, I guess a small first step would be to stop calling it “Judeo-Christian Values”, a true oxymoron if there ever was one.

Perhaps “European-Christian Values” or some such.

After all, that’s what’s being destroyed, after all the churches were taken over.

And White Europeans with little to no Christian Values and their backs against the wall will ACTUALLY DO what the Jews accused the Third Reich of doing 70-plus years ago.

Perhaps it’s a tribal mechanism to kill off the slowest/least canny of the tribe every so often, but technology and persistance can do what Tay Sachs has not.

anarchyst
anarchyst

I cringe when I hear well-meaning people talk about out judeo-Christian heritage.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The only common thread between Christianity and judaism is the Ten Commandments–nothing more.
The god of judaism is a vengeful god, totally unlike the merciful and welcoming God of Christianity.
Christianity welcomes ALL, regardless of nationality or social status–not true of judaism.
Judaism is an insular belief system that shuns outsiders, prohibits proselytization, and promotes a form of supremacy, relegating all gentiles (non-jews) to the status of livestock–subhumans with souls, only to be used for the advancement and benefit of jews.
Jews DID murder Jesus Christ. Sad to say, even the present-day (post-Vatican II eumenical council) Catholic church has bought into absolving the jews for Jesus Christ’s murder. As always is the case, the jews got others, the Romans to do their dirty work for them–the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Looking back throughout history, jews have ALWAYS got others to do their dirty work (wars) for them, quite often financing both sides.
Islam and judaism are closely related, the Koran having many of the same attributes as judaism, when it comes to a supremacist attitude. You see, both the Islamic Koran and jewish Talmud promote their respective brands of supremacy, making it OK to lie, cheat, and steal from non-believers, each promoting certain laws for believers that exact greater punishment imposed on non-believers, while promoting no or little punishment for believers that transgress against non-believers.
Islam must be given credit for honoring Jesus Christ and his mother Mary, while jewish texts denigrate both Jesus Christ and Mary.
That being said, it could be ascertained that Islam is an arabicized form of judaism.
Jews have been kicked out of 109 countries. It is time to repeat the practice for number 110.

wdg
wdg

This is a very good summary. Judaism and Islam are two evil cults that operate as subversive fifth columns in the body of Christian Western Civilization. Islam has been largely exposed to most people of European background but Judaism on the other hand is poorly understood by most people; in fact too many Americans have been brainwashed by 24/7 propaganda on the Holocaust myth, Israel and Judaism. It is no surprise that Jews are promoting the invasion of Muslims into western nations. We will never take back our nations unless Judaism and Islam are both fully exposed as evil doctrines and both are eliminated from our countries. No self-respecting people can allow such subversive and hateful cults to operate freely in our countries. The task is to expose Judaism, show the link between Judaism and the subversion of our Civilization, and implement policies to remove this subversion. Clearly, we cannot allow our political, financial, mass media and cultural and educational institutions to be controlled by people espousing an ideology committed to our destruction as a people. This is only common sense except to the most brainwashed, intellectually challenged or sellouts among us. And there is no shortage of traitors who have been bought off and installed into positions of authority…in fact it is pervasive throughout our society.

TJF
TJF

Interesting article. I do not think that Marxism is the end goal in of itself. I think the end goal is total control and Marxism provides a path to a totalitarian state that they desire. Most of the people on the left in this country are not really the true enemy because they are playing the role of unwitting useful pawns. They really think they stand for equality and tolerance and other nice sounding things but they are ignorant and what they are really fighting for is authoritarianism and the suppression of freedom.

Liberty is the enemy of TPTB. An ignorant and obedient population that demands the government take action on every issue is their dream. Nationalism is also an enemy because it interferes with being a Master of the Universe. NK and Iran are examples of countries that presently cannot be controlled by TPTB, so they are constantly vilified and plotted against. I wonder how Japan has been allowed to remain Japanese, but I suppose with all of their debt, it doesn’t matter as they are under control already and have a culture that seems to take pride in following the rules and being good salary men.

overthecliff
overthecliff

As usual the farmer has written an insightful and accurate article . However, the Cultural Marxists are just the Mafioso who take advantage of the people who want to live at the expense of others. We have met the enemy and he is us.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The author mentions the word jew once in the entire article.
Now there’s the problem.

hardscrabble farmer

Not mine, William Lind wrote this piece, he’s an exceptional researcher and writer who came up with 4G warfare theory- way above my pay grade.

