Thread by @sillymickel

“Ch 12,” titled “Cultural Rebirth, Aborted:

“It’s a Not so Wonderful Life for the WWII Generation...yet the King Refuses to Die”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

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

by Michael Adzema

(pub 10/2022)

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CW22Q 12/1

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 12/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “*It’s a Wonderful Life* is beloved & timeless, no doubt, because it reassures an entire generation & all those who have had to give up their dreams for whatever reason that their sacrifices were for a higher good…”

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CW22Q 12/3

“…& that it is a wonderful life after all.”

“In one way or another, the situation in the Forties, with the war effort & afterwards, created a generation who, except for the rare individual or one of unusual circumstances,..”

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CW22Q 12/4

“…[the situation in the 40s, with the war effort, created a generation who] was called upon to step up into mature responsible tasks long before the idealism of their youth would have preferred that they do so.”

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CW22Q 12/5

“[The WWII] generation is scarred for having missed this opportunity [of youthful idealism & freedom]. They are individuals deserving of our sympathy; yet crippled they were, nonetheless.”

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CW22Q 12/6

“Pearl Harbor Day, when [the WWII Gen's] fate was inevitably forged, when it became clear that for the second time the light of individual freedom would be extinguished, would become an important marker in their lifetimes—"

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CW22Q 12/7

“—[Pearl Harbor Day would become for the WWII Generation] a day almost as much to be memorialized as their birthdays.”

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CW22Q 12/8

“…we can pity the World War Two Generation. As in John Updike’s *The Centaur*, the World War Two Generation is depicted as a generation that was required to give up its dreams & do its ‘duty,’ above all.”

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CW22Q 12/9

“[The WWII Generation] was required to carry out a script given to them by their society, not allowing them to follow their natural youthful ideals.”

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CW22Q 12/10

“& as in Updike’s novel, [the WWII Generation] are beaten down in a life that is regimented & has no ‘color,’ spark, life, idealism, or dreams. They have become the robot-like residents of Pleasantville.”

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CW22Q 12/11

“But Updike points out that [the WWII Gen's] sacrifice, despite the personal tragedy of it on the individual scale, is both necessary & noble in that it makes possible the realization of dreams by the generation to which they gave birth.”

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CW22Q 12/12

“…it is women who are the real instigators, the least threatened by change.”

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CW22Q 12/13

“…women..are the real instigators, the least threatened by change.

“As in the *hundredth monkey phenomenon*, it is first the young, especially females, who are open to new experiences, ways, & ideas.”

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CW22Q 12/14

“Then it is adult females—in this movie exemplified by Betty Parker, the mother of Bud & Mary Sue—who are next to consider alternatives & new ways. Adult males are the last to turn to color, but among them it is the sensitive of heart….”

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CW22Q 12/15

“This rebellious act by the artist is reminiscent of antiwar demonstrators, who got fired upon at Kent State; of civil rights demonstrators, who police attacked w dogs;”

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CW22Q 12/16

“[This rebellious act by the artist is reminiscent] of Tienanmen Square demonstrators, who were rolled over by tanks, shot, & killed; of Black Lives Matters protesters, who were tear gassed, pepper sprayed, & plowed into with cars;”

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CW22Q 12/17

“& most defiant of all the courageous men & women of the Middle East risking thr lives for freedom, & the Occupy & Antifa heroes throughout the world putting thr bodies in front of, arguably, the most dire, widespread fascism ever to exist.”

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CW22Q 12/18

“Big Bob’s Chamber of Commerce represents MAGAts, Trumpers, Republicans, Tea Partiers, & those in general in our society who have succumbed to the rewards & threats of the World War Two Generation, & their Fifties Gen/ Gen X clones.”

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CW22Q 12/19

“They are the ones induced to live a regimented, robot-like, unfeeling, passionless life; to become one of J. D. Salinger’s ‘phonies’; to abide by outdated & misconstrued idea of ‘family values’;”

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CW22Q 12/20

“& above all to ‘behave’ & not do anything to rock the boat of the status quo which might threaten the privileges of those currently enjoying power & wealth handed down, mostly, by heredity.”

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CW22Q 12/21

“The events in China’s Tiananmen Square more than thirty years ago so affected & still affects some of us here in America because we know at some level we have experienced it before.”

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CW22Q 12/22

“What happened in China three decades ago [Tiananmen Square] is so much like what happened in the U.S. five decades ago, somewhat less graphically, around the Vietnam War demonstrations.”

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CW22Q 12/23

“…the result of both was the same: In both cases the opposition, the youth movement, crushed—violently in China, subtly & behind the scenes in the US—at the command of an octogenarian generation,..”

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CW22Q 12/24

“…[ the youth movement, crushed, at the command of an octogenarian generation] clinging desperately to power as much as to their waning physical frames.”

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CW22Q 12/25

“…we no longer assassinate our president as we did with JFK, we character assassinate instead, as we did with Bill Clinton.”

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CW22Q 12/26

“The Filthy Rich, in collusion with Russia, aimed their weapons, as well, against Hillary Clinton who received all the ridicule & vicious slander imaginable...and oh, let us not forget those emails *guffaw*.”

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CW22Q 12/27

“And currently the lie-making machine on the Right is pumping out propaganda against Joe Biden who also—though he had been the poorest person in the Senate & who famously took the train to & from Washington every day—”

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CW22Q 12/28

“—[Joe Biden] has been charged with making money hand over fist, somehow. In some imaginary world.”

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CW22Q 12/29

“We see in this Trump era, with Russian misinformation & slander allowed to be flooding our social media, there is not a 2nd thought given about making up the most outrageous charges—pedophilia in pizza store basements that don’t exist, e.g.”

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CW22Q 12/30

“…the results in both countries are the same. They involve the ultimate victory of sociocultural change in both instances being delayed until the dying off of an elderly generation in power—”

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CW22Q 12/31

“—a generation refusing to die or hand over the controls at the proper time like the generations before them. Simply, the king won’t die!”

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CW22Q 12/32

“Time is running out for the octogenarians & ninety-somethings on either side of the Pacific.”

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CW22Q 12/33

“…we will look at how the WWII Gen kept themselves alive longer than any other generation & how they used that longevity to buy & clone their ideas into the generations following them.”

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CW22Q 12/34

“In fact, the way the media portrays it, the world that the WWII Generation created, as manifested in the Fifties—the Fifties style of culture—is the one against which all happenings are to be measured.”

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CW22Q 12/35

“The Fifties, we are led to believe through incessant repetition, is what is ‘normal.’ This is the narrative the money of the 50s & WWII Gens has managed to embed in media minds,..”

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CW22Q 12/36

“…[That the U.S. in the Fifties is what is ‘normal’ is the narrative the Filthy Rich have embedded in media minds,] as networks continue to broadcast the same naïve & silly sitcoms from the Fifties & early Sixties to new generations.”

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CW22Q 12/37

“…this looking to a former time for values is a repudiation of all generations after who grew up in different times & who have evolved along with an evolving cultural & global environment.”

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CW22Q 12/38

“This refusal to ‘die,’ to turn over the reins of society to younger generations, is indeed an abomination. It represents the WWII & 50s Gens worldviews being propped up mechanically,..”

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CW22Q 12/39

“…though the sand beneath their beliefs is continually washed away. This tension between obsolete old ideas that refuse to die & new ones needed for progress & survival is what we look at next. A Culture War rages.”

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CW22Q 12/40

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 12 of my new 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 12/41

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 12/42

Democrats need to WIN BIG in November

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

& for the life on this planet

You may use ur 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 12/43

& 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 12/44

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