1. In March, 2010, the University of California, at Berkeley, hosted the annual Cultural Studies Association Conference. There is no better place to reveal the effects of decades of Leftist indoctrination, and the impending doom of this once great nation.
2. One young faculty member gives a talk in which he criticizes homeowners for "participating in global capitalism." It is filled with plenty of rhetoric about "the hegemony of absolute space," and "ontological security,' and so on. His point: "We have no claim on family property." He goes further:
"When we succumb to pity for an old woman losing her house we abandon social justice." Mark the theme: no individual's monopolistic rights!
a. One can see the effects: the eco-fascists have imposed the same kind of thinking on the environment: " The delusion has led to the sequestration of productive land unmatched since the age of kings. Over 30% of the American land base lies under no-use or limited-use restrictions .almost 700 million acres. The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are targeting the confiscation of another 213 million acres, bringing the count to nearly half of the continent!" http://r-calfusa.com/Trade/property_rights/100900BLMLeakedMemo.pdf
b. In 1992, the UN-variety socialist, Maurice Strong, announced: Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. (Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit)
3. Another young speaker lectures about the iconic 1972 photo of a little girl running naked and terrified from a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She is shocked that the girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, has not only forgiven the United States, but is now traveling around the country celebrating American freedom! This incenses the speaker, for whom that old photo conveys such a powerful anti-American message. What happens to the message, she asks, when the girl grows up to do such a terrible thing? Kim Phúc's "loving embrace of America seems a betrayal of the photo." What, she asks, are we "as theorists" to make of the fact that Kim Phúc "appears not to feel anger when we think she should?"
4. Then the author of a paper was entitled "Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Value and Human Domination over Nature." What to make of that title, together with the speaker's 'Valley Girl' patois: "Um, I'm like a grad student at UC Davis?" and, since the "critique of capitalism has faded in significance," she's "sort of reviving a Gramscian-style Marxism." She goes on to describe global warming as "sort of like, a crisis, in the human relationship to nature?" and as "a natural result of the human alienation from nature under capitalism." Then, she cites several authorities who speak of "a sort of, like, physical or spatial alienation?"...but adds that she intends to go beyond them.
5. These young people are smart, upper-middle-class kids, with little real-world experience and even less in the way of serious education. One after another of them pronounces with an imperial air of authority on things about which they plainly know next to nothing. Their familiarity with history, literature, philosophy, or any other traditional field of learning is rudimentary at best. What they have is ideology and the jargon to go with it. And they have the arrogance of innocents who have no clue as to have very little they know.
Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."
a. "The result? Students who develop a suffocating sense of superiority, who pass judgment on authors as racist, sexist, capitalist, imperialist or homophobic before even reading their works. Political correctness is not designed to produce students who think for themselves, but, rather, cadres of self-absorbed reactionaries ready to take their orders from the movement."
Pearcey, "Saving Leonardo," chapter eight.
b. One father, a professional film critic, found he could not understand his daughters film studies textbook, which was packed with Left-wing buzzwords, including fibula, and syuzhet. He asked her what they were. Theyre Russian formulist terms for story and plot.
Why dont they use story and plot? Were not allowed to. If we do, they take points off our paper.
From Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. - Los Angeles Times
6. What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few conservatives.
- Grover Furr, professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin
In place of education, the Left has substituted politicization.
What they have produced is not a generation of educated thinkers, but a cadre
of robots who take their orders from the movement.
Q.E.D.
2. One young faculty member gives a talk in which he criticizes homeowners for "participating in global capitalism." It is filled with plenty of rhetoric about "the hegemony of absolute space," and "ontological security,' and so on. His point: "We have no claim on family property." He goes further:
"When we succumb to pity for an old woman losing her house we abandon social justice." Mark the theme: no individual's monopolistic rights!
a. One can see the effects: the eco-fascists have imposed the same kind of thinking on the environment: " The delusion has led to the sequestration of productive land unmatched since the age of kings. Over 30% of the American land base lies under no-use or limited-use restrictions .almost 700 million acres. The Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior are targeting the confiscation of another 213 million acres, bringing the count to nearly half of the continent!" http://r-calfusa.com/Trade/property_rights/100900BLMLeakedMemo.pdf
b. In 1992, the UN-variety socialist, Maurice Strong, announced: Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, the use of fossil fuels, electrical appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable. (Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 UN Rio Earth Summit)
3. Another young speaker lectures about the iconic 1972 photo of a little girl running naked and terrified from a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She is shocked that the girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, has not only forgiven the United States, but is now traveling around the country celebrating American freedom! This incenses the speaker, for whom that old photo conveys such a powerful anti-American message. What happens to the message, she asks, when the girl grows up to do such a terrible thing? Kim Phúc's "loving embrace of America seems a betrayal of the photo." What, she asks, are we "as theorists" to make of the fact that Kim Phúc "appears not to feel anger when we think she should?"
4. Then the author of a paper was entitled "Towards a Green Marxist Cultural Studies: Notes on Value and Human Domination over Nature." What to make of that title, together with the speaker's 'Valley Girl' patois: "Um, I'm like a grad student at UC Davis?" and, since the "critique of capitalism has faded in significance," she's "sort of reviving a Gramscian-style Marxism." She goes on to describe global warming as "sort of like, a crisis, in the human relationship to nature?" and as "a natural result of the human alienation from nature under capitalism." Then, she cites several authorities who speak of "a sort of, like, physical or spatial alienation?"...but adds that she intends to go beyond them.
5. These young people are smart, upper-middle-class kids, with little real-world experience and even less in the way of serious education. One after another of them pronounces with an imperial air of authority on things about which they plainly know next to nothing. Their familiarity with history, literature, philosophy, or any other traditional field of learning is rudimentary at best. What they have is ideology and the jargon to go with it. And they have the arrogance of innocents who have no clue as to have very little they know.
Bawer, "The Victim's Revolution."
a. "The result? Students who develop a suffocating sense of superiority, who pass judgment on authors as racist, sexist, capitalist, imperialist or homophobic before even reading their works. Political correctness is not designed to produce students who think for themselves, but, rather, cadres of self-absorbed reactionaries ready to take their orders from the movement."
Pearcey, "Saving Leonardo," chapter eight.
b. One father, a professional film critic, found he could not understand his daughters film studies textbook, which was packed with Left-wing buzzwords, including fibula, and syuzhet. He asked her what they were. Theyre Russian formulist terms for story and plot.
Why dont they use story and plot? Were not allowed to. If we do, they take points off our paper.
From Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology. - Los Angeles Times
6. What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few conservatives.
- Grover Furr, professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin
In place of education, the Left has substituted politicization.
What they have produced is not a generation of educated thinkers, but a cadre
of robots who take their orders from the movement.
Q.E.D.
