I would highly suggest everybody check out this video by Vertigo Politix. It covers the history of the Frankfurt institute and the areas of their cultural revolution, in case anybody needed a refresher for why much of society has become poisoned.
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letting them in was a mistake. should have shipped them right on back to germany.
Very interesting-looking article. I will read it closely later this morning. In the meantime . . . Max Weber dug Otto Gross. That's a relationship worth exploring via the link.
Referring to "The Origins of the Counterculture" essay, what is it about Switzerland that has made it a hub for drugs, the home of Sandoz, Albert Hofmann's lab for the synthesis of Psilocybin and LSD, as well as a destination for drug aficionados of all tastes? It's also been called by various wise guys a "utopia." I suppose it's the great natural beauty and concentration of wealth and history of political neutrality.
Getting away from the roots of Postmodernism, I'd say the cultural upheaval of the '60s included a corruption of the "human potential movement" brought about by the advent of half-baked new-age ideas disseminated in large part by the CIA to discredit any legitimate or healthy Psychedelian spiritual practices, giving advantage to crackpots like Jean Huston, Tim Leary, and Terence McKenna, lumping them together with genuine philosophers with useful insights like Alan Watts and Art Kleps.
Leary and his stupid politics didn't help matters, either.
Just that link alone is huge drop of lore with names, books and facts. But through it all it all comes down to one thing:
About people who refuse to aspire to be anything more than fuck animals and only participate in the society to tear it down so that everyone will become fuck animals.
The origins are irrelevant if they do not have somewhere to take hold. We all know that was done in academia, the media, and entertainment. I'm not discounting the esoteric history, just that it's a rabbit hole you can easily get lost in and have no connection to reality.
I found the infogalactic article (which seems to have been salvaged from Wikipedia) pretty good
https://infogalactic.com/info/Cultural_Marxism
Look boys we have a genuine lefty here. Capitalism isn't poisonous to society, it's the only functional economic system - and we don't have one.
Nationalist capitalism puts citizens interests first via tariffs and other protectionist acts being the primary fundraising for government. This is the system the US started as. Through concerted effort of the banking elites since the first agitations for a national bank, this system has been corrupted into a corporate oligarchy.
A corporate oligarchy is not capitalist. It is feudalist.
It's the only economic system period. Any alternative systems are simply mutated forms of capitalism with tacked on rules attempting to "fix" reality to make it more fair, by some definition of fair. That and groups with government monopolization of force attempting to exploit the system for their own benefit. (like side-tapping into someone else's oil rig)
Then again he said liberal capitalism which is another qualifier that allows some leeway in interpretation. I'd like to read his book on "Illiberal Capitalism". From his essays I don't think he supports Authoritarian capitalism.
No - capitalism is not toxic.
Communism and socialist systems are, by definition.
I think capitalism is great.
You’re the one that seems to think your communist and fascist children look ugly (and rightfully so - they are hideously oppressive systems with little chance to correct once instituted.) Might want to take a page from Michael Jackson and take a look at the man in the mirror
Capitalism is defined by two features: private decision making and free and open markets. Are you advocating for one or both of these features to be abolished?
Do you think your ability to choose to say that is also an outdated fiction that you were manipulated into?