Iconoclast421
Iconoclast421

People are just stupid. Not 1 in 10 people can coherently trace soaring healthcare and education costs back to government policy. Hell, half of them probably couldnt even grasp the meaning of that last sentence. Some ungodly number of people cant find michigan on a map, despite it looking like a frickin mitten. I’m sure there’s someone actually in michigan who couldnt find it on a map…. Culture just sort of blooms like a flower; freedom is the sunlight and natural resources are the fertilizer. Communism is nothing more than a breeze in the grand scheme of things. Nobody is going to buy into that crap until the resources start running scarce. At that point you’re never gonna stop dummies from embracing it and all manner of stupid things.

Dutchman
Dutchman

Hardscrabble has identified many good points – but I don’t think our demise was anything but our own doing.

After WWII, the US boomed. Two car families – hey let’s make a little more money – the Mrs. can get a part time job. Then soon more and more women got full time jobs. Then the price of homes tripled or quadrupled (from 1950’s to 1970). At this point we were fucked – you now needed a two income family just to live like we did in the 1940’s.

Then came LBJ – who created the modern welfare state – I think this put the nail in the coffin – it guaranteed benefits. Finally no-fault divorce. This all led to ‘single mothers’, and no father in the home. The stigma of being pregnant out of wedlock with someone’s bastard child, had no shame.

The Civil Rights act – as good as it sounds – also opened the Pandora’s Box. All of a sudden, everyone had all kinds of rights – these rights went so far left we now have girls on boys wrestling teams.

The family structure began to fall apart, the schools became more like daycare. And they now teach less and less.

Finally we have fallen for the question: Well what’s wrong with _______, as long as it’s not hurting anyone. We have lost the culture to comparative arguments.

As I said in another post: When anything goes – everything goes.

Ghost

Pretty good bullet summary, Dutchman, but teachers unions and the creation of the education ministry, um, I mean cabinet secretary probably deserved a nod.

HerrHimmler

Everyone seems content to point fingers and swing the sword wildly at the tentacles of the beast, but no one has the courage to thrust the sword into the heart, or even accurately identify the beast. So, we’ll continue to fiddle as Rome burns to the ground. Maybe we could write a group letter to our Congressman, or maybe organize a protest in a “free speech” zone.

AC
AC

We’re past that, but not yet at Siege. Some of us have certainly identified the enemy.

Historically, political movements the Beast finds unpalatable, have been manipulated into directionless violent militancy, and destroyed – often after the leader of the movement was assassinated.

We can’t initiate violence. We can, however, turn the various aspects of the Beast against itself. This is far more effective than anything else we can presently do.

Ghost

Watched it Yo. Wow.

Mad as hell
Mad as hell

Our biggest enemy right now is the Fed. Lets face it, most of the productive people in this country are in the “conservative” or Alt-Right side of things. That is just the truth. So, without money printing to support the organs that promote this garbage, they would eventually run out of money. In a functional, non-Potemkin village economy, real production generates money and therefore power. Period. The only thing supporting this on a large scale, and thus making it difficult to topple these “institutions” is the fact that they can simply go to the markets / indebted taxpayers and get more money, whereas the local productive folks actually have to earn it.
Until we have a sound money foundation – whatever that is, the productive class, and thus the alt right / conservatives probably are going to remain at the bottom of the heap. Remember, he who has the gold (in this case, the national currency monopoly) makes the rules.
There is a way that WE can blunt the Fed though. The Fed is a creature of congress. Congress could shut down the Fed tomorrow, or at least seriously curtail their power. They don’t because none of them want to have to cut the credit card. Hence the usual debt ceiling drama (theatrical performance) that occurs ever so often. If, however the Alt Right movement can get enough Alt Right candidates elected, enough to run a bill through that curtails the Feds money printing, then we would see some serious change. Either that, or just let the exponential function take its course, and let the whole thing collapse under its own weight, but that could get messy….

