Thread by @sillymickel

Chapter 12

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

by Michael Adzema, is titled,

“Cultural Rebirth, Aborted:

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

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CW22 12/1

“The paramount theme in *Pleasantville*—which is that thinking for oneself & following one’s own unique path & being open to the change that comes with that brings “color,” truth,& aliveness to one’s life—is truly a 60s Generation idea.”

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CW22 12/2

“Again, it is not that it has never been thought before. All great ideas have been thought before, but that does not mean they have been implemented on a sociocultural, macrocosmic level.”

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CW22 12/3

“Many ideas have remained in the realm of the solitary pursuits of philosophers & mystics & been exemplified only in individual lives.”

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CW22 12/4

“Yet, the 60s was such a time of turmoil bc the values of indiv freedom, personal passion, feeling & experience, questioning authority, & thinking for oneself were shared by so many Boomers & were so contrary to the values of the gen in power.”

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CW22 12/5

“*It’s a (Not So) Wonderful Life—WWII Generation*

“An excellent example of how opposed the 60s values are to those of the WWII Gen is found in that beloved movie of all time, *It’s a Wonderful Life*, starring Jimmy Stewart.”

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CW22 12/6

“In* It’s a Wonderful Life*, the main character is prevented by circumstances from following his dreams. One event after another keeps him from leaving his hometown.”

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CW22 12/7

“His story might be called *The Truman Show* in reverse for he comes to accept the loss of his dreams. He is rewarded for giving up his yearning for adventure with the warmth of a loving family & friends.”

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CW22 12/8

“Nonetheless, he has been reduced to someone who simply follows a script or role & when it appears that he might fail in that role he considers killing himself.”

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CW22 12/9

“*Reassures a Generation*

“*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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CW22 12/10

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

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“*Will never know what might have been*

“It provides a rationalization against the painful feelings of knowing that one will never know “what might have been”…”

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CW22 12/11

“…by pointing out the truth that one’s life affects others & has meaning regardless of whether or not one has been fortunate enough to actualize one’s deepest desires, talents, aspirations, & dreams.”

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CW22 12/12

“*War Compels Dashing of Dreams*

“As mentioned, *It’s a Wonderful Life* calls out to & epitomizes the experiences & attitudes of the World War Two Generation in particular.”

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CW22 12/13

“[The WWII Generation] were called upon to fight a war, after all, which no doubt would derail many a young man’s & woman’s dreams.”

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CW22 12/14

“As in *It’s a Wonderful Life*, the circumstances that arise to prevent their following thru on their dreams are imposed from the outside—the state of being at war & being called upon by a draft to enlist or else be enlisted.”

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CW22 12/15

“For the women, as well as the men who stayed behind, the war’s influence on their lives & the carrying out of idealistic schemes & dreams are only a little less pronounced.”

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CW22 12/16

“For, as in *It’s a Wonderful Life*, the war created a society heaving with needs & pain, which only the truly heartless...who would not have any dreams anyway...could not help but feel compelled to respond to.”

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CW22 12/17

“*Growing up too fast*

“In one way or another, the situation in the 40s, with the war effort & afterwards, created a generation who, except for the rare individual or one of unusual circumstances, was called upon to step up…”

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CW22 12/18

“…[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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CW22 12/19

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

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CW22 12/20

“*Mashing Butterflies & Drowning Kittens*

“This is not to say, however, that the generations before the WWII Generation were allowed their dreams & that the WWII Gen was unique in being crippled in its development.”

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CW22 12/21

“For we know that earlier child-rearing modes required the submission of children & youth to parental wishes.”

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CW22 12/22

“Therefore, dreaming or envisioning an adventurous life was not the norm. For much of the history of the world & in most cultures, indeed,even the selection of one’s spouse was decided by the parents. So much has our history—in both Eastern…”

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CW22 12/23

“…& Western cultures—been marked by the assassination of youthful dreaming, idealism, & choice that Shakespeare’s *Romeo & Juliet* can be said to be a revolutionary work in even depicting this assassination of dreams is a tragedy!”

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CW22 12/24

“*Roaring Into Life*

“Still, the WWII Gen can be said to have been especially affected by this slaying of self, for they did, after all, experience the heady freedom of the“Roaring Twenties” & the dreaming that preceded the Great Depression.”

