Thread by @sillymickel

PART THREE

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

by Michael Adzema

“Cultural Rebirth, Aborted”

beginning with

Chapter 10

“The King Won’t Die:

“Attack of the Body-Snatchers…an Aborted Changing of the Guard”

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CW22 10/1

[*Chapter 10 text begins:*] What do these events have in common? The popularity of Democrats since the 90s, with Obama’s favorability ratings high despite US entanglement in several wars; the astounding progress in race relations…”

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CW22 10/2

“…exemplified by ever increasing numbers of African-Americans elected & appointed to the highest posts in US government since the 90s, highlighted by the election of the 1st ever black president in the most lopsided victory in decades;”

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CW22 10/3

“*America Getting Free, Breaking Out*

“...the wild success of the Occupy Wall Street & Wisconsin union movements;”

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CW22 10/4

“massive demonstrations around the U.S., attended by hundreds of thousands at times, in favor of liberal Democratic causes & opposing Republicans & showing people carrying signs displaying the peace symbol;”

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CW22 10/5

“outpourings of peaceful pro-freedom & democracy protesters throughout the Middle East & North Africa; the reborn popularity of the “peace sign”—two fingers extended in a V-like shape, for those who don’t know—”

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CW22 10/6

“—including saying “peace” while extending it as a greeting (most often these days, when leaving); the phenomenal outpouring of support for Black Lives Matter in 2020;”

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CW22 10/7

“...renewed interest in the book, *Catcher in the Rye*; the nostalgia for Sixties & Seventies cultural accouterments as exemplified by the TV show, *That 70s Show*;”

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CW22 10/8

“the resurgence of fashion items like bell-bottoms and, on women, clunky high-heel shoes; the movies *Pleasantville* & *The Truman Show*; the popularity in the Nineties of shows like *Ally McBeal* & *The X Files*;”

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CW22 10/9

“...one-time 60s activist Bill Clinton’s 60-some percent approval rating throughout almost the entirety of the White House Sex Scandal alongside the pundits’ complete & total befuddlement as to the causes for it;”

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CW22 10/10

“the strong presidential run by a woman, also with roots solidly in Sixties activism, Hillary Clinton, in the 2008 Presidential race...significantly only beat out, & barely, by an African-American;”

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CW22 10/11

“...the passage of medical use of marijuana laws in a number of states & legalization of marijuana initiatives; the return to ballad-style, Dylan-esque music embracing & expressing social, philosophical, & extremely intimate….”

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CW22 10/12

“…personal views & experiences. We’ve also seen, in California, the passage of Proposition 10—the ballot measure that imposes a fifty-cents tax on cigarettes to fund programs for young children...which ballot measure, significantly enough,..”

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CW22 10/13

“…was begun by Sixties-Generation representative Rob Reiner—formerly Meathead from *All in the Family*! The passage of single payer health insurance in Vermont.… I could go on.”

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CW22 10/14

“*America in Chains, Breaking Down*

“On the other side of this we have seen, in the last three decades, several “Republican revolutions” taking the opposite side on women’s issues, union & worker’s rights,..”

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CW22 10/15

“…[& taking the opposite side on] environmental policy, health care & education, budget & economic issues benefiting the poor & middle class, & all other “liberal” causes;”

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CW22 10/16

“...the rise of a media-supported Tea Party movement, heavily funded by wealthy & corporate interests, espousing wildly reactionary & regressive measures like eliminating Social Security & Medicare,..”

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CW22 10/17

“…gutting environmental policies to give corporations a free hand in despoiling the environment, anti-union measures, deep budget cuts in social programs, & the showing in this movement of demonstrators hoisting signs…”

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CW22 10/18

“…w racist images & slogans & gleefully applauding the acting out of a slave auction depicting an African-American president, Obama, & his supporters in Congress & his administration as bloodied slaves in chains;”

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CW22 10/19

“...the popularity of a news network promoting, in blatant & mostly dishonest form, reactionary issues & figures; the resurgence in the careers of Pat Buchanan, rightwing propagandist out of the Nixon administration turned talk show pundit,..”

