Thread by @sillymickel

*Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

(available on website now & 2b published Sept 2022)

Quotes/Highlights THREAD from Chapter 10, titled,

“The King Won’t Die”:

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CW22Q 10/1

Chapter 10:

“The King Won’t Die”:

“Attack of the Body-Snatchers...an Aborted Changing of the Guard”

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CW22Q 10/2

[Quotes/highlights:] “...[the Sixties Generation] were biding their time, waiting—sometimes hopeless that it would ever arrive—for a reversing of the pendulum…”

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CW22Q 10/3

“...[the Sixties Generation were biding their time, waiting for a reversing of the pendulum] & a return in society to the ideals & visions of a better world that had so inspired them in their earlier years.”

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CW22Q 10/4

“...[the Sixties Generation] would wonder, as decades passed, why it took so long for the rest of society to catch on to what they felt was an inviting & appealing evolution—one both necessary & therefore inevitable as well.”

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CW22Q 10/5

“Another reason these terms depicting cultural division, specifically, *generation gap* & *counterculture*, went into disuse was due to the mobilization of the World War Two Generation—after their initial phase of somnolent confusion…”

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CW22Q 10/6

“…over the events that were emerging in the 60s which left them paralyzed & watching, growing in irritation & anger—into a comprehensive counterattack against the 60s Generation, using all the Nixonian-like tactics in thr arsenal....”

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CW22Q 10/7

“In the early Seventies, the World War Two Generation used their power & wealth, being themselves in the triumphant phase of their lives, to put pressure on colleges & universities, nationwide, to discontinue the programs,..”

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CW22Q 10/8

“[In the early 70s, the WWII Generation used their power & wealth to put pressure on colleges & universities, nationwide to discontinue the programs,] courses, & the professors that they felt were responsible for the youth’s rebellion.”

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CW22Q 10/9

“A transformation of colleges & universities into “career mills”—whose primary function was to prepare the young for practical & skill-oriented jobs & professions—was called for...or else!”

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CW22Q 10/10

“The youth produced by these institutions would hereafter be dissuaded from thinking for themselves & from “questioning authority”—as the previous generation had been encouraged to do....”

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CW22Q 10/11

“...the wave of youth that followed the Sixties Generation [Yuppies & Gen X] would be molded, in their college years, into distant replicas of World War Two Generation members.”

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CW22Q 10/12

“They [Gen X Yuppies] would be termed the “Me Generation,” since selfishness, greed, money-as-god, & upward mobility were characteristics of the WWII Generation that they were able to instill in their youthful clones.”

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CW22Q 10/13

“...beginning in the early 70s, institutions of higher learning turned away from their idealistic goals of “bringing out” from the students their inner truths & wisdom (which is the original meaning of the term *educate*),..”

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CW22Q 10/14

“[*educate*,] which is the avowed role of liberal arts programs, & instead turned hard, to the right, onto a path of churning out engineers, MBAs, hard scientists…”

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CW22Q 10/15

“…(even in the field of psychology, where humanistic psychology was shunned), medical professionals, lawyers, & the like.”

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CW22Q 10/16

“...these frightened & wealthy WWII “conspirators” (however unconscious their alliance) would use their leverage to ensure that books & the media...would expound their views predominantly, would present events through the particular…”

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CW22Q 10/17

“…psychological lenses & filters with which they were familiar, & would eschew viewpoints, & even coverage of events, that would in any way strengthen the stance of the, by this time, scapegoated Sixties Generation.”

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CW22Q 10/18

“Controlling the media in this way & saying it long & loud enough, the “big lie” of the “conservative backlash” began to be accepted as truth. & even many in the counterculture & among the youth began to believe it.”

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CW22Q 10/19

“...with Trump we see a division in the country corresponding roughly with generational lines, with both sides actively & passionately fighting back the gains of the other side.”

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CW22Q 10/20

“Every generation, at some point, leaves or is removed from their seats of power when they are at or near the end of their arc of effectiveness & prowess by a younger generation that is coming into or—”

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CW22Q 10/21

“—as in the unusual case of the Sixties Generation for the reasons unique to this time to be mentioned below—is fully in the prime of its life.”

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CW22Q 10/22

“The triumphant phase of the Sixties Generation had been delayed, however, longer than any other generation in history because of the advances in modern medical science,..”

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CW22Q 10/23

“…[the 60s Gen had been delayed, however, longer than any other generation in history because of the advances in modern medical science,] which served to keep the WW2 Generation alive & kicking longer than any previous generation.”

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CW22Q 10/24

“...the WWII Generation might be said to have been more threatened than any previous one by the generation to succeed them,.."

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CW22Q 10/25

“…because the ascendancy of the next generation [the 60s Generation] appeared to overturn & oftentimes reverse so much of what [the WWII Generation] believed, valued, worked & sacrificed for.”

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CW22Q 10/26

“...the WWII Gen used their longevity for all thr worth to block the ascendancy of their successors. They used thr longevity to amass wealth & power—wealth greater than any previous generation before and, bc of their actions, likely to come.”

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CW22Q 10/27

“...the World War Two Generation used their unprecedented wealth & power to wage a war against the generation [the 60s Generation] who would be taking over from them,..”

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CW22Q 10/28

“…keeping [the 60s Generation] & their values under attack & away from the centers of power & influence in society as long as they possibly could.”

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CW22Q 10/29

“...your position on the abortion issue is the closest thing to a military uniform indicating on which side of the Culture War you have enlisted.”

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CW22Q 10/30

“Specifically, I am saying that there are few of the Sixties Generation who would not classify themselves as “pro-choice.””

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CW22Q 10/31

“Meanwhile, the anti-abortionists are found to primarily comprise those of the WWII Generation, their 80s Generation clones, & the Eisenhower-Presley-McCarthy—& now we might add “Pleasantville”—50s Generation.””

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CW22Q 10/32

“The WWII Generation, especially after the elections of November 1998, learned that it was way off in some of its assumptions, that their analysis of what had been happening in this country was woefully miscalculated.”

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CW22Q 10/33

“[The WWII Gen] were like the deluded schizophrenic who believed passionately in the world he himself created coming up against some of the hard, harsh, & indisputable facts of existence which undermine his world.”

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CW22Q 10/34

“The WWII-Gen–minded—whatever the individual’s age, & esp now, thr underlings of the 50s Gen—have been fighting back, since the 90s, w all the firepower they can muster against realizing the harsh realities around them of thr waning ideals.”

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CW22Q 10/35

“[The WWII Gen & the Filthy Rich] have been in total & absolute denial of the direction of the American, indeed the world, consciousness; & they have been flinging all their wealth into the mix to try to repress the emerging truths.”

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CW22Q 10/36

“But we shouldn’t be surprised if we see some of those in their ranks—wealthy & facing their inevitable demise—merely increasing the ferocity of their war waging...humiliating themselves & seeming ever more pitiful…”

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CW22Q 10/37

“…[the Filthy Rich, humiliating themselves & seeming ever more pitiful] in the minds of the majority of observers, who increasingly, as time continues to decimate thr WWII & 50s Gen ranks, are younger than they & do not share thr delusions.”

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CW22Q 10/38

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