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CW22 12/25

“In the Twenties, victorious in World War I & with it now put behind, America was coming into its youthfulness & was heady with its achievements.”

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CW22 12/26

“Unbelievable accomplishments & inventions in all areas of life were speeding up sociocultural change causing some to believe a new era was around the corner, just within reach,an era unlike anything the world had ever known.”

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CW22 12/27

“This was the atmosphere in the Twenties when the WWII Generation were in their childhood or adolescence. It could not help making a very strong, because of its being early, imprint on their expectations.”

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CW22 12/28

“*Suddenly Depressed*

“However, these dreams would be dashed in the Great Depression, during which time [the WWII Generation] would be adolescents & young adults,.."

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CW22 12/29

& [the WWII Generation] would be harnessed into struggling like their parents had to earlier & were now again struggling.”

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CW22 12/30

“*Getting a New Deal...Light at the End of a Tunnel*

“Still, as time wore on the dreams of a new world would be reignited with the idealistic union movement & the Franklin Roosevelt changes in the social contract…”

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CW22 12/31

“…[changes in the social contract] that rescripted the relation btwn the society & the individual,creating a symbiotic one which enhanced them both as champions of each other. Folks would magnify the power of the person when united w others.”

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CW22 12/32

“They would dream of a fairer world in which the rich did not dominate w their wealth bc the poor could balance the scales w their strength in numbers, adding to thr individual power by joining in unions & by combining thr votes in elections.”

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CW22 12/33

“[the WWII Generation] could begin to envision the light at the end of the tunnel of the Great Depression in which they might realize the freedom & adventure they’d glimpsed around them as children in the Twenties.”

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CW22 12/34

“*War. Shot Down Again*

“So it is understandable that they would not wish to enter World War II when it began. Pearl Harbor Day, when their fate was inevitably forged,..”

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CW22 12/35

“…[Pearl Harbor Day] when it became clear for the 2nd time the light of individual freedom would be extinguished, would become an important marker in their lifetimes—a day almost as much to be memorialized as thr birthdays.”

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CW22 12/36

“*We Are the Centaurs (My Friends)—Sixties Generation*

“*Sitting on the Shoulders of One’s Ancestors*

“For this we can pity the World War Two Generation.”

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CW22 12/37

“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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CW22 12/38

“[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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CW22 12/39

“& 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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CW22 12/40

“But Updike points out in his novel their 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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CW22 12/41

“*The Sixties Generation Arrived*

“It is significant that the protagonist of change in the movie *Pleasantville* would be a young male, Bud (David). This is in keeping with legends of old where a young prince comes bearing the new knowledge.”

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CW22 12/42

“Yet in postmodern style, wonderfully so, he is drawn only reluctantly into this role, & we see that it is women who are the real instigators, the least threatened by change.”

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CW22 12/43

“At first, David/Bud opposes his sister & argues for the status quo, maintaining that his sister, who is actually the first one to “break the rules” & thereby to bring color to the town, must abide by the script.”

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CW22 12/44

“*The Prince in Exile*

“*The Prince is schooled in tradition*

“The “young prince” knows the rules well.”

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CW22 12/45

“This fits with legend, where the new ways are brought by a prince who is not ignorant of tradition; in fact the prince is the one who has excelled in training in traditional ways.”

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CW22 12/46

“In the movie, David is in fact a *Pleasantville* trivia whiz. He knows exactly the way things are supposed to unravel, the way events are supposed to go.”

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CW22 12/47

“*The Prince is reluctant to break with tradition*

“So when his sister first introduces color by introducing sex, he admonishes her.”

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CW22 12/48

“& when he also is tempted to a change in the “script,” he refuses at first. This is when Bud is offered homemade cookies by the young woman who would be his romantic partner.”

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CW22 12/49

“He refuses because he knows that, according to script, it is another young man who is supposed to get the cookies & end up with that particular girl.”

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CW22 12/50

“Despite his attraction for the young woman, his strong sense of maintaining the status quo, not rocking the boat, causes him to try to refuse the cookies.”

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CW22 12/51

“It takes a great deal of forcefulness on the young woman’s part to get him, reluctantly, to accept the cookies that he actually does want. So, again, it is a young, significantly “colorized,” woman who tempts him into a change in the script.”

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CW22 12/52

“*The Prince brings change, without realizing it, just being himself*

“It is not that the young man does not have the makeup for accepting change.”