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CW22 10/20

“…& Newt Gingrich, reactionary culture warrior during the early Nineties; extreme pro-gun positions & actions, including openly carrying weapons to political rallies & events…”

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CW22 10/21

“…& proposing the allowance of children to bring guns to schools; thuggish attacks on left-leaning activists & demonstrators; the murder of physicians on the pro-choice side of the abortion/women’s rights issue;”

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CW22 10/22

including the nearly successful assassination attempt on Democratic Congresswoman, Gabriel Giffords…. I could go on.”

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CW22 10/23

“Most folks would see nothing connecting these issues on either side. What I believe we are seeing is a resurgence of the underground “culture war” that has been going on in the US since the 1960s between the Sixties Generation—”

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CW22 10/24

“[the Sixties Generation ]—those whose adolescent & young adulthood, formative years were influenced by the events of the 60s—and the World War Two Generation—”

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CW22 10/25

“[the WWII Generation]—those whose equivalent times of life were forged in the Forties, during & around the time of World War Two.”

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CW22 10/26

“*Generation Gap & Counterculture*

“The huge ravine separating the views of these two generations was most apparent when those of the Sixties Generation were in their youth,..”

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CW22 10/27

“…engaged in the process of discovering & exploring their values & therefore expressing them blatantly & with all the indiscretion, lack of subtlety, confrontation, & rebelliousness that characterizes the inexperienced.”

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CW22 10/28

“Thus, terms like *generation gap* & *counterculture* were bandied about, analyzed, & fervently discussed. The differences were “on the table,” in full view;”

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CW22 10/29

“& because the views & values of the youth were so “counter” or opposite to those of the WWII Generation, much debate & analysis was spawned in the media to try to explain—for the most part to the WWII Generation—how this could be so.”

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CW22 10/30

“Nevertheless, these terms of *generation gap* & *counterculture*, which highlighted the great disparity of views, would fade mostly into disuse.”

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CW22 10/31

“This was because, later, the 60s Generation would learn to keep their private views & values more hidden, for practical reasons having to do with making a living, advancing in their careers, being able to raise their children, etc.;

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CW22 10/32

“Yet this did not mean the values [of the Sixties Generation] had changed, regardless the propaganda being infused into the public mind so as to scapegoat this generation.”

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CW22 10/33

“[60s Gen members] were biding their time, waiting—sometimes hopeless that it would ever arrive—for a reversing of the pendulum & a return in society to the ideals & visions of a better world that had so inspired them in their earlier years.”

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CW22 10/34

“For the most part, these Sixties adherents did not know about the psychohistorical tendencies I will be describing here—as for example in the evolution of child-caring & the triumphant phase of generations.”

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CW22 10/35

“For most [60s Generation members] it was just an awareness that something so strong & so right could not simply have completely vanished from the Earth,..”

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CW22 10/36

“…that with time comes change, & therefore there had to be a time, again, when the mood of the country would swing in the direction they felt to be healthiest & more ideal.”

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CW22 10/37

“For some of these [60s Gen members] their hopes were based on the simple rules of gambling: Eventually, at some time or other, with the passage of time, the dice just had to roll their number, if just out of pure chance or randomness.”

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CW22 10/38

“Others had a slightly more reasoned view buttressing their hope for a return to idealism. These folks were those of the Sixties Generation who had applied themselves to implementing the values they learned in the Sixties…”

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CW22 10/39

“…[60s Gen members who had tried implementing the values they learned in the 60s] in the jobs & careers they held, in whatever small or not-so-small way they were allowed by their older generation superiors, bosses, managers, or supervisors.”

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CW22 10/40

“Never knowing they had allies among thr generation who were doing the same kind of thing in thr separate fields, they followed thru, the best they could, on simple conviction, born of experience, of the rightness of the more idealistic ways.”

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CW22 10/41

“Lastly, there were those of the Sixties Generation who identified themselves completely with their youthful idealism. In putting themselves “out front” this way in their values & beliefs they found others who were doing the same.”

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CW22 10/42

“[These 60s Gen members] would together become the “New Age” movement, actively engaged in bringing about the better world their generation had envisioned in the Sixties & early Seventies.”

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CW22 10/43

“[These 60s Gen members] would wonder, as decades passed, why it took so long for the rest of society to catch on to what they felt was an inviting & appealing evolution—one both necessary & thr4 inevitable as well.”