HerrHimmler

Great plan, but let’s review a few facts. 1. Who owns the Fed? 2. Who is the Fed Chairperson? 3.Who has been the past Chairs of the Fed? 4.Who are our legislators beholden to? 5.Who appoints our representatives? 6. Why are you still advocating voting in a broken system that favors only one group?
Answers:
1. The Fed is wholly owned by a cabal of private, jewish owned banks.
2. Presently, Janet Yellen (a Jew) is the head of the Fed.
3. Past heads include Benjamin Shalom Bernanke (Jewish), Alan Greenspan (Jewish).
4. All legislators must sign a loyalty pledge to Israel and obey the wishes of the unregistered foreign lobby group, AIPAC.
5. Rothschild once quipped, allow me to control the purse strings of a nation and I care not who makes the laws. Refer to answer to question four.
6. Knowing all of this, a double-minded person is unstable in all of his or her ways. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck, believe it, it really is a duck. Call it by any other name, it’s still a friggin’ duck.

Mad as hell
Mad as hell

The Fed is not “owned” by anyone. Yes, the banks that make up its board run the place, however congress owns the charter. Look up the law, not the Rothschild’s theories on the interwebs, the LAW.
The enemy is not the “joos” or the “Russians” or anyone else other than looking in the mirror. EVERYONE wants their lifestyle. If that was not true, the medical scam would not exist. Everyone knows that the Medical system is broken to an extreme, but why it does not change comes down to a simple equation – more people are benefiting from it financially than the ones that appose it. If you don’t agree, look up the employment statistics. It is increasingly hard to get a town / city / county to vote themselves out of a job. Same with Government workers, same with bankers etc. Or, for example, look at the outrage that you will hear if some politician wants to close an army base. But, I thought “we” wanted less war? Think about it. Everyone wants “change” – whatever the hell that means – but no one wants a change to “theirs”. All the “joos” and various other intelligent people have done is leverage that human weakness for their own ends. All the “cabal” you speak of is just men / women in high positions that have figured out how selfish “we the people” have become, and are using OUR OWN selfish ways against us. Do you blame the “cabal” for using our own stupidity against us, or blame yourself for being stupid?

MuckAbout

Good article until it descended into word hell and drifted off into left field.

Face it. We have lived through peak prosperity and from here on out, it’s all down hill. Too many rats in the box – hell – when I was a kid, there were 131 million people in this country; now there are over 370 million and growing. The total world population – should they all try and achieve the standard of living that’s now slightly above average in the USA would take the resources of 3(three) earths.

We have fallen prey to the same thing that happens to most reproducing species in a limited space; we have over produced ourselves and tripped the lever to inevitable decline and fall.

And, short of universal birth control, there is n-o-t-h-i-n-g we can do about it. It will require a total change of mental attitude, morals and the demise of religion all of which recognizes the limits of growth to do it and I, for one, do not believe the human race (or the majority of individual human beings for that manner) is nearly smart enough to reason through the problem with sufficient intelligence to recognize the problem, much less take action to arrest the progress of the problem, much less cure it.

Ah, well. Someone else’s bag of shit now!! Old Muck hit his 8th decade yesterday – somewhat passed the expiry date for an average human life span – so I’ll just continue to spout opinion into the air and hope that somewhere, someone younger and stronger will hear, listen and act until such time as the expiry date takes effect and then I’ll vanish as if I was never here!!

Happy 2018 to all..

muck

LGR
LGR

I doubt your notes will be forgotten after your exit, whenever that may be. Admin seems to have made your minutes here an archive too good to disappear. I bet more than a few appreciate that. Count me in that group. Thx.

ursel doran
ursel doran

Folks, there is another quite serious problem that the PC cultural issues seem to be over shadowing.
All of our bought and paid for congress crittters are useless except to do the bidding of who owns them. As one perceptive observer said, they should be wearing coveralls with corporate logo patches so we could see who owns them when in bloviating in front of a camera. Will of the people and their votes is quite meaningless in the face of the many billions of BRIBE money called campaign contributions.
PLEASE watch this one hour video on a courageous whistle blower laying out the Shadow Government, aka Deep State.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_igG504O3Y

Penforce

I don’t buy any of the cultural Marxist BS. “Eros and Civilization” became the text of the 60s? Marcuse subverted the anti-war movement? I call bullshit. Absofuckinglutely nothing is ever that simple. No where is greed or stupidity mentioned. How about lobbyists buying my legislators? Why follow the cultural Marxists when the money trail circles our sick society? The www speeds up the process of rot, just like a little added oxygen warms up the compost pile. Another Marxist conspiracy; somebody should write a book. I think Lind can scoot his chair back to academia, Dutchman came closer on this one. Nobody stole our culture, we gave it away.

