No lefty will make the connection
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T. A. Gardner
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T. A. Gardner
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You've never heard of the Frankfurt School.
You should know what it was, and how its poison is still running through the veins of every leftist on JPP (and beyond).
1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power.
2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program.
3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon.
4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon.
5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, "content moderation" departments, and the UN and the European Unions regulatory apparatus.
6. "French Theory" picked up the tools of insanity and made them aesthetic.
7. A civilization stands on three pillars of thought: truth exists and is susceptible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting to future generations.
You should know what it was, and how its poison is still running through the veins of every leftist on JPP (and beyond).
1. The Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt in 1923 and relocated to Columbia University in 1934 when Hitler came to power.
The civilization they had decided to dismantle gave them refuge when another tried to kill them. They spent the next five decades producing the theoretical infrastructure for that dismantling.
Western civilization itself was the problem: reason, the Enlightenment, the family, tradition, authority.
Not reformed. Dismantled.
2. They called it Critical Theory – and the name is the program.
Everything is to be criticized; nothing is to be built.
In The Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), Adorno and Horkheimer argued that Western reason — the reason that produced Newton and the rule of law — contained the seeds of Auschwitz.
Not that reason had been misused, but that reason itself, taken to its conclusion, produces the death camp.
This was not a critique of institutions. It was an indictment of Western civilization itself.
3. Adorno gave them the psychological weapon.
The Authoritarian Personality (1950) classified conservatism, religious faith, patriotism, and the traditional family not as political positions but as symptoms of a proto-fascist personality.
If you love the nation you inhabit or respected your father’s authority, you are pre-fascist.
The opponent was no longer wrong – he was "sick". You don’t argue with a pathology. You treat it.
This made dialogue impossible. You don’t persuade someone who is wrong; you diagnose someone who is sick. Politics becomes therapy, and disagreement becomes pathology.
4. Marcuse gave them the political weapon.
Repressive Tolerance (1965) argued that tolerating "wrong ideas" is "oppression".
"True" tolerance therefore requires suppressing intolerant ideas.
The left decides which ideas are intolerant.
Everyone else is silenced – not despite tolerance, but "in its name." Censorship is disguisedin the vocabulary of "liberation".
5. The generation that read Marcuse at Columbia, Berkeley, and Yale went on to run universities, media, foundations, NGOs, "content moderation" departments, and the UN and the European Unions regulatory apparatus.
They implemented the argument sincerely because they had been taught it as philosophy.
This was the Frankfurt School’s greatest victory: it produced true believers; "experts" that midwits slavishly follow without question, no matter how absurd the pronouncement (e.g. "men can menstruate and get pregnant"). JPP lefties believe this.
6. "French Theory" picked up the tools of insanity and made them aesthetic.
Foucault made the critique of power "literary".
Derrida made the critique of meaning "philosophical".
Deleuze made the critique of identity "elegant".
A political program became a cultural sensibility.
You can argue with a program. A sensibility is in the air you breathe.
By the time these ideas reached the American campus through the French conduit, they were no longer ideology. They were the water the young were soaked in. The fish did not even know they were wet.
7. A civilization stands on three pillars of thought: truth exists and is susceptible to reason; good is distinguishable from evil; and there is an inheritance worth transmitting to future generations.
The Frankfurt School attacked all three – systematically and with considerable, albeit unfalsifiable, sophistication.
It produced a generation that knows how to deconstruct everything and does not know how to build anything.
A whole generation of deluded Westerners who see power everywhere and beauty nowhere.
The ultimate scam was to make destruction feel like progress to the incurious and intellectually lazy; hence "progressivism".
Every existing institution became "racist", "sexist", paternalistic".
Constraint and self-restraint became "oppression"; every act of conservation (the root meaning of conservatism) became "reactionary".
Deconstruction became "good". Our civilization became "evil"; something that needs to be destroyed.
The unwitting adherents of the Frankfurt School were taught to detest and hate the builder who simply builds, the scientist who follows the evidence, the father and mother who wants to pass on what they inherited to their children.
The deconstruction machine runs on the assumption that nothing the West has is worth having...
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