

"When Cornwallis's army marched out of Yorktown, the fife and drums played "The World Turned Upside Down." Now our world has been turned upside down. What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. When was immoral and shameful- promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide- has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues."



"But where Lenin's revolution failed, the one that erupted



"When Cornwallis's army marched out of Yorktown, the fife and drums played "The World Turned Upside Down." Now our world has been turned upside down. What was right and true yesterday is wrong and false today. When was immoral and shameful- promiscuity, abortion, euthanasia, suicide- has become progressive and praiseworthy. Nietzche called it the transvaluation of all values; the old virtues become sins, and the old sins become virtues."



"But where Lenin's revolution failed, the one that erupted on the campuses in the sixties succeeded. It put down roots in society, and it created a new America. By 2000, the adversary culture of the sixties had become our dominant culture, its victory conceded when the political base camp of traditionalism raised a white flag in Philadelphia. On the moral and social issues- the fight for the sanctity of human life and the return of God to the public square of this land we used to call "God's Country"- the Republican party raised its gloves and pleaded, "No Mas".





"Why is this happening? Socialism, the beatific vision of European intellectuals for generations, is one reason. 'If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age, ' argues Dr John Wallace of Bologna's Johns Hopkins University: 'If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. And if you can also have sex and not babies- and this seems to be true now of Catholic Italy as it is of secular Britain- why marry?"



"Comfort is now the only thing anybody believes in.The ethic of sacrifice for a family- one of the basic ideas of human societies- has become a historical notion. It is astonishing."



"Either Europe raises taxes and radically downsizes pensions and health benefits for the elderly, or Europe becomes a Third World continent. There is no third way."



"Friedrich Engels, who wrote in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: The first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex into public industry and...this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society."



"But when the income tax rate for the wealthiest was above 90 percent in the 1950s, America, by every moral and social indicator, was a better country."



"Early feminists had been fiercely antiabortion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized of the first women's rights convention in 1848, called abortion "a disgusting and degrading crime"...And Susan B. Anthony, early crusader for the women's vote, wrote that 'No matter what the motive...the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life; it will burden her soul in death." It was in fact the 19th century feminists who campaigned to pass the laws that criminalized abortion."



"Today, the perception that marriage is human bondage has become a hallmark of movement militants."



"Only a social counterrevolution or a religious awakening can turn the West around before a falling birthrate closes off the last exit ramp and rings down the curtain on Western Man's long-running play. But not a sign of either can be seen on the horizon."



"The equality the revolution preaches is a corruption of Jefferson's idea 'All men are created equal.' Jefferson meant that all were endowed by their Creator with the same right to life, liberty, and property, and all must be equal under the law. He rejected egalitarianism. As he wrote John Adams in 1813: 'I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.'"



"These ideas have been internalized by the Left. As early as the mid 1960s, conservatives and authority figures who denounced or opposed the campus revolution were routinely branded "fascists". Baby boomers were unknowingly following a script that ran parallel to the party line laid down by the Moscow Central Committee in 1943: 'Members and the front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them fascist, or Nazi or anti-Semitic...The association will, after enough repetition, become "fact" in the public mind'"



"In a third of a century, what was denounced as the counterculture has become the dominant culture, and what was the dominant culture has become, in Gertrude Himmelfarb's phrase, a 'dissident culture.' America has become an ideological state, a 'soft tyranny,' where the new orthodoxy is enforced, not by police agents, but by inquisitors of the popular culture. We see it in the mandatory requirement for "sensitivity training' in the military, in business, and in government. Turn on the TV and observe. The values of the revolution dominate the medium. Political correctness rules. Defiance of our new orthodoxy qualifies as "hate speech," disrepsect for its dogmas as a sign of mental sickness. "Get John Rocker to a psychiatrist!" A few years back, a wag described America's universities as "island of totalitarianism in a sea of freedom." Now even the sea has become inhospitable. Emily Dickinson spoke to our time as well as to her own:



Assent- and you are sane-

Demur- you're straightway dangerous

And handled with a Chain".



"As conservative scholar Robert Nisbet reminds us, boredom "is one of the most insistent and universal (of the) forces that have shaped human behavior," and the "range of cures or termination of boredom is a wide one." High among them are sex, narcotics, and revolution. In the 1960s, what Arnold Toynbee called an "internal proletariat" of students, bored with their studies, encountered graduate instructors, bored with their subjects and unexciting lives- a combustible mixture."



"Third, 1960s television could convey the tactics and triumphs of campus radicals and urban revolutionaries instantly to their peers. And the medium, now matured, no longer the fifties fiefdom of Howdy Doody and Matt Dillon, could not only transmit the new ideas, it could reinforce them by creating new visual realities. The fourth indispensable element was Vietnam. If the war meant sacrifice, bloodshed, perhaps death, the Woodstock generation wanted no part of it. What Marcuse offered was intellectual cover for cowardice, a moral argument for malingering, a way to dodge the draft while feeling superior to those who went. The "real heroes" of this war, said Senator Fulbright and New York mayor John Lindsay, are in Canada. The message fell upon receptive ears in the Ivy League and not only there."