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CW22 10/44

“But these last, the New Agers, would be marginalized & scapegoated by the mainstream of society—a mainstream whose outlines, of course, were determined & inscribed by the mainstream media,..”

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CW22 10/45

“…which [mainstream media] was, in turn, controlled by the wealthy elite of the World War Two Generation (more about this to come). Examples [of this ridicule of the 60s Gen values] included Jerry Brown labeled “Captain Moonbeam,..”

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CW22 10/46

“…the family dynamics in the TV show *Family Ties*, the burnt-out hippie depiction of cabdriver, Jim, in the *Taxi* television series, & 1000s of other instances where those holding New Age views were labeled “flakes.””

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CW22 10/47

“*An Aborted Changing of the Guard—Attack of the Body-Snatchers*

"Another reason these terms depicting cultural division, specifically, *generation gap* & *counterculture*, went into disuse was due to the mobilization of the WWII Gen—”

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CW22 10/48

“—after [the WWII Gen’s] initial phase of somnolent confusion over the events that were emerging in the 60s which left them paralyzed & watching, growing in irritation & anger—into a comprehensive counterattack against the 60s Generation,..”

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CW22 10/49

"…using all the Nixonian-like tactics in their arsenal...understandably, since Nixon was of that [WWII] generation & his tactics were typical of the defensive style of his contemporaries.”

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CW22 10/50

“*Lassoing the Universities*

“In the early Seventies, the WWII Generation used their power & wealth, being themselves in the triumphant phase of thr lives, to put pressure on colleges & universities, nationwide,..”

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CW22 10/51

“…to discontinue the programs, courses, & the professors that they felt were responsible for the youth’s rebellion.”

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CW22 10/52

“Their targets for destruction included such noteworthy “dangers” as liberal arts programs in general, & esp “highly revolutionary” philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, & humanistic psychology courses.”

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CW22 10/53

“A transformation of colleges & universities into “career mills”—whose primary function was to prepare the young for practical & skill-oriented jobs & professions—was called for...or else!”

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CW22 10/54

“Or else these World War Two alumni would discontinue their contributions to these educational institutions.”

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CW22 10/55

“The “bottom line” being threatened in this way, no university administration, to my knowledge, withstood their demands for very long, if at all.”

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CW22 10/56

“*Cloning Themselves...WWII Generation Creating an 80s Generation of “Mini-me’s”

“The youth produced by these institutions would hereafter be dissuaded from thinking for themselves…”

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CW22 10/57

“…& from “questioning authority”—as the previous generation had been encouraged to do—so part of the lapse in the terms of division between the generations—*counterculture* & *generation gap*—had to do with the fact that…”

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CW22 10/58

“…the wave of youth that followed the Sixties Generation would be molded, in their college years, into distant replicas of World War Two Generation members.”

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CW22 10/59

“They [80s Gen/Gen X Yuppies] would be termed the “Me Generation,” since selfishness, greed, money-as-god, & upward mobility were characteristics of the WWII Gen they were able to instill in their youthful clones.”

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CW22 10/60

“Thus, we saw the rise of Young Republicans on campus in the late 70s, the return of ROTC to campuses, & the seeding of fertile young minds w the values that would later be verbalized—in the movie *Wall Street*—in the mantram “Greed is good!””

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CW22 10/61

“At the height of this phase, periodicals were declaring how similar the “youth of today”—meaning those of the late 70s & 80s—were to their parents, how close they were to thr parents in the beliefs & values they held,..”

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CW22 10/62

“…& how the generation gap had inexplicably closed. Such was the success of the WWII Generation in cloning themselves in producing Eighties youth.”

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CW22 10/63

“In sum, beginning in the early 70s, institutions of higher learning turned away from their idealistic goals of “bringing out” from the students their inner truths & wisdom (which is the original meaning of the term *educate*),..”

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CW22 10/64

“…[*educate*,] which is the avowed role of liberal arts programs, & instead turned hard, to the right, onto a path of churning out engineers, MBAs, hard scientists (even in the field of psychology,where humanistic psychology was shunned),..”