“In fact, even before his sister blatantly brings about change, & therefore color,..”

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CW22 12/53

“…by rebelliously introducing sex, he has already sown the seeds of change, although unconsciously, when he suggests to his boss, Mister Johnson, that he think for himself, instead of following a rigid script.”

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CW22 12/54

“This he does unconsciously & out of selfish motives in that he by nature is different from the character he is supposed to portray & so he does not play his role exactly as it is “supposed” to be played.”

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CW22 12/55

“Specifically, because he is not really the robot character he has replaced, he ends up being late for his job—which heretofore was a totally unheard of event.”

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CW22 12/56

“*Cultural Rebirth*

“It is also significant that it is the young that are the 1st ones in the town to become “colored.””

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CW22 12/57

“*The Hundredth Monkey*

“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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CW22 12/58

“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.”

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CW22 12/59

“Adult males are the last to turn to color, but among them it is the sensitive of heart, exemplified by the artist/soda-jerk character, Mister Johnson, who “turn on” initially.”

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CW22 12/60

“*Good Old Boys, the Last to Learn*

“Last to become colorized—that is to say, to be open to change & thinking for oneself—are the “authorities” of the town, in this instance, those on the Chamber of Commerce.”

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CW22 12/61

“& among these the most recalcitrant of all is their leader, Big Bob, played by J. T. Walsh, in his final film role before his passing away. Though Big Bob displays a pleasing & affable persona on the surface—for this read “good old boy”—”

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CW22 12/62

“—there is an insidious Hitleresque quality to him which provides the suspense at the climax of the movie where he presides over the fate of the artist, Mister Johnson, & the “young prince,” David/Bud.”

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CW22 12/63

“*“Conservative Backlash”*

“The events preceding the trial included mob actions, as in a book burning, the attack & destruction of the malt shop, & the cornering, physical intimidation, & physical attack of “coloreds” by gangs”

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CW22 12/64

“ These are images common to modern times which has seen these sorts of events in actuality occurring in the Civil Rights & anti–Vietnam-War movements,..”

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CW22 12/65

“…& in recent decades in democracy & freedom uprisings in the Middle East, America, Turkey, Brazil, & throughout the world in Occupy & BLM movements.”

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CW22 12/66

“With the support of the Chamber of Commerce, we know Big Bob has the power to do whatever he will with the two on trial.”

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CW22 12/67

“Hence, the fate of the prisoners is imagined to include the ultimate penalty of death. Indeed, this ominous possibility is promoted by the actions of the soda-jerk artist who, at the trial, pitifully pleads for a compromise.”

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CW22 12/68

“This is pitiful since we know that his art is his life, that it is the one thing that has truly enriched his life & made it worth living.”

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CW22 12/69

“*Sitting at the Lunch Counter*

“We know of its importance in that, even after the attack on his malt shop, the artist defied the “rules” laid down by the town’s authorities, which outlawed art & color,..”

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CW22 12/70

“…by working with the Prince throughout the night to produce a colorful mural on the outside wall of his shop depicting the current events of the town & the feelings swirling about inside its residents.”

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CW22 12/71

“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 with dogs;”

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CW22 12/72

“of Tiananmen 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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CW22 12/73

“& 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 their bodies in front of, arguably, the most dire, widespread fascism ever to exist.”

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CW22 12/74

“Since this character, recently so courageously defiant, is intimidated into pleading for a compromise in which he would be willing to use only certain colors or where he would submit for approval by the Chamber’s leader his ideas…”

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CW22 12/75

“…[his ideas] for painting beforehand—a compromise which his body language & facial expressions show, wonderfully acted by Jeff Daniels, is one near up against the very death of his soul—we know he fears for the loss of his physical life.”

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CW22 12/76

“*“Just Sign This Confession”*

“The compromise is too much like the compromises we have witnessed being offered & come to expect being offered to some of the Tiananmen Square & other political prisoners of recent times…”

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CW22 12/77

“…wherein they are required to do something along the lines of admitting their guilt, apologizing to the State for the trouble they have caused it, & promising to never again to engage in such activities...”

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CW22 12/78

“…and only in the most benevolent of circumstances being allowed to continue anything like their former activities; yet, if so, only under the supervision & with the approval of authorities with veto power over their proposed actions.”