Dutchman
Dutchman

@Penforce: Nobody stole our culture, we gave it away

Now 2018, California, you can change you sex on your drivers license, when ever you want. Next year in 2019, you can also have ‘non-binary’ as your sex. Cali’s right at the top of giving every last bit of common sense away.

Zarathustra

The timing of this is funny. For the past two days, my twitter has been exploding. Normally I get a couple of notifications a day. Now I am getting literally hundreds. All on this subject. Jews, the holocaust, Zionism. Neocons. It may have started with some comments of mine…I dont know. But what has been happening is a few zionist jews and israel defenders getting absolutely destroyed with fact after fact.
Perhaps we are beginning to enter a phase I have predicted for a long time…people waking up to what the zionazis have done to us for decades.

HerrHimmler

They are perhaps waking up to the fact that nearly everything we’ve been taught about history is a stinking lie. History is written by the victors, never by the vanquished. This is only for those who have the scales removed from their eyes. If Adolf Hitler was fighting the communists, why did the U.S. enter the war as an ally of Communist Russia, and then invaded Korea and Viet Nam to stop the “threat” of communism?
The American people were lied into World War I (the war to end of wars, hah!), lied into World
War II, the Korean “police” action, the Viet Nam war, the Persian gulf war, the Syrian conflict, etc. One must ask the question “just how dumb can the American people be to repeatedly be fooled, time after time by the same cadre of cutthroats that reap the harvest of war through the sacrificial blood of the ignorant goyim?

hardscrabble farmer

You do know that there is no plebiscite when it comes to armed conflicts, right.

Zarathustra

That just proves TBP is ahead of the curve. Peep dis, fo’ We bes da future an shit!

AnarchoPagan
AnarchoPagan

Christianity has no future as an organizing principle for society or a foundation for Western civilization. Among those in the upper half of the intelligence distribution, it is dying and not coming back. It is contradicted and negated by too much available evidence. What is needed is a new philosophical basis to support moral behavior. As a philosophy, it doesn’t need to be understood by everyone, but it does need to be understood and embraced by cultural leaders, such as teachers, judges, legislators, etc. I happen to like Hoppe’s approach of argumentation ethics, but I’d be happy to hear about alternatives.

And yes, the problem is some small percentage of the JOOOOOS.

rocky raccoon
rocky raccoon

Maybe you dismiss Christianity as a basis for culture, but 100’s of millions of others do not.

Stucky

I think it’s kind of funny that many/most of you want a separate culture.

Not that I think it’s a bad idea. I’d rather be with my own kind as much as anyone.

But, we already see a group of people with their own culture, separated from us. Can you guess? No, not the Amish (although it’s true). DA JOOOOOS!!! That’s right, don’t bust a vein in your head, cuz it’s the damn truth.

I bring it up because it shows the dangers that it entails. Those who separate themselves from others can wind up being ostracized, and then hated …. especially if they are and stay a minority. And that’s what we would be, a permanent minority. Careful what you wish for.

Zarathustra
Ghost

Stucky, Dearest? Have you ever written anything or seen anything particularly well-done comparing the Opium Wars and Dollar Diplomacy in China and our current opiate epidemic, creating a market for heroin grown in Afganistan guarded by US troops?

I’m looking at a few things now and wondering how to narrow the subject matter a bit.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/9-facts-may-not-know-british-opium-wars-mm.html

Stucky

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Grog
Grog

Maggie, You might try Ron Holland.
He’s written more than a bit about some of these items.
ex: Why Everybody’s Going To War in the Middle East
By Ron Holland – August 27, 2012
stepping stone to other leads

BB

I’m glad Most of you finally learned something from me .!! The vast majority Jews are guilty of treason.Not all but most.Go to any Jewish sites and look at the comments.The hatred for us goys has to come from a super natural source.
They will forever hate us simply because we are white tradition “Christians ” with a culture that supports private property. They hate the other ” people of color ” as much but see them as more manageable.