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CW22 10/65

“…medical professionals, lawyers, & the like. My liberal arts, semi–ivy-league college—founded, by half, by Benjamin Franklin—turned from the idealistic studies that typified Franklin & those of his time…”

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CW22 10/66

“…& swung from being a bastion of energetic inquiry into all controversial realms—political & spiritual & societal—a virtual “Plato’s Academy” of inquiry, into being a career mill centered around a “pre-med” program.”

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CW22 10/67

“*Harnessing the Media*

“Similarly, these frightened & wealthy WWII “conspirators” (however unconscious their alliance) would use their leverage to ensure that books & the media—TV, radio, magazines, & newspapers—”

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CW22 10/68

“—[these wealthy WWII “conspirators” would use thr leverage to ensure books & the media] would expound their views predominantly, would present events thru the particular psychological lenses & filters with which they were familiar,..”

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CW22 10/69

“…& [these frightened WWII “conspirators” would use their leverage to ensure books & the media] would eschew viewpoints, & even coverage of events, that would in any way strengthen the stance of the, by this time, scapegoated 60s Gen.”

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CW22 10/70

“The [WWII-Gen-controlled] media declared, with much fanfare, in the early Seventies that a “conservative backlash” was occurring; & they published books documenting this event.”

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CW22 10/71

“Meanwhile [the WWII-Gen-controlled media] ignored the polls & the events—specifically the ongoing & growing antiwar & other counterculture “demonstrations”—that would show the lie to this idea,..”

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CW22 10/72

“…& [the WWII-Gen-controlled media] rejected & refused publication of the kind of books & articles, still being effusively churned out—that would support the counterculture movement.”

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CW22 10/73

“Controlling the media in this way & saying it long & loud enough, the “big lie” of the “conservative backlash” began to be accepted as truth. & even many in the counterculture & among the youth began to believe it.”

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CW22 10/74

“Interestingly, those on the extreme right did not forget that the great divide in views was still with us. In the Nineties, Pat Buchanan & Newt Gingrich said a “culture war” was going on.”

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CW22 10/75

“More recently we see WWII- & Fifties-style Tea Partiers going up against huge rallies of Sixties style pro-union demonstrators & massive recall efforts.”

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CW22 10/76

“And, of course, with Trump we see a division in the country corresponding roughly with generational lines, with both sides actively & passionately fighting back the gains of the other side.”

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CW22 10/77

“So those on the right decry such massive outpourings against them, but they are correct that it is a “culture war.” Obviously they can see the world has changed from the 50s-style “Pleasantville” they had imagined & wanted it to be.”

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CW22 10/78

“*Culture War—The King Must Die*

“Still, the WWII Generation could not maintain control forever. For one thing, people die. & being older than the 60s Gen, eventually their numbers had to dwindle.”

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CW22 10/79

“[WWII Gen] numbers dwindling, they had to be replaced by those younger—some of whom were of the Sixties Generation & were now in what psychohistorians call the triumphant phase of life—”

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CW22 10/80

“[the *triumphant phase* of life—] that is, the time of life when a generation is in its “prime,” when it is most influential, when it takes over the reins of society, when it gets behind the wheel of the cultural bus.”

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CW22 10/81

“From this perspective, we can view a remarkable film,*Pleasantville*, released in the late 90s at the peak of the 60s Generation’s triumphant phase, & see that it is a metaphorical review of history from the early 50s up to that time—"

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CW22 10/82

“—[a history] which shows the 60s Gen, in the end, finally realizing thr vision of a more colorful, alive, open-to-new-experience & to change, growthful, changeful, passionate, unregimented, truthful, sensual, feeling & emotionful,..”

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CW22 10/83

“…& less determined, ritualized, & preordained existence. More about this later.”

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CW22 10/84

“*The Generational Changing of the Guard*

“First let me point out that this change in power, evident by this movie & the other recent cultural items I’ve mentioned, is a change as old as our species.”

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CW22 10/85

“Every generation, at some point, leaves or is removed from their seats of power when they are at or near the end of their arc of effectiveness & prowess by a younger generation that is coming into or—”

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CW22 10/86

“—as in the unusual case of the Sixties Generation for the reasons unique to this time to be mentioned below—is fully in the prime of its life.”

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CW22 10/87

“Myths, fairy tales, stories, historical tales, & legends the world over depict this [generational] change of power.”

