In my life the West decided no God no master. Consequently comes COVID-and prior to COVID other massive deceptions. A dark just so story is all darkness proclaimed as total truth. Materialism alone is true. No spirit but indigested cheese. Man is an animal, his organs spare parts, his value strictly as labor, the destination the grave, no dignity adheres to conception, to life, to death, to man. Mere protoplasm.
God is not a concept, an idea, a feeling, a sociological need. God is real and absolute reality. And in the consciousness of those who approach him sincerely, he will not fail to bear witness to himself. God will make sure that in his sight the sincere conscience acquires the freedom to see without blindness and to decide rightly. To those who pray: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, God will give the grace of a clear conscience.
Romano Guardini
The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture
Roland Végső
The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation.
The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
The COVID-19 period has highlighted a huge problem that has been developing for decades, that of social engineering.
In the 1950s, Adorno was one of those who contributed to mislead the youth of my generation. Like, among others, Monterey Pop Festival, Haight-Ashbury & Woodstock; Flower Power, as well as LSD-25… etc., an area which particularly interested intelligence personalities: J. Edgard Hoover & Allan Dulles, from 1953-1954… “The phenomenon of mass culture has a political implication, knowing that all the many forms of popular culture are part of a single cultural industry whose purpose is to secure the continued obedience of the masses. »
What is not clear is to what extent the works of Adorno & Horkheimer were taken over by the Anglo-Saxon intelligence agencies… or financed by them, in order to explore the worst recesses of human consciousness… at the time of the Cold War.
As Marc-Gabriel Draghi (2021) asserts, in these times of misery, “contrary to what one might think, the year 2020 proved to us that there was no conspiracy. There is an agenda, a detailed plan laid out clearly and officially by the transnational financial oligarchy for decades. Now only those who do not wish to see the implementation of the New World Order remain willfully blind…”
The kind of society we would be heading towards at high speed, often referred to as the World After, also the Great Reset or the "New World Order", would be a "hygienist-eugenicist-Marxist-merchant" type society containing a package of dystopian measures, a new kind of neoliberal fascism, that is, inverted and… technocratic totalitarianism; a brutalization of political behavior, often iniquitous and draconian.
We would then cross a line, first clearly described by Jacques Attali; who announced all this with elegant pragmatism, as early as 1979.
This is explicitly the establishment of the “model of ‘Chinese social credit’; which does not bode well for the West as a whole, in the short or medium term.
In my life the West decided no God no master. Consequently comes COVID-and prior to COVID other massive deceptions. A dark just so story is all darkness proclaimed as total truth. Materialism alone is true. No spirit but indigested cheese. Man is an animal, his organs spare parts, his value strictly as labor, the destination the grave, no dignity adheres to conception, to life, to death, to man. Mere protoplasm.
Ah, yes. We have gotten rather untethered without spiritual roots, haven’t we…
God is not a concept, an idea, a feeling, a sociological need. God is real and absolute reality. And in the consciousness of those who approach him sincerely, he will not fail to bear witness to himself. God will make sure that in his sight the sincere conscience acquires the freedom to see without blindness and to decide rightly. To those who pray: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, God will give the grace of a clear conscience.
Romano Guardini
The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture
Roland Végső
The Naked Communist argues that the political ideologies of modernity were fundamentally determined by four basic figures: the world, the enemy, the secret, and the catastrophe. While the "world" names the totality that functioned as the ultimate horizon of modern political imagination, the three other figures define the necessary limits of this totality by reflecting on the limits of representation.
The book highlights the enduring presence of these figures in the modern imagination through detailed analysis of a concrete historical example: American anti-Communist politics of the 1950s. Its primary objective is to describe the internal mechanisms of what we could call an anti- Communist "aesthetic ideology." The book thus traces the way anti-Communist popular culture emerged in the discourse of Cold War liberalism as a political symptom of modernism. Based on a discursive analysis of American anti-Communist politics, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction from the 1950s (nuclear holocaust novels, spy novels, and popular political novels) in order to show that, despite the radical separation of the two cultural fields, they both participated in a common ideological program.
The COVID-19 period has highlighted a huge problem that has been developing for decades, that of social engineering.
In the 1950s, Adorno was one of those who contributed to mislead the youth of my generation. Like, among others, Monterey Pop Festival, Haight-Ashbury & Woodstock; Flower Power, as well as LSD-25… etc., an area which particularly interested intelligence personalities: J. Edgard Hoover & Allan Dulles, from 1953-1954… “The phenomenon of mass culture has a political implication, knowing that all the many forms of popular culture are part of a single cultural industry whose purpose is to secure the continued obedience of the masses. »
What is not clear is to what extent the works of Adorno & Horkheimer were taken over by the Anglo-Saxon intelligence agencies… or financed by them, in order to explore the worst recesses of human consciousness… at the time of the Cold War.
As Marc-Gabriel Draghi (2021) asserts, in these times of misery, “contrary to what one might think, the year 2020 proved to us that there was no conspiracy. There is an agenda, a detailed plan laid out clearly and officially by the transnational financial oligarchy for decades. Now only those who do not wish to see the implementation of the New World Order remain willfully blind…”
The kind of society we would be heading towards at high speed, often referred to as the World After, also the Great Reset or the "New World Order", would be a "hygienist-eugenicist-Marxist-merchant" type society containing a package of dystopian measures, a new kind of neoliberal fascism, that is, inverted and… technocratic totalitarianism; a brutalization of political behavior, often iniquitous and draconian.
We would then cross a line, first clearly described by Jacques Attali; who announced all this with elegant pragmatism, as early as 1979.
This is explicitly the establishment of the “model of ‘Chinese social credit’; which does not bode well for the West as a whole, in the short or medium term.
I’ve heard much of this before in bits and pieces, but it’s chilling to watch the dots come together.
All the truths are spiritual. Other than this convenient tales, a dark "Just So" story told to make children fear and obey.
Can you elaborate? I'm not sure I understand your meaning when you speak of the dark "Just So" story...