James Cooper:

"Seventy years ago, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) wrote the most important mission for Socialism was to "capture the culture". By the end of WW2, the liberal Left had managed to capture not only the arts, theater, literature, music, and ballet, but also motion pictures, photography, education and the media. Through its control of the culture, the Left dictates not only the answers, but the questions asked. In short, it controls the cosmological apparatus by which most American (s) comprehend the meaning of events. This cosmology is based on two great axioms: the first is there are no absolute values in the universe, no standards of beauty and ugliness, good and evil. The second aximo is- in a Godless universe- the Left holds moral superiority as the final arbiter of man's activities."



"How does one sever a people's roots? Answer: Destroy its memory. Deny a people the knowledge of who they are and where they came from."



"Cultural Marxists understood this. Their Critical Theory was a prototype of the politics of personal destruction. What the latter does to popular leaders, Critical Theory does to an entire nation through repeated assaults on its past. It is the moral equivalent of vandalizing the graves and desecrating the corpses of its ancestors. Many of the institutions that now have custody of America's past operate on the principles of Big Brother's Ministry of Truth: drop down the "memory hole" the patriotic stories of America's greatness and glory, and produce new "warts-and-all" histories that play up her crimes and sins, revealing what we have loved to be loathsome and those we have revered to be disreputable, even despicable. Many old heroes have not survived the killing fields of the New History. Ultimate goal: Destroy patriotism, kill the love of country, demoralize the people, deconstruct America. History then will no longer unite and inspire us, but depress and divide us into the children of victims and the children of the villains of America's past."



"In The Disuniting of America Arthur Schlesinger cites a character of Milans Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting:



The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was."



"To our new cultural elite, America's Civil War was a revolt of slave owners and traitors to destroy the Union to preserve their odious institution, and the Lost Cause was ignoble and dishonorable. Hence, the Confederate flag should be as repulsive as a Nazi swastika, and only white racists and the morally obtuse would defend that bloody banner. As for Lee and Jackson, they led hundreds of thousands to their deaths in an evil cause, and if the NAACP demands we rid the public square of all plaques, statues, or flags of the Confederacy, they are not only within their rights, they are morally right."



"What doe these incidents tell us? That those who loudly preach diversity often do not practice it, that those who decry intolerance may be found among the most intolerant. Like the Taliban and the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan, our cultural revolution intends to tear down all the flags and statues of the old America that it abhors. And it will hear no appeal. Whether a state chooses to honor Dr. King or Robert E Lee should be a decision for its own people. No stigma should attach to any state that chooses to honor one, both, or neither. But that is unacceptable."



"Not to honor Dr. King today is intolerable. When Arizona voted not to have a holiday for King, the state was theatened with loss of the Super Bowl and convention boycotts, and berated by the national press. The pressure and abuse were so unbearalbe that the state overturned a popular vote and ratified the holiday. Only then was Arizona permitted to rejoin the Union."



"In our Orwellian world of Newspeak, diversity means conformity. In the name of diversity, every military school must look alike. None may be all0male, even if that is what those to whom the school belongs desire. Is this freedom? Is this democracy? No. Orwell got it right "One makes the revolution...to establish the dictatorship." The French and Russian and Maoist and Khmer Rouge and Taliban revolutions all dethroned the old gods and desecrated their temples. So it is with our cultural revolution. It cannot abide dissent. Only after Senator McCain apologized for not having denounced the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina capitol, and confessed to opportunism and weakness, was he restored to the good graces of the revolution."



"The war on America's past and the dumbing down of American children- to make their minds empty vessels into which the New History may be poured- is succeeding. In a recent student survey, 556 seniors, from fifty-five of the nation's top rated0rated colleges and universities, were asked thirty-four questions from a high school course on U.S. history. Four out of five flunked. Only one-third of the college seniors could name the American general at Yorktown. Only 23 percent named Madison as the principal author of the Constitution. Only 22 percent linked the words "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The good news- 98 percent knew rapper Snoop Doggy Dog, and 99 percent identified Beavis and Butthead."





"Cultural Alzheimer's"



"A people without religion will in the end find that it has nothing to live for."



"Gramsci's answer- a "long march" through the institutions. The Marxists must cooperate with progressives to capture the institutions that shaped the souls of the young: schools, colleges, movies, music, arts, and the new mass media that came uncensored into every home, radio, and, after Gramsci's death, television. Once the cultural institutions were captured, a united Left could begin the de-Christianization of the West. When, after several generations, this was accomplished, the West would no longer be the West, but another civilization altogether, and control of the state would inevitably follow control of the culture."



