Has there ever been a more malevolent and dishonest school of thought than the Crit Theorists of Frankfurt? Has History ever seen less grateful refugees than Marcuse et al. who were rescued from the European inferno, given safe and prosperous lives here in America, only to constantly reflexively denounce the country and people who'd save…
Has there ever been a more malevolent and dishonest school of thought than the Crit Theorists of Frankfurt? Has History ever seen less grateful refugees than Marcuse et al. who were rescued from the European inferno, given safe and prosperous lives here in America, only to constantly reflexively denounce the country and people who'd saved them and work for their ultimate destruction? (Marcuse even claimed there was more freedom in the USSR than in the USA! And yet he chose California over Moscow for some reason.)
And while these con men refused to explain the contours of their future utopia, at least Adorno may have gotten a glimpse of it when he went back to Germany to teach in the 60s.
His students, the first generation of post-WW2 spoiled infants who lived in unprecedented safety and prosperity, toyed with the old man, mocked him for being a bourgeois geezer, could only express themselves in either fantasies of destruction or lewd innuendo.
"I established a theoretical model of thought," Adorno remarked. "How could I have suspected that people would want to implement it with Molotov cocktails?"
LOLOL Now this tells us all we need to know about the eternal divide between cossetted thinkers who live in the world of the symbolic and actual humans who fight and struggle—not to mention all the sadists, scammers and opportunists who use "theoretical models" to veil their motives and who are a bit tougher than ol' Adorno, who always had a servant nearby ready with his pipe and slippers.
But either way they won and we lost and now we get to see what "liberation" looks like (or as Marcuse called it: "freedom from the established reality"): multiple generations of miserable narcisssists who know nothing but their desires and genitals, who are so fattened on fantasy that the slighest touch of reality causes a jarring ego shock they can only respond to with tantrums and denunciations.
And most hilarious of all: now that all established traditions are mocked, weakened and severed—nation, religion, community, family etc—we can see who rules unimpeded and crafts every brain and soul to its precise specifications: the Market God. Who says capitalism and socialism are opposites? The Crit Theorists and their utopian nihilism turned out to be the greatest gift the ownership class could ever ask for.
The CIA used the Frankfurters, some real dicks, as part of their creation of controlled opposition on the Left. The totalitarianism inherent to the "left" was useful idiocy to the corporate-state/ military-industrial-complex.
Every ideological superstructure has a materialist base and class base (which in the case of ["woke"] totalitarian humanism would be digital capital, the tech revolution, “financialization” of the kind that has emerged from neoliberalism, the expanded technocratic class which is the product of the wider degree of specialization and the division of labor rooted in increased technological sophistication).
Additionally, “wokeness” is rooted in the wider infrastructure of statecraft which can be traced, at the irreducible minimum, to the
[--->] collusion between the Frankfurt School and the OSS during WW2,
followed by the CIA’s creation of the Congress of Cultural Freedom in the 1950s. While elements of the ideological framework of totalitarian humanism may have their roots in the cultural revolution of the 1960s/1970s,
[--->] in its present form “wokeness” represents a co-optation of those cultural patterns
by the liberal wing of the capitalist class ( a specific strategy that was devised by Fred Dutton as far back as 1970). The insurgent sectors of the managerial class (primarily the expanded professional class and rising middle-class sectors among traditional outgroups) became the socioeconomic foundation for this co-optation, which allowed the liberal wing of capitalism to marginalize labor unions while cultivating these rising middle-class sectors as a replacement constituency for the traditional working class [meaning D-party voters].
Has there ever been a more malevolent and dishonest school of thought than the Crit Theorists of Frankfurt? Has History ever seen less grateful refugees than Marcuse et al. who were rescued from the European inferno, given safe and prosperous lives here in America, only to constantly reflexively denounce the country and people who'd saved them and work for their ultimate destruction? (Marcuse even claimed there was more freedom in the USSR than in the USA! And yet he chose California over Moscow for some reason.)
And while these con men refused to explain the contours of their future utopia, at least Adorno may have gotten a glimpse of it when he went back to Germany to teach in the 60s.
His students, the first generation of post-WW2 spoiled infants who lived in unprecedented safety and prosperity, toyed with the old man, mocked him for being a bourgeois geezer, could only express themselves in either fantasies of destruction or lewd innuendo.
"I established a theoretical model of thought," Adorno remarked. "How could I have suspected that people would want to implement it with Molotov cocktails?"
LOLOL Now this tells us all we need to know about the eternal divide between cossetted thinkers who live in the world of the symbolic and actual humans who fight and struggle—not to mention all the sadists, scammers and opportunists who use "theoretical models" to veil their motives and who are a bit tougher than ol' Adorno, who always had a servant nearby ready with his pipe and slippers.
But either way they won and we lost and now we get to see what "liberation" looks like (or as Marcuse called it: "freedom from the established reality"): multiple generations of miserable narcisssists who know nothing but their desires and genitals, who are so fattened on fantasy that the slighest touch of reality causes a jarring ego shock they can only respond to with tantrums and denunciations.
And most hilarious of all: now that all established traditions are mocked, weakened and severed—nation, religion, community, family etc—we can see who rules unimpeded and crafts every brain and soul to its precise specifications: the Market God. Who says capitalism and socialism are opposites? The Crit Theorists and their utopian nihilism turned out to be the greatest gift the ownership class could ever ask for.
Damn my wigga !
Yeah.
Well sorta wigga, Italian..
letcha in !
Jumped in !
lolol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM
This explains it all ;))
Walken is the man
Moors = Berbers + Arabs
And Sicilians may have Turk too
… its a nice selling point for the script, not accurate.
Lol
is false yet hilarious
Only a name like Tarantino could safely write those words.
The CIA used the Frankfurters, some real dicks, as part of their creation of controlled opposition on the Left. The totalitarianism inherent to the "left" was useful idiocy to the corporate-state/ military-industrial-complex.
Source?
https://attackthesystem.com/2021/12/06/curtis-yarvin-mencius-moldbug-on-tucker-carlson-today-09-08-21/
excerpt:
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Every ideological superstructure has a materialist base and class base (which in the case of ["woke"] totalitarian humanism would be digital capital, the tech revolution, “financialization” of the kind that has emerged from neoliberalism, the expanded technocratic class which is the product of the wider degree of specialization and the division of labor rooted in increased technological sophistication).
Additionally, “wokeness” is rooted in the wider infrastructure of statecraft which can be traced, at the irreducible minimum, to the
[--->] collusion between the Frankfurt School and the OSS during WW2,
followed by the CIA’s creation of the Congress of Cultural Freedom in the 1950s. While elements of the ideological framework of totalitarian humanism may have their roots in the cultural revolution of the 1960s/1970s,
[--->] in its present form “wokeness” represents a co-optation of those cultural patterns
by the liberal wing of the capitalist class ( a specific strategy that was devised by Fred Dutton as far back as 1970). The insurgent sectors of the managerial class (primarily the expanded professional class and rising middle-class sectors among traditional outgroups) became the socioeconomic foundation for this co-optation, which allowed the liberal wing of capitalism to marginalize labor unions while cultivating these rising middle-class sectors as a replacement constituency for the traditional working class [meaning D-party voters].
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