Thread by @sillymickel

Ch 13 "A Culture War Rages:

“Monsters Never Really Die in Horror Flicks...The King on Life Support & The Consequences of an Abomination”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

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

by M Adzema

(pub 10/22)

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CW22Q 13/1

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 13/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “We saw the beginnings of cultural enlightening & progress during Clinton’s term in the Nineties. In retrospect it was a colorful time; it was an enthusiastic time.”

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CW22Q 13/3

“…the installment of the W represented a resurgence, in typical Culture War style, of the dominance of WWII-type oppression & manipulation of the masses.”

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CW22Q 13/4

“[George W. Bush declared president by Supreme Court in 2000, defying the vote count,] was the abortion of the changing of the cultural guard that was naturally occurring."

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CW22Q 13/5

“[Bush declared president by SCOTUS in 2000, defying the vote count,] was the King propped up mechanically, robot-like carrying out the dictums of those who once lived but were no more. It was an abomination of the natural order.”

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CW22Q 13/6

“Like the endings of horror flicks, which leave always a hint or part of the monster living on somehow, thus setting up a possible sequel, the WWII Generation left behind part of itself in the form of the 80s Gen clones & the 50s Gen.”

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CW22Q 13/7

“& these folks aren’t going away any time soon! They are here in Trump & his MAGAts; they are here in Republicans; they are here in the Tea Party; they are here in the wealthy Right;”

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CW22Q 13/8

“they are here in the ownership & guiding principles of the mainstream media, now become principal propagandists of the American patriarchy—the ‘filthy rich.’”

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CW22Q 13/9

“…we saw the rise of the Donald, pushed by his collusion with Russia.”

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CW22Q 13/10

“[the rise of the Donald] set up a 4-year struggle in America, as Trump went about dismantling the democratic norms of our society & the simple rules of fairness in his subjugation to the will of Russia’s Putin.”

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CW22Q 13/11

“[Trump] went so far as to steal nuclear codes & documents, & lists of our spies working in other countries, which for all we know, went into foreign hands, in exchange for some kind of financial or other benefit”

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CW22Q 13/12

“In the second & third decades of the Twenty-First Century, it is the same old Culture War/Class War begun in the Sixties, brought to furious & fiery life.”

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CW22Q 13/13

“This [fury] is what one could expect of a struggle suppressed by decades of domination by untruths would be, as it emerges even angrier for having to wait”

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CW22Q 13/14

“…after everyone has experienced color there is no semblance among them of a wish to return to a black-and-white world.

“In the same way, we might hope that as our society turns more & more away from war-making, selfishness,..”

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CW22Q 13/15

“…[as our society turns more & more away from] race- & sexism, ecological destruction, misogyny—& all the other WWII Generation evils left behind—it will resist that much more strongly their reinstatement by reactionary forces.”

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CW22Q 13/16

“We can hope that as we move more & more toward economic prosperity, peacekeeping, loving our children & having honest relationships, & the reclaiming of our natural environment & ecological balance,..”

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CW22Q 13/17

“…[we can hope that as we progress in these ways,] there will be fewer & fewer who will wish to turn back the times to the unreal black-and-white world of the ‘Blue Meanies.’”

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CW22Q 13/18

“We witnessed such progressive fervor in the phenomenal outpouring of support for Bernie Sanders in both 2016 & 2020. Indeed, polls at the time, in 2016, had Sanders winning in a hypothetical matchup with Trump.”

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CW22Q 13/19

“We have witnessed ‘blue waves’ in both the 2018 midterms & the 2020 presidential election. Which 2020 election, incidentally, saw the most votes ever for a Democratic candidate, Joe Biden.”

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CW22Q 13/20

“Currently, the overturning of Roe V. Wade has stimulated torrents of support for Democrats in primaries & other bellwether elections.”

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CW22Q 13/21

“The results of the referendum on abortion rights, which was won handily—by a whopping 20 percentage points—in red state Kansas by pro-choice forces, comes to mind.”

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CW22Q 13/22

“We can conclude that the majority of Americans want to go forward into a better future, not regress into a sugar-coated version of a dismal 1950s past.”

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CW22Q 13/23

“Sixties Generation values are infectious because they offer so much hope.”

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CW22Q 13/24

“Black political power is what got Biden the nomination & sealed his win over Trump in 2020.”

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CW22Q 13/25

“We witness Blacks continuing to flex their muscles in a phenomenal surge of African-American candidates in 2022 for the highest positions in Congress & government in general.”

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CW22Q 13/26

“…the young will always be idealistic if they are shown any ideals, which is what we can expect the 60s Gen to be doing for them, as Boomers continue taking their seats in the Wise Elders section of the parliament of sociocultural creation.”