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CW22 10/88

“The myth that is most transparent in its depiction of this change is the one in which a monarch, despot, or ogre controls & rules the land, keeping the people miserable with oppressive & selfish decrees & policies.”

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CW22 10/89

“A young prince emerges &, after a period of trial...in the case of the 60s Gen, an unusually long period of trial...in which the prince proves himself worthy, he takes up the cause of the people & overthrows the old king & takes his place.”

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CW22 10/90

“Thus the saying “The king is dead. Long live the (new) king.”

“The triumphant phase of the Sixties Generation had been delayed, however, longer than any other generation in history…”

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CW22 10/91

“…because of the advances in modern medical science, which served to keep the World War Two Generation alive & kicking longer than any previous generation.”

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CW22 10/92

“The average life expectancy in the last ninety years (since the time when the WWII Generation were in their youth or young adulthood) has increased remarkably.”

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CW22 10/93

“Hence the Sixties Generation had to wait longer than the World War Two Generation to get a chance behind the wheel of society.”

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CW22 10/94

“It is strange & ironic that at a time when the speed of cultural change is greatest because of an ever increasing speed of technological change,..”

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CW22 10/95

“…at a time when the elder generation’s worldview becomes obsolete sooner & faster than ever before,..”

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CW22 10/96

“…at such a time when it would seem the younger generation’s view would attain relevancy & effectiveness faster & sooner than at any previous time,..”

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CW22 10/97

“..at such a time we had the reverse occurring, that is, the younger generation’s ascendancy was delayed & the older one’s stranglehold on power was extended.”

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CW22 10/98

“However, this rapid change & increasing rate of obsolescence may just have had something to do with the WWII Generation’s desire to hang on & their vehement struggle against change.”

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CW22 10/99

“For, as mentioned before, there is a gap—greater than ever before—between the views of the younger & those of the older.”

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CW22 10/100

“This gap is wrought of the different technological worlds & the corresponding sociocultural worlds that each experienced.”

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CW22 10/101

“It is widened by different, more advanced on the one side, child-caring of children as well as by different drugs used & the contrasting world views they would elicit—as explained in Chapter 5 & those following.”

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CW22 10/102

“So the WWII Generation might be said to have been more threatened than any previous one by the generation to succeed them, because the ascendancy of the next generation appeared to overturn…”

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CW22 10/103

“…& oftentimes reverse so much of what they believed, valued, worked & sacrificed for.”

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CW22 10/104

“Because of the unprecedented technological change & corresponding change in material culture, catalyzing in ways too numerous to mention a myriad of sociocultural & psychological changes in their successors,...”

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CW22 10/105

“…there is less overlap than ever before between the worldviews of the generation handing over power & the generation coming into power.”

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CW22 10/106

“It follows that it would seem to the generation in power, even as they approach the end of their mortality, that less of what they are & were will live on after them than has ever been the case in the history of generational succession.”

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CW22 10/107

“This being so, such a generational succession represented a previously unheard of personal invalidation & undermining of the self-esteem of those of the World War Two Generation…”

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CW22 10/108

“…& a corresponding unprecedented attack on the usual delusions of immortality (themselves living on in some fashion in their successors) that older generations are allowed in exchange for their relinquishing power.”

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CW22 10/109

“*Culture War—The King Won’t Die*

“At any rate & whatever may be the reason, the fact remains that the World War Two Generation used their longevity for all their worth to block the ascendancy of their successors.”

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CW22 10/110

“[The World War Two Generation] used their longevity to amass wealth & power—wealth greater than any previous generation before and, because of their actions, likely to come.”

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CW22 10/111

“For example, their actions led to a situation, currently, wherein they were taken care of in their old age by a Social Security & Medicare system funded by the work of the Baby-Boomers, aka Sixties Generation,.”

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CW22 10/112

“…at the same time that predictions abound that that same Social Security & Medicare system will be depleted just as it is the Baby-Boomers’ time to belly-up to the bar.”

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CW22 10/113

“One might also note the WWII Generation’s environmental & ecological decisions making it that no generation after them will enjoy anywhere near the benefits—health & quality of life among them—of clean environment,.”