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CW22 12/79

“*The Religious Wrong*

“So Big Bob & the Chamber of Commerce represent in the current social framework the Religious Right—sometimes referred to as the“religious wrong” & sometimes about which it is noted that the Religious Right is neither.”

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CW22 12/80

“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 WWII Generation, & their Fifties Gen/ Gen X clones.”

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CW22 12/81

“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”; & above all to “behave”…”

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CW22 12/82

“…& 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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CW22 12/83

“*Civil Rights Movement*

“It is highly significant that in the courtroom scene the “colored” townsfolk would be sitting in the balcony, above the black-and-white men.”

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CW22 12/84

“One might say this represents their status as being an elevated state, something to aspire to, & yet not on the level where matters are decided.”

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CW22 12/85

“But even more so, this scene is important in that it is a near exact replication of the courtroom scene in *To Kill a Mockingbird*, wherein the balcony of the courtroom is filled with African Americans—another kind of “colored.””

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CW22 12/86

“This makes it clear that when the movie is dealing with the conflict between the adult males of the town & the “colored” it is referring to the Civil Rights movement.”

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CW22 12/87

“*Cultural Rebirth Aborted*

“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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CW22 12/88

“*The American Tiananmen Square*

“What happened in China three decades ago is so much like what happened in the U.S. five decades ago, somewhat less graphically, around the Vietnam War demonstrations. Let me explain.”

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CW22 12/89

“*Standing before tanks, flowers in barrels*

“For one thing, the images of the demonstrations in China, for example, the lone man standing in front of the tank,..”

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CW22 12/90

“…were so like those of Sixties demonstrations, as in Sixties youth blocking the paths of soldiers & placing flowers in their gun barrels.”

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CW22 12/91

“*Revenge of the octogenarians*

“And the result of both was the same:”

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CW22 12/92

“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, clinging desperately to power as much as to their waning physical frames.”

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CW22 12/93

“*The King Won’t Die*

“*Assassinations—character & otherwise*

“We see the same pattern of violent versus subtle played out in the US as well where we no longer assassinate our president as we did with JFK,..”

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CW22 12/94

“…we character assassinate instead, as we did with Bill Clinton. Which the Tea Party & the wealthy Right tried to manufacture against Obama; he was called rich & elitist.”

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CW22 12/95

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

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CW22 12/96

“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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CW22 12/97

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

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CW22 12/98

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

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CW22 12/99

“One might say that, in America, the WWII generation & its protégés have gotten more finesse, with practice, in its beating back sociocultural change not to their liking using lies & manufactured untruths…”

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CW22 12/100

“…& that the Chinese geriatric set didn’t have as much practice with it.”

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CW22 12/101

“*The King refuses to die*

“Nevertheless, 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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CW22 12/102

“—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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CW22 12/103

“*Time is running out*

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

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CW22 12/104

“The expected, supposedly inevitable defeat of the WWII Generation—their dying off—is portrayed in *Pleasantville* by Big Bob, head of the Chamber of Commerce, ending up fleeing the scene in the courtroom.”

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CW22 12/105

“Strange coincidence, the actor actually died after making this film. There are many ways his defeat could have been played out in the movie. I think it is highly significant that he runs away, never to be seen again,..”

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CW22 12/106

“…just as in the current context the dying off of the WWII & 50s Gens is a literal leaving of the scene, not an outright defeat or some other means of change of power.

“Yet has the WWII Generation actually left the scene?”

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CW22 12/107

“In the next chapter 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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CW22 12/108

“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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CW22 12/109

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

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CW22 12/110

“…as networks continue to broadcast the same naïve & silly sitcoms from the Fifties & early Sixties to new generations.”

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CW22 12/111

“This refusal to “die,” to turn over the reins of society to younger generations, is indeed an abomination.”

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CW22 12/112

“It represents the WWII & Fifties Gens worldviews being propped up mechanically, though the sand beneath their beliefs is continually washed away.”

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CW22 12/113

“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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CW22 12/114

This has been the entire 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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CW22 12/115

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 12/116

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

To get a copy, click link:

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CW22 12/117

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 12/118

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 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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CW22 12/119

& 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 12/120

Finally, if what you prefer are 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 12/121

Up next,

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

Chapter 13, titled,

“A Culture War Rages:

“Monsters Never Really Die in Horror Flicks…

“The King on Life Support & The Consequences of an Abomination”

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CW22 12/122

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