Thread by @sillymickel

“Ch 11,” titled “Culture War Allegory:

“Reversing the Invasion of the Body Snatchers...to Follow or Not to Follow the Script”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

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

by Michael Adzema

(pub. 10/2022)

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CW22Q 11/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website now & being published Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 11/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…we are beginning to see a metaphor for psychological realities & that ‘following the script’ has a broader meaning for a choice that everyone must make in life in growing up,..”

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CW22Q 11/3

“…specifically, to follow the script laid out for oneself by one’s parents & society in general or to follow one’s inner direction & inner guide in asserting one’s individuality & expressing one’s unique self.”

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CW22Q 11/4

“These Blue Meanies, esp their leader, are depicted as powerful & cruel, yet sniveling, insecure, weak, & selfish underneath. Their angry & oppressive personas are shown to reveal poor little whining babies behind them.”

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CW22Q 11/5

“The actions [of the Blue Meanies] are shown to be those of ‘big babies,’ whose gruff exterior must remain intact at all costs, lest their hidden sniveling & hurt little selves be revealed.”

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CW22Q 11/6

“The analogy the Beatles are making to those of the WWII Generation—at that time the parental generation, those ‘over 30’—is impossible not to make.”

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CW22Q 11/7

“…in recent history, despite the increasing drum beating of the Religious Right in the last three decades,..”

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CW22Q 11/8

“…those of us who grew up in the Fifties know that the introduction of sex—in the Sixties, as in the ‘sexual revolution’—was a step forward from the hypocritical sameness & plodding repression of the Fifties.”

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CW22Q 11/9

“The underlying factor that was introduced into the movie causing color & that was also introduced into our society causing all the sociocultural changes that we, usually, complain about…”

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CW22Q 11/10

“[The underlying factor that was introduced into the movie causing color] is the factor of choosing something different than what is expected by society, than what is expected by the outside.”

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CW22Q 11/11

“What is introduced in the movie—as it was introduced in our culture—is the preeminence of inner authority in making decisions, as opposed to outer authority.”

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CW22Q 11/12

“The black-and-white 50s Pleasantville is a representation of a mode of child-rearing—which characterized the 50s—wherein the role of the parents is to ‘mold,’ model, & guide children along paths the parents have deemed to be correct—”

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CW22Q 11/13

“[The b & w 50s Pleasantville represents a child-rearing mode wherein the parents’ ‘mold’ children in ways parents deem correct—] called the*socializing mode* of child-rearing. The child is expected to be a clone of the parents, a mini-me….”

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CW22Q 11/14

“By contrast, the colorized Pleasantville represents the mode of child-caring that came out, big time, beginning in the Sixties, wherein the parents’ role is that of ‘bringing out’ from & supporting, encouraging, & helping the child…”

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CW22Q 11/15

“…[helping the child] to discover what the child’s talents & inherent abilities, feelings,& proclivities are, & then encouraging the child to ‘believe in him/herself’…”

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CW22Q 11/16

“…[encouraging the child to ‘believe in him/herself’] in the expression of those inherent & inborn good qualities & values—termed the *helping mode* of child-caring.”

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CW22Q 11/17

“This [helping] mode contains a radically new view of basic human nature. Humans are seen 2b essentially good (even ‘divine’). It is evil & painful events impinging upon the child from the outside—family & society—that are deemed causative…”

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CW22Q 11/18

“…in taking the child from its natural state of innocence & goodness & inherent unique talents to one wherein the child is corrupted & thus becomes bestial & lacking in inherent good qualities & talents.”

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CW22Q 11/19

“Therefore the solution is to protect the child from traumas coming from the outside, especially the huge one of feeling unloved through not being seen or respected as a unique individual...”

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CW22Q 11/20

“…as opposed to being seen as a mere outgrowth or mini-me of a parental entity. & in so doing the parents’ role includes helping the child to discover his or her uniqueness & dispensing unconditional love,..”

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CW22Q 11/21

“…[unconditional love,] that is, love that is given freely, without the requirement, as in the socializing mode, that the child do & be what the parents want before the child is accepted or shown approval or any emotional warmth.”

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CW22Q 11/22

“In representing this advanced mode of being (& child-caring) the ‘colorized’ people in Pleasantville open themselves to possibilities never before considered; they stray from the earlier mode requiring strict conformity to parental scripts.”

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CW22Q 11/23

“Robert Kennedy’s Sixties quote comes to mind as expressing this: ‘Some people look at things as they are & ask, why? I think of things that never were & ask, why not?’”

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CW22Q 11/24

“This means, then, a capacity to experiment & adventure in one’s life, which, at bottom, involve a belief in questioning authority & thinking for oneself in Sixties terms…”

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CW22Q 11/25

“…or, in Carl Jung’s words, a belief that we are, each of us, ‘experiments in truth’ in our sojourns on Earth.

“The whole point of change is that it is always something one does not expect.”

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CW22Q 11/26

“Likewise, when people act out of inner rather than outer authority, one can only expect that what happens will be unique, like people are when they are not conforming to external expectations.”

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CW22Q 11/27

“…this ending expresses the spiritual razor’s edge each of us must cross during our life’s sojourn. Whenever we try to put life, or love, into a box, package,or a gilded cage, it dies or stagnates—just like a boring b&w sitcom world.”

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CW22Q 11/28

“[Whenever we try to put life, or love, into a box, package, or a gilded cage, it dies or stagnates] Real change & spiritual growth means letting go & opening oneself to the unexpected & the unknown.”

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CW22Q 11/29

“One of the reasons the movie, *Pleasantville*, so appealed to me is that its view of current events is so akin to that which I have been expressing in other of my more recent writings...”

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CW22Q 11/30

“…wherein I make the argument that recent events are not evidence of a downfall of civilization, as conservatives as Newt Gingrich & Pat Buchanan would have us believe, but are the necessary ‘birth pains’ of a new age being born.”

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CW22Q 11/31

“Those of us who lived through the Fifties know that the lack of color is an apt metaphor for exactly the way it was at that time.”

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CW22Q 11/32

“[The Fifties world] was a back-and-white world—a world that covered up its underlying nastiness & evil by repression & denial—psychological defense mechanisms that characterized the WWII Generation especially.”

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CW22Q 11/33

“The point in the movie, which is so appealing, is that it causes us to look again at the changes in our society occurring because of the various ‘revolutions’ of postmodern times—civil rights, student antiwar, women’s rights, sexual, etc—”

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CW22Q 11/34

“—& to stop bemoaning the ‘messiness’ that comes with freedom. We have more choice, more freedom now than ever. & this freedom allows us the opportunity for a higher spirituality—some would say the only true spirituality—"

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CW22Q 11/35

“—which involves the harrowing path of deciding for oneself, based upon one’s ability to intuit or “feel” the correct path, & experiencing the consequences of one’s choices, as opposed to the preordained religiosity of following a script.”

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CW22Q 11/36

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 11 of my book,

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

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22Q 11/37

The entire book is available online at the links

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* there.

Feel free to share & pass this book around as you wish

in preparation for the very important Midterm elections.

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CW22Q 11/38

Democrats need to WIN BIG in Nov.

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get the word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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CW22Q 11/39

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing/promoting the book on social media.

And, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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CW22Q 11/40

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