Thank you for sharing this very interesting article. I knew a little of the Frankfurt School, but nothing of how they adapted and continued in the post-WWII world. They certainly put much thought and effort into how best to destroy the social and economic norms that have held society together for so long. It wasn’t perfect what we had (and took for granted), but in this imperfect world it truly was the best system yet a flawed humanity has come up with that allows the greatest opportunities for people of good intent to thrive.
Only knowing our enemies’s tools & the ideology behind it will give us the clarity to stiffen our collective spine and kick these ideas and their purveyors to the curb with a firm and unyielding “NO”.
Before mass formation psychosis.....Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity......Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on dead ears. Bonhoeffer's famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
When I was in University we were exposed to postmodern theorists and to Marxist theories, I recognize Adorno, Gramsci, Marcuse and others. It helped me to think critically about Advanced Capitalism. I do not think Socialism is the enemy you are saying it is. In Canada, the UK and a number of countries in Europe And Australia, we have some form of Socialism I think we do better than the US at taking care of people. I think the fear of Socialism and the far left in the US only serves Advanced Capitalism which in turn only serves the very wealthy. I think the real enemy is authoritarian type systems like Russia and China that only serve the power elite. Neither Russia or China are Sociast or Communist they are authoritarian Autocracies.
I think Advanced Capitalism is evolving into authoritarianism where the government is bought and sold by the powerful and wealthy few. It is hard to clearly see this if you are embedded in it.
Yes I agree extremists of the far left or far right are both interested in destroying democracy but the evidence is showing that the far right is much more organized doing most of the damage and more lethal
Thank you for sharing this very interesting article. I knew a little of the Frankfurt School, but nothing of how they adapted and continued in the post-WWII world. They certainly put much thought and effort into how best to destroy the social and economic norms that have held society together for so long. It wasn’t perfect what we had (and took for granted), but in this imperfect world it truly was the best system yet a flawed humanity has come up with that allows the greatest opportunities for people of good intent to thrive.
Only knowing our enemies’s tools & the ideology behind it will give us the clarity to stiffen our collective spine and kick these ideas and their purveyors to the curb with a firm and unyielding “NO”.
Before mass formation psychosis.....Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity......Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on dead ears. Bonhoeffer's famous text, which we slightly edited for this video, serves any free society as a warning of what can happen when certain people gain too much power.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww47bR86wSc
When I was in University we were exposed to postmodern theorists and to Marxist theories, I recognize Adorno, Gramsci, Marcuse and others. It helped me to think critically about Advanced Capitalism. I do not think Socialism is the enemy you are saying it is. In Canada, the UK and a number of countries in Europe And Australia, we have some form of Socialism I think we do better than the US at taking care of people. I think the fear of Socialism and the far left in the US only serves Advanced Capitalism which in turn only serves the very wealthy. I think the real enemy is authoritarian type systems like Russia and China that only serve the power elite. Neither Russia or China are Sociast or Communist they are authoritarian Autocracies.
I think Advanced Capitalism is evolving into authoritarianism where the government is bought and sold by the powerful and wealthy few. It is hard to clearly see this if you are embedded in it.
Yes I agree extremists of the far left or far right are both interested in destroying democracy but the evidence is showing that the far right is much more organized doing most of the damage and more lethal
Tienanmen Square lite = January 6