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| Surber: The menticide of America |
| 2022-05-17 |
| I learned a new word this weekend: menticide. It means "the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person's values and beliefs, as by the use of prolonged interrogation, drugs, torture, etc., and to induce radically different ideas." In short, brainwashing. Apply that word to American society and you realize that you don't need prolonged interrogation, drugs or torture to get a society to kill itself. All you need is 70 years of attacks on the core beliefs of a nation to bring it down. Liberals have replaced common sense with mental illness. They tell us nonsense such as men can have babies, and the government now pretends it is true. The erosion of what made America great began gradually. Playboy began the erasure of our sexual mores. Rock 'n' roll began the popularization of the recreational use of drugs. State lotteries began the acceptance of gambling instead of producing goods and services. We gave into our impulses. Americans no longer have a wonderful life. The Bedford Falls of the 1950s is now Pottersville with booze, gambling and hookers. Look at where we are today. People poop in the streets of San Francisco without punishment. Stores are regularly looted in Democrat Party havens again without punishment. Criminals regularly knock little old ladies down and shove Asians into oncoming subway trains again without punishment. Gangbangers routinely shoot, maim and kill young black people again without punishment. Only 1 in 6 murders in Chicago is solved despite a police staff of more than 13,000 workers. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 "If it feels good, do it" has gotten our society STDs, increasing numbers of financial swindles where the swindlers walked away clean while the little guy got skinned back, grade inflation, phony degrees that are worth nothing but cost six figures in borrowed money to obtain, and so on. Now it's getting us CRT and grooming in schools. It's getting us the freakshow in Portland and San Fransicko. And it's not halftime yet... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-17 12:55 |
| #2 We traded Norman Rockwell for Andy Warhol. That's what you call degenerate. America today is degenerate. My memory still works and I remember the 1950's. I remember when America still looked more like a Rockwell painting than a Warhol...back in the days when people still went to church on Sunday. Things are different today. TV, radio and the movies became far more powerful after WWII. Cab Calloway may have smoked reefer but when John Lennon sang about Strawberry Fields everybody wanted to go there. Deny it at your own peril: Hugh Hefner played a part in the change. So did the Beatles. So did Lyndon Johnson if you want to be honest. It happened on his watch. We weren't going to hell with Eisenhower but with LBJ we did. Kennedy's assassination was the turning point. That's when things started getting weird. Listen to the recording of Jimi Hendrix playing The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. It was like flying the American flag upside down and shining a black light on it. Without any words, probably without even knowing it, he was telling the world that we have a problem. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-05-17 12:27 |
| #1 Playboy began the erasure of our sexual mores. Never seen a pre-Hayes Code movies, has he? Rock 'n' roll began the popularization of the recreational use of drugs. Never heard of jazz or swing, or even listened to popular radio shows from the 40s and 50s, either. The band on Jack Benny's show was the butt of jokes about their intemperance -- and not just of alcohol. Rochester was a gambler and womanizer (and it wasn't portrayed as a flaw in his character). State lotteries began the acceptance of gambling Lotteries date back to the first days of the Republic. Did Surber write this? Is he really this ignorant? Has he honestly bought into a view of the 1950s as distorted as the left's? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-05-17 10:34 |