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CW22Q 13/27

“…the current frenzied attack from the Right—beginning with the Tea Party rebellion & continuing in the MAGAt support for treasonous Trump—can be seen as a desperate last-ditch battle…”

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CW22Q 13/28

“…[the current frenzied attack from the Right can be seen as a desperate last-ditch battle] in a war they will, depending on the results of the 2022 midterms this year, likely & inevitably lose.”

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CW22Q 13/29

“The bad news is that, similar to the way the Republicans cleaned out the Treasury & left huge deficits & several wars on the desk of the incoming Democratic administration in 2009, thus hobbling it before it began,…”

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CW22Q 13/30

“…[the bad news is that] we have no idea how great will be the destruction left behind from these Culture-War waging, albeit waning, authoritarians in the current context.”

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CW22Q 13/31

“With [the Filthy Rich] gains in stealing from all classes of society below them in their last dying clingings of a dying old guard, a king who simply won’t die, the abominably wealthy are heavy with gold.”

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CW22Q 13/32

“ These disgustingly greedy Controllers of our culture have the means to buy much more influence than their numbers.”

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CW22Q 13/33

“The multitudes are growing in size against these filthy rich regressives. Yet, with their wealth & with the technology & science available now multiplying further thr abilities, thr capacity to control the minds of much of the population…”

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CW22Q 13/34

“…[the Filthy Rich’s capacity, with their exorbitant wealth, to control the minds of much of the population] is magnified beyond anything previously & beyond anyone’s abilities to calculate or foresee.”

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CW22Q 13/35

“…despite the trends toward a natural evolution like we have seen in the past, we might witness a strange aberration—a ‘zombie apocalypse’…”

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CW22Q 13/36

“…[we might witness a strange aberration—a ‘zombie apocalypse’] created out of the thinking of a time long gone comprised of sick ghostly fantasies of a black-and-white golden age that never was.”

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CW22Q 13/37

“…despite the scientific & technological monkey wrenches that might permanently upset a natural order of progression, it is more likely that things will work out as they have most of the time than that we will see an aberrant development.”

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CW22Q 13/38

“There is, after all, at least as much technology & science catalyzing progressive change as that being wielded by the Controllers to mesmerize & better control us.”

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CW22Q 13/39

“With so much change needed, it is easy to forget how much has changed for the positive since the Sixties.”

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CW22Q 13/40

“…with color and, by inference, imagination & thinking for oneself, Pleasantville has become part of a larger world, one in which Pleasantville citizens can participate & in which they can travel & take up residence.”

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CW22Q 13/41

“This represents the global village, the coming together of the interests of all nations in a multicultural world, & the connection of all minds & hearts by means of the Internet & intercultural travel & tourism.”

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CW22Q 13/42

“The global economy will play a positive role, too. Though on its downside, such international trade contributes to the exploitation of resource-providing nations & the decimation of the environment,..”

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CW22Q 13/43

“…we see, as for example in the worldwide economic sanctions against Russia after its invasion of the Ukraine in 2022, that the global economy can also be used as a lever for good, for peace, & as a guard rail for wayward nations.”

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CW22Q 13/44

“Perhaps most of all, this connection to a larger world represents those factors of modern telecommunications & travel that have made the world open to the eyes of all, which is the real reason the Iron Curtain fell,..”

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CW22Q 13/45

“…[transparency of cultures fr telecommunications & travel is] the real reason apartheid was overthrown,the real reason democratic revolution arose to the Middle East & may yet be causative in bringing democracy to places like China & Iran.”

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CW22Q 13/46

“[bringing democracy to places like China & Iran.] This, despite their oppressive propped-up elder-archies, their kings who will not die, their frozen non-renewing social processes.”

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CW22Q 13/47

“…the most potent analogy of all: the World Wide Web, bringing together all peoples of the world into a collective consciousness sharing ideas & together shaping a world, not just a neighborhood, with true democratization of information.”

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CW22Q 13/48

“While there are attempts by the wealthy—Elon Musk’s current bid to take over Twitter, e.g.—to control even the information flow on the internet, it is largely uncontrollable by any wealthy elite of any country or any generation.”

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CW22Q 13/49

“…it is a complete unknown what happens if Musk’s plan to allow paid trolls undeterredly to overwhelm the Internet with misinformation & conspiracy theories.”

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CW22Q 13/50

“With the wealth on their side pushing such a flood of dark & hateful ‘journalism,’ it is debatable what happens to the truth under those conditions. I confess this is one corner of it all into which I am completely unable to see.”

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CW22Q 13/51

“…what we might next expect: The only thing we know for sure is that what is coming will be different from anything we have known.”

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CW22Q 13/52

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 13 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 13/53

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 13/54

Democrats need to WIN BIG in Nov 22

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 13/55

& 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 13/56

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