The Marine Corps has plans for a big overhaul designed to address its lack of diversity and problem with retaining troops. The goal is "to reflect America, to reflect the society we come from," says Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps. https://t.co/S7scORzgwQ
— NPR (@NPR) November 12, 2021
From July 28: "The American political system may be on the eve of its worst legitimacy crisis since the Civil War. Early warning signals indicate that many states could suffer catastrophic failures in counting votes in November..." https://t.co/VIqWb5XECf
— James Bovard (@JimBovard) November 30, 2020
Our current cultural madness can trace its lineage back to the Frankfurt School, where innovative Marxists developed a new approach to deconstruct Western civilization.
— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) November 4, 2020
Read Bill Lind's diagnosis, "Cultural Marxism is Marxist," in the November Chronicles: https://t.co/3YuOdikhoA
"Most people are fed up with PC, with children telling adults what words they may or may not use and thoughts they may or may not think." Trump Unbound could strike a real blow. William S. Lind: https://t.co/F12TMjUNDN
— The American Conservative (@amconmag) October 26, 2020
Critical race theory is a subset of critical theory, which in turn is a central element in cultural Marxism. Like the bulk of that hideous ideology, it was created by the Frankfurt School, formally the Institute for Social Research, a Marxist think-tank founded in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1923 (it still exists). When Hitler came to power, the Frankfurt School relocated to New York City, where it remained until 1947 when it returned to Frankfurt.
The Frankfurt School translated Marxism from economic into cultural terms. The Frankfurt School’s primary goal was to destroy Western culture, which it defined as “oppressive”. Critical theory is a tool to that end.
Critical theory now wells up around us in many different forms. Feminism endlessly criticizes the family, marriage, and traditional definitions of men’s and women’s roles. Education theory demands children be taught certain “attitudes”, including disrespect for parents and elders, rather than skills or facts. Critical race theory says that all whites are inherently evil “racists” and “oppressors”, regardless of what individuals do. It demands whites grovel at the feet of blacks, endlessly apologizing for “discrimination” and “white privilege”. Even if whites do what it demands, critical race theory continues to denounce them. Like the rest of critical theory, its demands can never be satisfied, because then the criticism would end. Remember, the theory is to criticize, endlessly, relentlessly, until any defenders of Western culture or traditional ways of living are silenced, “cancelled” or liquidated.
The American State is losing legitimacy and the next president can do little to restore it. People are transferring their loyalty from the State to causes like race, religion, ideology, or politics. Welcome to "Fourth Generation War."https://t.co/fsg3Y7jWuF
— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) October 20, 2020
To be sure, Wolfgang isn’t entirely approving of the Benedict Option:
No one in Christian life today fills the space that Neuhaus/Novak/Weigel did 20 years ago. No one has a comprehensive vision of the near-future like theirs, and no one offers a battle plan like theirs. In that empty space, we get Patrick Deneen and Rod Dreher. They’re smart guys who are trying to think our way out of this. But they haven’t answered the challenges either.
I can’t really argue with him there, but in my own defense (and in partial defense of George Weigel), the challenges are so massive and protean that I don’t think it’s possible to discern a comprehensive vision of the near-future, much less formulate a battle plan.
Actually, in a way, General Milley did do something about that: he made it official. Not long ago, he ordered the U.S. Army to return to its World War II-era uniforms, the so-called “pinks and greens”. As costumes, the old/new uniforms will be a great improvement. The fact that they are costumes recognizes the reality that a Second Generation army is useless for a real war and exists only to stage public entertainments.