"Art" he (Picasso) said, "is not to decorate apartments. Art is a weapon of revolution..."Wheeler Williams, one of America's great sculptors, "acknowledged that the purpose of modern art was to destroy man's faith in his cultural heritage." In other words, art is but another front of the cultural revolution's relentless war on Christianity."



"Art, it is said, is the mirror of the soul. T.S. Eliot called art the incarnation of a people's religion. If that is true, who or what inhabits the souls of these "artists"? What would happen if they mocked the Holocaust by presenting a computerized photo collage of a naked Anne Frank frolicking with SS troops at Auschwitz? Or put on a satirical minstrel show that mocked Dr. King?"



James Cooper:



"Conservatives, he said, seemingly never read Mao Tse0tung on waging cultural war against the west. Mao's essays were prescribed reading for the Herbert Marcuse-generation of the 1960s, who now run our cultural institutions...Conservatives were oblivious to the fact that...modern art- long separated from the idealism of Manet, Degas, Cezanne and Rodin- had become the purveyor of a destructive, degenerate, ugly, pornographic, Marxist, anti-American ideology."



"The revolution will coexist until it attains hegemony. Then it will dictate."



"The de-Christianization of America is a great gamble, a roll of the dice, with our civilization as the stakes. America has thrown overboard the moral compass by which the republic steered for two hundred years, and now it sails by dead reckoning. Reason alone, without Revelation, sets our course. The Founding Fathers warned that this was a bridge too far. No country could remain free unless virtuous, they said, and virtue could exist in the balance of faith. Do not "indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion," said Washington in his Farewell Address. "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." John Adams agreed: "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Consider what has happened to our society with over throw of the old moral order."



"No matter how far back you look, you will find that religion was always foundational to the great societies. Whether in India, China, Palestine, Greece, Carthage, Africa, or the civilizations of South and Central America, the story is always the same: Civilization arises from religion, and when the traditional religious beliefs of a nation are eroded, the nation dies".



T.S. Eliot-



"If Christianity goes, the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready-made. You must first wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren; and if we did not one of us would be happy in it."



"Moreover, many conservatives in politics, journalism, and broadcasting are far better versed in economics and foreign policy than in history, philosophy, or theology. As one wit has observed, "Republicans were put on this earth to cut taxes." At times, it seems that is the only reason they were put on this earth. Unschooled in matters of morality and culture, many are uncomfortable with such issues, have no interest in them, and don't believe they belong in politics. The late Richard Weaver had these conservatives in mind when he wrote that "many traditional positions in our world have suffered not so much because of inherent defect as because of the stupidity, ineptness and intellectual sloth of those who...are presumed to have their defense in charge." Confronted with moral, social, or cultural issues, these conservatives move swiftly off them and onto taxes and defense, where they feel on terra firma. But despite an ardent Republican wish that this culture war would just pass away, it will not pass away. For, as Trotsky said, "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."



Second, by capturing the institutions where the young spend most of their waking hours- MTV and prime-time, movies and magazines, schools and colleges- the revolution is able to shape the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the young. Artists, actors, playwrights, song writers, and popular singers are almost all on the other side. Op-ed page commentators and radio and TV talk show hosts cannot match this cultural firepower. The arsenals are unequal. Moreover, the entertainment that the cultural revolution has on offer is far more attractive and alluring; thus many of the children of traditionalists defect. Though as they grow older, many prodigal sons and daughters do ruefully return to their father's house."



"Calling opponents Nazis, fascists, and Klansmen, when it carries no penalty can be rewarding. It places an opponent outside the company of decent ment, discredits in advance what he says, and forces him to defend his character rather than his positions. And there are psychic rewards. After all, if one is standing up to Nazis or night riders, that is surely more heroic than standing up to Denny Hastert or Dick Armey. The more one demonizes an enemy, the more one "heroizes" oneself."



"What happened on 9/11/2001, was a direct consequence of an interventionist U.S. policy in an Islamic world where no threat to our vital interests justifies our massive involvement. We are a republic, not an empire. And until we restore the foreign policy urged upon us by our Founding Fathers- of staying out of other nations' quarrels- we shall know no end of war and no security or peace in our own homeland."



"Secession form this culture can take many forms- from giving up movies and TV, to blacking out channels, to homeschooling, to protesting outside abortion clinics, to moving to a less-polluted environment. The Amish seceded long ago. Orthodx Jews have seceded. Mormons seceded with Brigham Young's trek to the Great Sale Lake. Catholics in the nineteenth century removed their children from public schools to put them in parish schools. In the 1980s, Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians began to create an alternative culture and parallel institutions- Christian schools, TV shows, magazines, radio stations, networks, bookstores, and publishing houses. Millions of children attend Catholic and Christian schools; over a million are homeschooled. Addressing Catholic traditionalists, Wanderer columnist James K. Fitzpatrick writes, "We will have to adjust to life as a subculture with all that implies...The alternative is making our peace with the new America being shaped by the Hollywood porn merchants...That surrender is unthinkable."