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CW22 10/114

“…abundance of natural resources, & ecological balance that they enjoyed. Finally, their decisions regarding arms buildup & proliferation may deny life itself to the generations following them.”

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CW22 10/115

“Other unprecedented ogre-like—greedy, selfish, & uncaring-of-succeeding-generations—actions can be numbered against this [WWII] generation.”

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CW22 10/116

“*Generational Changing of the Guard, Aborted*
“So the World War Two Generation used their unprecedented wealth & power to wage a war against the generation [the 60s Gen] who would be taking over from them,..”

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CW22 10/117

“…keeping [the Sixties/Vietnam/Boomers Gen] & their values under attack & away from the centers of power & influence in society as long as they possibly could.”

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CW22 10/118

“*Desperate Stand: The Battle of the Bill (Clinton)*

“It is enlightening to consider in the 90s the persistent attacks on Bill Clinton (similarly, on Al Gore & Hillary Clinton, continuing)—the first 60s Gen POTUS—ever since he took office.”

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CW22 10/119

“The Monica Lewinsky scandal is a typical example of the extent to which the World War Two Generation so effectively controlled the views & values expressed…”

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CW22 10/120

“…& subtly expounded in the media ever since [the WWII Generation] took conscious control of the society’s “collective consciousness” in this way in the early Seventies.”

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CW22 10/121

“By this I mean that in the entire time of the scandal, it was assumed that sex is bad, or at least sex outside of marriage is bad. It was assumed Hillary must be horribly pained & angered by the revelation of her husband’s affair(s).”

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CW22 10/122

“*Make Love, Not War*

“It is as if the slogan “Make Love, Not War” was never a generational outcry.”

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CW22 10/123

“I don’t believe you will ever find in the history books paid for/published by World War Two Generation owned publishing houses mention of the fact that slogan was ever used.”

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CW22 10/124

“Indeed, with all the talk by pundits, analysts, & commentators on literally hundreds of TV shows during the entire time of the Lewinsky scandal & impeachment drama, that slogan, “Make Love, Not War,” was practically never mentioned.”

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CW22 10/125

“I am aware of only one time—when I heard it slipped in unnoticed by a participant in the middle of a talkin’-all-at-once brouhaha on the TV show *Politically Incorrect*, whereupon it was totally ignored.”

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CW22 10/126

“Even more astonishing, those same pundits discussed, *ad nauseum*, this scandal & all the myriad ramifications of it yet never, to my knowledge, made note of Clinton’s generational status & the views, exemplified by “Make Love, Not War,”…”

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CW22 10/127

“…[“Make Love, Not War,”] which my generation espoused. It has simply been assumed that all of the 60s Gen “grew out” of that kind of “nonsense” & had adopted the views of the WWII Generation...again, polls on values & viewpoints be damned.”

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CW22 10/128

“*Rewriting History*

“Most telling of all in the attacks on Clinton’s behavior is the assumption that such a stance on open marriage & uninhibited sexuality is a product of uncontrolled lewdness…”

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CW22 10/129

“…& the sexual license exhibited primarily by the young, which naturally everyone grows out of in order to adopt the constrained & secretive sexual views of the old.” *sarcasm*

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CW22 10/130

“The sexual revolution’s parallel growth in the 60s w expanding civil rights, women’s rights,& indiv liberty is completely ignored. Its roots in an idealism about final & complete gender equality is totally vanquished as if it were never so.”

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CW22 10/131

“In fact, I doubt you, the reader, know of this. Yet hordes of Sixties youth shared with each other, conspiratorial-like, the Sixties novel, *The Harrad Experiment* by Robert H. Rimmer, which portrayed—in poetic & highly intelligent fashion—”

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CW22 10/132

“—an evolution to a radical equality between the genders, to an elimination of neurotic suffering around sexuality as, for example, in painful jealousy, to an ending of sexual violence as in spouse abuse,..”

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CW22 10/133

“…& a final & complete solution to a gender war existing for all time with incalculable casualties & near infinity of suffering on both sides. It was a story about non-monogamy & open relationships...“free love.””

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CW22 10/134

“Neither did the pundits point out that Bill Clinton is of a generation who made a book on “open marriage” a bestseller.”

