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“Chapter 1,” titled “Smoke, Lies, & Revelations—1950s thru 1970s:

“Politics, Truth, & the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by M Adzema

(pub 9/2022)

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Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website now & to be published Sept 2022)

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[Quotes/highlights:] “This book reminds us of truths we should not forget.” []

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“...with the rise of the power of huge corporations during this period [1950s-1970s], & with competition & profit rapidly eroding all values & making truth the servant of the (always hidden) agenda,..”

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[] “…[with the rise of the power of huge corporations during 1950s - 1970s, & with competition & profit rapidly eroding all values,] factuality & honesty were the first of life’s pillars to be invaded & occupied.” []

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[] “...by the end of the Fifties, Americans were caught between the opposing evils of confusion & anomie, on one side, & being assimilated by corporate culture (“resistance is futile”), on the other....” []

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[] “[M]any suffered through or clung to traditional ways. This would be true specially of the elderly. Many, also, ignored the assaults on the credibility of these institutions over time.” []

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[] “When JFK was assassinated, the floor fell out from beneath aspiring Americans, leaving them empty, directionless, & therefore vulnerable.” []

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[] “Of note is the fact that Democrats would win the popular vote in three out of the last six elections—Al Gore, John Kerry, & Hillary Clinton won the popular vote—& be denied the presidency because of the electoral college.” []

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[] “This trend of popularity for Democrats shows increasing progressive enthusiasm over time laid alongside a concerted effort by the powers-that-be, the moneyed interests, to keep that progressive fervor from manifesting in public policy.” []

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[] “Afterward, however, after Obama’s eight years as president, we saw a repeat of history with the installation into the presidency of Donald J Trump... Trump was W. Bush 2.0.” []

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[] “[Trump was W. Bush 2.0.] Trump’s corruption & illegality ignored the Constitution of the United States & were more severe & consequential, even, than George W. Bush’s.” []

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[] “We will soon see how Barrack Obama was himself, with his “timidity,” the cause of that ascension by Trump in several crucial ways.” []

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[]“This culpability begins w the fact Democrat Barrack Obama & his Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, declined to take up investigations of the crimes the W committed in office & continues right up to the time just b4 the presidential election of 2016.”[]

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[] “...in his memoirs, Barrack Obama delves deeply into whether he had been “too timid” during his terms. For Obama did not release to the public the intelligence community’s discovery of the interference in our election by Russia.” []

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[] “...over the course of those decades since 1970, Americans saw essentially the rise of a one-party government. Corresponding to that, we witnessed a consolidation of the mass media & its subservience,..” []

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[] “…[the mass media & its subservience,] along with the government’s, to that same small group of ppl & powers, aligned with the huge corporations & serving their interests for profits & for enrichment of the already filthy rich.” []

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[]“...since 1973, there was little room in America for any elements that characterized the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason or Rationalism, or the Age of Enlightenment—whose adherents & tenets spawned the American experiment.”[]

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[] “It had become clear to the people at the top that they could better manipulate the masses without free thinkers in the way. They did not want smart people noticing, that’s for sure.” []

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[] “...the government taking over people’s minds, having happened beginning in 1971, is now being done in full view.” []

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[] “Students at my college...Franklin & Marshal College in Lancaster, PA...occupied the Administration building & found the documents—the letters from wealthy benefactors & alumni insisting on this change or they would stop their funding.” []

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[] “This was a concerted effort by the wealthy elite that hit all the liberal arts institutions/universities in America at the exact same time—the spring & summer of 1971.” []

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[]“...the 60s Generation was the last educated generation. The result was that free-thinking generations would no longer be. They would not be encouraged; they would not be fostered; they would not be tolerated; they would not be *allowed*.”[]

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[] “...yes, we are still fighting this Culture War. For not only did it never go away, not only has our side not been heard, not only has the other side pounded our positions into rubble;” []

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[] “[not only has the other side pounded our positions into rubble;] & shouted down, ridiculed, slandered, & misconstrued our points to their own malevolent ends, but.... We ain’t won yet!” []

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