“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Not exactly, Thersites. This is what happens when the EDUCATIONAL Establishment, the MEDIA, the ENTERTAINMENT Industry, the LAW and the vast majority of ELECTED OFFICIALS join forces to SEDUCE, then SUBVERT and NEGATE the WlLL of the PEOPLE –– "for their own good."
To all intents and purposes the thinking generated by Karl Marx later refined and made more "palatable" by The Frankfurt School along with those bilious, hyper-cynical essentally nihilistic 20th-century French Philosophers of whom you seem lately to have become so enamored, COMPLETELY TOOK OVER the realm of so-called "Higher Education" way back in the post-World War One Era, and thus poisoned the minds of the lion's share of our "brightest and best" for several generations.
We are reaping the noxious harvest of that not-so-silent "Silent Coup" today.
PS: Though his diction is frankly appalling, and he may be "common" and "uncouth" by the standard with which I was raised, I ADORE Tommy Robinson.
Though quintessential;y British, Tommy Robinson ironically embodies what-WE-used-to-call "The Spirit of '76." I wish him –– and all the rest of us –– the best of luck in dealing with the Orwellian Nightmare World into which Mother England has tragically lapsed.
Deep thinking never hurt anybody, FreeThinke, unless the thoughts generated were misinterpreted. There's nothing wrong with the scholarship of the Frankfurt School but for the misapplication of some conclusions. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The "cure" is "more".
"Critical Theory" was born from the rise of the NAZI's, so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that some German Jews would develop theories to criticize the NAZI's with. What's a mistake is to apply "critical theory" and "critical theory only" to EVERY Government.
I believe you have it backwards, FJ. The Frankfut School pre-dated the rise of Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Second World War by a good many years.
You might better say that Naziism arose –– at least partly –– as a REACTION to the perverse, demented, subversive, obscene patently EVIL brand of thinking generated by Karl Marx and the Frankfurt School.
Simplistic, I admit, but there's a large grain of truth in what I just said all the same.
Hitler was CORRECT in seeing the THREAT of Marxism, its variants, and its supporters, and he was CORRECT in his understanding of who AUTHORED this Threat and WHY. Unfortunately, Hutler's proposed "solution" was as bad or worse than the poisonous ideology he felt compelled to fight.
But in any case The Frankfurt School did NOT arise as an attempt to combat Naziism. It was exacty the other way 'round.
As for your pronouncement of the truism that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." All i can say is that digesting infinite amounts of vicious anti-Christian, anti-Capitalist, anti-American, anti WESTERN propaganda, disinformation and twisted, poisonous ideologies, and the open advocacy of gross indecency does NOT expand our body of KNOWLEDGE, it only seves to expand and compound our IGNORANCE.
Marxism pre-dated the Nazi's and the Nazi's rose in opposition to it. Critical Theory and the Frankfort School originated in the 30's, congruent to the rise of National Socialism and the Weimar regime. National Socialism or the NAZI's constituted a "criticism" of the bourgeois Weimar Jewish-friendly regime as well, and once it gained dominance in Germany, the Frankfort School concentrated on the combination of anti-facsism and anti-capitalism.
from Wiki: The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of neo-Marxist[citation needed] dissidents uncomfortable with existing capitalist, fascist or communist systems. Many of these theorists believed that traditional theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the 20th century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.
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TYRANNY is the ultimate consequence of MARXIAN COLLECTIVIST Thinking and perversion of the meaning of FAIRNESS..
Egalitarianism run amok has already brought about the utter RUIN of Western Civilization.
Emgland is not ENGLAND anymore. It is rapidly becoming a NIGGEROCRACY.
I CAN happen h.ere. It WILL happened here.
Aw SHIT It already HAS happened here.
FUCK French Thought!
FUCK militant secularism!
FUCK "intellectuals."
This is what happens when Government regulates the press.
Not exactly, Thersites. This is what happens when the EDUCATIONAL Establishment, the MEDIA, the ENTERTAINMENT Industry, the LAW and the vast majority of ELECTED OFFICIALS join forces to SEDUCE, then SUBVERT and NEGATE the WlLL of the PEOPLE –– "for their own good."
To all intents and purposes the thinking generated by Karl Marx later refined and made more "palatable" by The Frankfurt School along with those bilious, hyper-cynical essentally nihilistic 20th-century French Philosophers of whom you seem lately to have become so enamored, COMPLETELY TOOK OVER the realm of so-called "Higher Education" way back in the post-World War One Era, and thus poisoned the minds of the lion's share of our "brightest and best" for several generations.
We are reaping the noxious harvest of that not-so-silent "Silent Coup" today.
Disbelieve that at your peril.
PS: Though his diction is frankly appalling, and he may be "common" and "uncouth" by the standard with which I was raised, I ADORE Tommy Robinson.
Though quintessential;y British, Tommy Robinson ironically embodies what-WE-used-to-call "The Spirit of '76." I wish him –– and all the rest of us –– the best of luck in dealing with the Orwellian Nightmare World into which Mother England has tragically lapsed.
Deep thinking never hurt anybody, FreeThinke, unless the thoughts generated were misinterpreted. There's nothing wrong with the scholarship of the Frankfurt School but for the misapplication of some conclusions. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The "cure" is "more".
The Frankfurt School would "justify" Tommy Robinson.
"Critical Theory" was born from the rise of the NAZI's, so it shouldn't be surprising to anyone that some German Jews would develop theories to criticize the NAZI's with. What's a mistake is to apply "critical theory" and "critical theory only" to EVERY Government.
I believe you have it backwards, FJ. The Frankfut School pre-dated the rise of Hitler, The Third Reich, and the Second World War by a good many years.
You might better say that Naziism arose –– at least partly –– as a REACTION to the perverse, demented, subversive, obscene patently EVIL brand of thinking generated by Karl Marx and the Frankfurt School.
Simplistic, I admit, but there's a large grain of truth in what I just said all the same.
Hitler was CORRECT in seeing the THREAT of Marxism, its variants, and its supporters, and he was CORRECT in his understanding of who AUTHORED this Threat and WHY. Unfortunately, Hutler's proposed "solution" was as bad or worse than the poisonous ideology he felt compelled to fight.
But in any case The Frankfurt School did NOT arise as an attempt to combat Naziism. It was exacty the other way 'round.
As for your pronouncement of the truism that "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." All i can say is that digesting infinite amounts of vicious anti-Christian, anti-Capitalist, anti-American, anti WESTERN propaganda, disinformation and twisted, poisonous ideologies, and the open advocacy of gross indecency does NOT expand our body of KNOWLEDGE, it only seves to expand and compound our IGNORANCE.
Marxism pre-dated the Nazi's and the Nazi's rose in opposition to it. Critical Theory and the Frankfort School originated in the 30's, congruent to the rise of National Socialism and the Weimar regime. National Socialism or the NAZI's constituted a "criticism" of the bourgeois Weimar Jewish-friendly regime as well, and once it gained dominance in Germany, the Frankfort School concentrated on the combination of anti-facsism and anti-capitalism.
from Wiki:
The Frankfurt School (German: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and philosophy associated in part with the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded during the interwar period, the School consisted of neo-Marxist[citation needed] dissidents uncomfortable with existing capitalist, fascist or communist systems. Many of these theorists believed that traditional theory could not adequately explain the turbulent and unexpected development of capitalist societies in the 20th century. Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, their writings pointed to the possibility of an alternative path to social development.
Thaj you for corroborating my understandung that Marxism begat the Frankfurt School and boith had a LOT to do wth begetting Naziism.
PS: I used the same WIKI quote to back up my assertion concerning the historical succession of these conflicting ideologies,
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