Stucky

“Go to any Jewish sites and look at the comments.”

I’ll second that.

Many times research for my religious articles will take me to Jewish web pages. The vitriol against Christians/Christianity can be quite ugly. Even moderate commenters show disdain and disrespect. Sometimes I leave those sites and think “those focken Joo bastards!”

Zarathustra

You may be interested in this, Stucky. It has been noted that the 6 million figure cited for the holocaust has been listed at least a dozen times since the 19th century for other supposed tragedies. I found the source. In the Torah it says, “The gematria (numerical value) of teshuva is 708 (tav = 400; shin = 300; bet = 2; vav = 6). Therefore the missing vav in the word תשבה, as written in the Torah (which equals the number 6) was a prophecy that the Jews would be allowed to return to Israel minus 6 million of our people: “You shall return minus 6 million.’ ” This is from a Rabbi’s website.

https://ourjewishagenda.weebly.com/the-shoah.html

So there you have it. There had to be six million deaths in order to justify the state of israel. The Holohoax becomes one more zionist lie that we can put to bed.

Uncola

Good article, but I am surprised no reference was made to the inverse “Plymouth Rock” -style landing of the Frankfurt School at Columbia University in 1933 (after the Nazi’s closed the institute at Goethe University). The attack has been multi-pronged: cultural as described above, economic via Cloward-Piven and the expansion of the welfare state; and political through the later leaders like Saul Alinsky, Gloria Steinem, Bill Ayers, Obama, the Clintons, et al.

Don’t be fooled by the orthodoxies of the messengers.

Grog
Grog

Don’t forget the Fabian Society.
There are many tentacles emanating from the Medusa, Marxian thought.

“The Fabian Society was founded on 4 January 1884 in London as an offshoot of a society founded a year earlier called The Fellowship of the New Life. Early Fellowship members included the visionary Victorian elite, among them poets Edward Carpenter and John Davidson, sexologist Havelock Ellis, and early socialist Edward R. Pease. …
The Fabian Society additionally advocated renewal of Western European Renaissance ideas and their promulgation throughout the world.”

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“But the general idea is that each man should have power according to his knowledge and capacity. […] And the keynote is that of my fairy State: From every man according to his capacity; to every man according to his needs. A democratic Socialism, controlled by majority votes, guided by numbers, can never succeed; a truly aristocratic Socialism, controlled by duty, guided by wisdom, is the next step upwards in civilisation.”
— Annie Besant, a Fabian Society

The Society is affiliated to the Party as a socialist society. In recent years the Young Fabian group, founded in 1960, has become an important networking and discussion organisation for younger (under 31) Labour Party activists and played a role in the 1994 election of Tony Blair as Labour Leader.

nkit
nkit

In what, I suppose, could only be described as an act of self torture, I have been slogging through Herbert Marcuse’s book titled “One-Dimensional Man” for the last month or so. Can’t really call it a page turner. A bunch of wordy phenomenological bullshit. He and his friends decided that when Germany, er , Hitler chased them off, that it would be just as satisfying to destroy American culture as German culture, and besides, there would be little resistance to their anti-western hatred in America, thanks to the rise of progressivism on this side of the pond..

He was, and his followers are, pure evil. Send them back to from whence they came, just like some other “folks.”

HerrHimmler

The Khazarian jews are not of Aryan or European descent. They are Turko-mongol “round skulls,” as opposed to the true Israelites of the Christian Bible, whose thirteen tribes were all of Caucasian descent. The Khazarian jews hijacked the Christian Bible’s claims for Israel and are indeed the imposters that have created nothing but chaos and destruction throughout history. Ladies and gentlemen, these creatures are the true destroyers of nations, cultures, races, economies, and lives of people who have had the misfortune to fall under their brutal occupation.
Just ask any Palestinian what it’s like to live under a merciless thug regime that has no regard for human lives and delights in meting out human suffering on an unimaginable scale.
We have been commanded to love the good, but hate what is evil. The Khazarian jews are evil incarnate and will continue to destroy until they are removed from the nations. Those who plot against us are of Khazarian descent and have no place among us. Over 100 nations have sent them into exile throughout history, do you think they may have done something wrong?

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