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CW22 10/135

“The clinch on the media by that older [WWII] generation has been so complete as to have, apparently, completely dismissed or erased from the minds of the pundits the facts that those ideas & books ever existed.”

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CW22 10/136

“Another thing erased from history since the 70s: the “sexual revolution.” Remember that? When was the last time you heard that talked about? All the energy that had surrounded these controversial ideas has, because of media manipulation…”

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CW22 10/137

“…& repression of these views, been channeled into & reduced to a fight over a woman’s right to choose, that is to say, the abortion issue, & more recently to fights over union rights & budget issues.”

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CW22 10/138

“*Abortion Wars*

“Incidentally, it is no coincidence that the issue of abortion has taken on such importance for so many in the electorate, for it is the last remaining battle of the “culture war” directly continuing from the Sixties.”

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CW22 10/139

“Prior to the Sixties, women’s bodies could not be considered their own, in many ways; a prominent way was the illegality of abortion, which made outcasts & corpses out of untold numbers of women.”

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CW22 10/140

“It was reversed by Roe v. Wade in the Sixties. But the battle never went away & is the major front in a Gender War that has been going on for millennia.”

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CW22 10/141

“And your position on the abortion issue is the closest thing to a military uniform indicating on which side of the culture war you have enlisted.”

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CW22 10/142

“Specifically, I am saying that there are few of the Sixties Generation who would not classify themselves as “pro-choice.””

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CW22 10/143

“Meanwhile, the anti-abortionists are found to primarily comprise those of the WWII Generation, their Eighties Generation clones, & the Eisenhower-Presley-McCarthy—”

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CW22 10/144

“—and now we might add “Pleasantville”—Fifties Generation. (For a definition & explanation of Fifties Generation see Chapter Five, “Drugs & Generations—Concocted Worlds”)”

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CW22 10/145

“*World War Two & Fifties Generations Just Don’t Get It...Never Have, & Never Will*

“Of course, I am saying that…”

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CW22 10/146

“…the War on Clinton was, in its essence, an unacknowledged but desperate battle in the Culture War that has been going on since the 60s—despite these attacks not being framed or talked about this way—between the WWII & the 60s Generations.”

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CW22 10/147

“The World War Two Generation, especially after the elections of November 1998, learned that it was way off in some of its assumptions, that their analysis of what had been happening in this country was woefully miscalculated.”

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CW22 10/148

“[The WWII Generation] were like the deluded schizophrenic who believed passionately in the world he himself created coming up against some of the hard, harsh, & indisputable facts of existence which undermine his world.”

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CW22 10/149

“The WWII-Generation–minded—whatever the individual’s age, & especially now, their underlings of the 50s Generation—have been fighting back, since the Nineties, with all the firepower they can muster against realizing the harsh realities…”

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CW22 10/150

“…around them of their waning ideals. They have been in total & absolute denial of the direction of the American, indeed the world, consciousness; & they have been flinging all thr wealth into the mix to try to repress the emerging truths.”

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CW22 10/151

“When I first published on this topic in 1998 I wrote, “But we shouldn’t be surprised if we see some of those in their ranks—wealthy & facing their inevitable demise—merely increasing the ferocity of their war waging...”

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CW22 10/152

“…humiliating themselves & seeming ever more pitiful in the minds of the majority of observers, who increasingly, as time continues to decimate their WWII ranks, are younger than they & thus do not share their delusions.”

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CW22 10/153

“I am sorry to say I was more correct than I could ever have dreamed as we have faced, since the change of the millennium, neo-con wars built on lies & confused tea-baggers railing against their own interests.”

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CW22 10/154

This has been the entire Chapter 19 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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CW22 10/155

The complete 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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CW22 10/156

This is the completed, fully illustrated, document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*

To get a copy, click link:

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CW22 10/157

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks, complete with the extensive pics & graphics.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic Blue Wave in Nov.

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CW22 10/158

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

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CW22 10/159

& 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 it in my own sharing on social media.

And, above all, VOTE DEMOCRATIC

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CW22 10/160

Finally, if what you prefer are the paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below. All my books are priced at cost or the minimum allowable by Amazon.

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CW22 10/161

Up next,

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

Chapter 11, titled,

“Culture War Allegory:

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

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CW22 10/162

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