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“Ch 16,” titled, “Your Mind Made Fertile for the Planting of Lies:

“Power Vs Passion, Money Versus Authenticity—Opposing Ways of Changing America”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

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

(pub 10/22)

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CW22Q 16/1

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 16/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…we do have these preconceptions about status & money that affects what we think is more important or powerful.”

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CW22Q 16/3

“[these preconceptions about status & money] affect what we think of as ‘real’ & ‘real world’ versus what is considered silly or superfluous...‘flaky’...‘kumbaya.”‘“

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CW22Q 16/4

“[With Obama’s election,] people could feel again, some for the first time, that they had the power in their passion & numbers to throw off the shackles of the Filthy Rich. Unbelievable.”

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CW22Q 16/5

““We’ve got to be emotional…. It’s time we used our emotions & become incensed! Otherwise, we’re not going to make it.”—Helen Caldicott

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CW22Q 16/6

“Only people know just how to change the world.”—John Lennon

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CW22Q 16/7

“The public’s power could be stirred only by these facts coming out & becoming widely known.”

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CW22Q 16/8

““…we all have these prejudices regarding what is deemed powerful & important. We all have stuff from childhood that makes us shrink before authority, cower before money, status, & power.”

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CW22Q 16/9

“We all have irrational ideas magnifying the power of our oppressors, telling us to obey, to not question, to go along with that which others would have of us but which is not in our own interest & in fact brings suffering into our lives.”

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CW22Q 16/10

“& on top of all that, these early imprints & social teachings would have us rationalize our subjugation & deny our felt experience, ever fending off inner & outer information—"

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CW22Q 16/11

“…[these early imprints & social teachings would have us deny our felt experience, ever fending off inner & outer information—] clues threatening to our precious conscious untruths & instilled self-sabotaging beliefs & notions.”

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CW22Q 16/12

“I have never seen Americans so busy...so busy & so preoccupied.”

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CW22Q 16/13

“Busy, busy all the time is now required for survival concerns. There was a time when you might be really motivated...you’d see ppl that were really striving...trying hard to be a big success or something like that. But it wasn’t *required*.”

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CW22Q 16/14

“There is also the increased paper load, the mountains of red tape, which is also filling up the supposed ‘free time’ of the average American.”

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CW22Q 16/15

“…with exorbitantly more paperwork, there’s less time for thought, less time to think. We’re busy, & we’re nervous. Why? We got a lot of red tape, we got a lot of things to do. We’re under stress…. “

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CW22Q 16/16

“…over time, even this linking to the common good was not necessary, so the tax codes got exceedingly more convoluted & hopelessly contradictory, essentially lacking any reason. We all know that. It’s a dead document, so to speak,...”

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CW22Q 16/17

“…which [tax codes] would never, ever, ever be able to be brought back to rational health, so riddled with myriad kinds of cancers which are special interest convolutions of its elements so that it would be impossible to excise them all.”

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CW22Q 16/18

“…the tax code is hopelessly brain dead, & everyone knows it. Any former link to fairness, reasonableness, or coherency has been severed;”

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CW22Q 16/19

“…[the tax code] has become a coffin into which anything can be thrown & in which any corporate wish can be granted. The country has now turned completely into the hands of the corporations….”

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CW22Q 16/20

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 16 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 16/21

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 existentially important Midterm elections

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CW22Q 16/22

Democrats need to WIN BIG 11/8/22

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 16/23

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

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The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

&, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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CW22Q 16/24

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