I disagree, but I appreciate your consideration of the subject. And no, Phil, I wouldn't ever laugh at sincere misery. I honestly don't think you understand or accept what this is all about. But, again, I don't want to argue with you...
Among the new weapons of cultural conflict, the Frankfurt School [an academic center of Marxist writings and teachings, saved from the Nazis, and showed their gratitude by trying to destroy the U.S.] developed was Critical Theory. The name sounds benign enough, but it stands for a practice that is anything but benign.
One student of Critical Theory defined it as the "essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, heirarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention and conservatism."
Using Critical Theory, for example, the cultural Marxist repeats and repeats the charge that the West is guilty of genocidal crimes against every civilization and culture it has encountered. Under Critical Theory, one repeats and repeats that Western societies are history's greatest repositories of racism, sexism, nativism, xenophobia, homophobia, antisemitism, fascism and nazism.
Under Critical Theory, the crimes of the West flow from the character of the West, are shaped by Christianity.
One model example is "attack politics", where surrogates and spin-doctors never defend their own candidate, but attack and attack the opposition.
Another example of Critical Theory is the relentless assault on [Pope] Pius XII as complicit in the Holocaust, no matter the volumes of evidence that show the accusation to be a lie.
Critical Theory eventually induces "cultural pessimism", a sense of alienation, of hopelessness, of despair. Where, even though prosperous and free, a people comes to see its society and country as oppressive, evil, unworthy of their loyalty and love. The new Marxists considered cultural pessimism a necessary precondition of cultural change.
Under the impact of Critical Theory, many of the sixties generation, the most priveleged in history, convinced themselves they were living in an intolerable hell.
