Mr. Wellmann, that essay of yours is the best thing I have read this summer. Thank you so much. “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” ― Milan Kundera Not only a nation, but all of Western civilization.
Excellent article Jan and that’s an understatement. Your brilliant piece has captured the evolution of CRT at its roots. In a way Frankfurt School is seeking to create an Ubermensch today by creating a blueprint of an ideal man and forcing everyone to confirm. The attempt by CRT to change our past is analogous to CIA’s program you beautifully outlined. This is being reinforced by AI which seeks to change historical characters identity to ensure conformity.
Hillsdale College will be doing it's own online FACTUAL (and free) class on The Odyssey to counter this pop-culture attack on Western civilization, hopefully before "The Idiocy" can do too much damage to further rot what's left of the peons' alleged brains.
Hillsdale collects the money for it's free online courses from the people who want to take them, i.e. folks like you (well, okay--I don't know about YOU, l.o.l.), and me. The class you are proposing is a commentary on the course of Christianity's history and how humans have shaped, or mis-shaped it- and not on what Christ actually taught. Most of us adults in the room learned the difference 40+ years ago :-) If you don't agree that Hillsdale's courses are providing a comparatively sane point of view on the topic of human nature as contrasted with the currently fashionable Progressive Leftist bee ess, you can always jump back on that radical Leftists' bandwagon. Alternatively, you can just re-read The Odyssey-- you know, the part where Oddyseus is warned by Circe about trying to fight Every Last Little Thing, because YOU CAN'T win 'em all. Duh.
I'm not on either side. They both screwed us. I gave up on voting by party. I vote on issues like stopping illegal wars and against corporate control of government.
Possibly we need to understand the basic physics of why we get sucked down these rabbit holes. That structure is recursive and the feedback loops need the occasional circuit breakers to maintain contact with context.
Excellent! Along with the actual Odyssey, as well as Frankenstein's Monster, 1984 and Brave New World, this post needs to be read in every high school English class in the U.S.
Mr. Wellmann, that essay of yours is the best thing I have read this summer. Thank you so much. “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” ― Milan Kundera Not only a nation, but all of Western civilization.
Thank you Lydia, you just made me an inch taller 🫡
Superb article. You are right. Not seeing the film is an act of defiance against a world that is heading in a scary and horrific direction.
Excellent article Jan and that’s an understatement. Your brilliant piece has captured the evolution of CRT at its roots. In a way Frankfurt School is seeking to create an Ubermensch today by creating a blueprint of an ideal man and forcing everyone to confirm. The attempt by CRT to change our past is analogous to CIA’s program you beautifully outlined. This is being reinforced by AI which seeks to change historical characters identity to ensure conformity.
Hillsdale College will be doing it's own online FACTUAL (and free) class on The Odyssey to counter this pop-culture attack on Western civilization, hopefully before "The Idiocy" can do too much damage to further rot what's left of the peons' alleged brains.
If only hillsdale could do a course on what Jesus taught actually goes against what modern Christianity has become, including the pro war narrative.
But then they would piss off their pay pigs. 🤣
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Wow, they need $50k to make an online course?
Hillsdale collects the money for it's free online courses from the people who want to take them, i.e. folks like you (well, okay--I don't know about YOU, l.o.l.), and me. The class you are proposing is a commentary on the course of Christianity's history and how humans have shaped, or mis-shaped it- and not on what Christ actually taught. Most of us adults in the room learned the difference 40+ years ago :-) If you don't agree that Hillsdale's courses are providing a comparatively sane point of view on the topic of human nature as contrasted with the currently fashionable Progressive Leftist bee ess, you can always jump back on that radical Leftists' bandwagon. Alternatively, you can just re-read The Odyssey-- you know, the part where Oddyseus is warned by Circe about trying to fight Every Last Little Thing, because YOU CAN'T win 'em all. Duh.
I'm not on either side. They both screwed us. I gave up on voting by party. I vote on issues like stopping illegal wars and against corporate control of government.
They're both gangs
DemoCRIPS and RepubliBLOODS
🤣
"I'm for No One!" 🤣🤣🤣
That's the trick both parties play.
The illusion of choice.
When the Republicans impeached Clinton they didn't go after him for his actual crimes, they put on a show with the Lewinsky affair.
When the Democrats wanted to impeach Trump, they didn't go after the emoluments clause he violated.
And you can see how in Congress, both parties profit from war with insider trading. Neither side wants to stop conflicts of interest.
Meanwhile civil servants can lose their jobs and pensions for conflicts of interest.
Politics is like WWE pro wrestling, where on the stage they're fighting each other but backstage, they all work for the same bosses.
Trump was once in the WWE. 🤣
Read as a fatalistic tale, a factual one, wrapped up with a glimmer of Homeric Hope. The Fourth Turning is alive and the wise
search the detritus for a kernel of inspiration.
Naaaah-- "They" just have the "megaphone," for the time being. But we know just what "story" they keep broadcasting, eh ;-)
Thanks for the extensive history, and the insights. Very coherent.
Possibly we need to understand the basic physics of why we get sucked down these rabbit holes. That structure is recursive and the feedback loops need the occasional circuit breakers to maintain contact with context.
https://substack.com/@johnmerryman/p-193985079
Thanks for a great article.
Really enjoying this substack's analysis of Homer
https://armenikus.substack.com/p/join-the-odyssey-read-along-may-july
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Excellent! Along with the actual Odyssey, as well as Frankenstein's Monster, 1984 and Brave New World, this post needs to be read in every high school English class in the U.S.
Like you, I’m just stoked to see the movie!
L.o.l.-- Unlike most of "yous," I'M stoked to REREAD The Oddysey, and not the "critical" post-modernist bull$hit Victims' version--!!!
What is your favorite translation? I like the Lattimore for the Iliad, but enjoy Fitzgerald more with the Odyssey. How about you?
Wow this was very well written!