Its all about the rule of the elite, and since we no longer have a functioning aristocracy, rule by The Credentialed will suit just fine. Marxism, Maoism, Socialism, Whatever-ism.....Its all a cover for the same old same old.
As a class they remind me of the King's kid in "Braveheart". Effete, spoiled, useless, amoral, and dangerous. But with Ivy League degrees.
Mr. Yang's continuing effort to demystify the confusion about, and the propagandist obfuscation of, the forces at play in American life should be supported, reposted, linked, studied and shared at every opportunity. Reporting on actual cause rather than sensationalized blowback is exactly the opportunity subscription journalism provides for a new American national dialogue. The chance to see through the intentional confusing MSM mixed message manufactured reality that daily assaults the American psyche should be celebrated and every effort taken to expand the opportunity.
Excellent and frankly pretty deep piece. I hadn't thought about the destruction of statues and whatnot in quite that way, as destruction of "material manifestations of an earlier era." Regarding the open question at the end, I agree that it is, in fact, an open question. But, it seems to me that what is different in this current case is the more or less continued, seemingly unconscious bowling over of the entire academic apparatus from within.
It is of course true that there are intellectual precursors, but what we're seeing now appears to be the crystalization of successor ideology - probably pretty similar to what happened in ancient Rome around the time when Constantine converted to Christianity.
When the first issue of AMERICAN FLAGG! was published in the summer of 1983, it included an editorial in which I wrote about my strong, avowed, and, to be sure, very personal brand of patriotism. To my surprise and dismay, this text piece was met with sneers from a number of critics, foreign and domestic, which I wrote off at the time as adolescent cynicism maintained and sustained by arrested development.
A decade later, give or take a year, I read Christopher Lasch’s REVOLT OF THE ELITES, which brought those nasty cracks back to mind, and colored my understanding of what might have been the actual reasons for the spray of snide generated by those critics, not representative of comic book enthusiasts, mind, but of the lower rungs of the music and media press then creating the connecting tissue between the various aspects of the entertainment industrial complex.
Reading this piece yesterday reminded me once again of 1983, and of 1994, in its articulation of a number of suspicions, fears and disturbing interpretations of the culture wars that have gone from cold to simmering to hot.
And I do love the idea of the use of the term “Cosmopolitan” in a context that doesn’t reference the rootlessness so often thrown around by the more literate of Jew baiters.
What happened to the two attorneys--Rahman and Mattis--who threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in New York? Would they fall into this category?
Its all about the rule of the elite, and since we no longer have a functioning aristocracy, rule by The Credentialed will suit just fine. Marxism, Maoism, Socialism, Whatever-ism.....Its all a cover for the same old same old.
As a class they remind me of the King's kid in "Braveheart". Effete, spoiled, useless, amoral, and dangerous. But with Ivy League degrees.
The highest vocational security and rewards require being able to do useful things that others can't.
Mr. Yang's continuing effort to demystify the confusion about, and the propagandist obfuscation of, the forces at play in American life should be supported, reposted, linked, studied and shared at every opportunity. Reporting on actual cause rather than sensationalized blowback is exactly the opportunity subscription journalism provides for a new American national dialogue. The chance to see through the intentional confusing MSM mixed message manufactured reality that daily assaults the American psyche should be celebrated and every effort taken to expand the opportunity.
Excellent and frankly pretty deep piece. I hadn't thought about the destruction of statues and whatnot in quite that way, as destruction of "material manifestations of an earlier era." Regarding the open question at the end, I agree that it is, in fact, an open question. But, it seems to me that what is different in this current case is the more or less continued, seemingly unconscious bowling over of the entire academic apparatus from within.
It is of course true that there are intellectual precursors, but what we're seeing now appears to be the crystalization of successor ideology - probably pretty similar to what happened in ancient Rome around the time when Constantine converted to Christianity.
When the first issue of AMERICAN FLAGG! was published in the summer of 1983, it included an editorial in which I wrote about my strong, avowed, and, to be sure, very personal brand of patriotism. To my surprise and dismay, this text piece was met with sneers from a number of critics, foreign and domestic, which I wrote off at the time as adolescent cynicism maintained and sustained by arrested development.
A decade later, give or take a year, I read Christopher Lasch’s REVOLT OF THE ELITES, which brought those nasty cracks back to mind, and colored my understanding of what might have been the actual reasons for the spray of snide generated by those critics, not representative of comic book enthusiasts, mind, but of the lower rungs of the music and media press then creating the connecting tissue between the various aspects of the entertainment industrial complex.
Reading this piece yesterday reminded me once again of 1983, and of 1994, in its articulation of a number of suspicions, fears and disturbing interpretations of the culture wars that have gone from cold to simmering to hot.
And I do love the idea of the use of the term “Cosmopolitan” in a context that doesn’t reference the rootlessness so often thrown around by the more literate of Jew baiters.
What happened to the two attorneys--Rahman and Mattis--who threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in New York? Would they fall into this category?