Post-Modern Postmortem (An article from our new Freeper-run literary magazine!)

The Tarpeian Rock ^ | 1/1/2003 | Antoninus

[Antoninus]

Well, I like the idea of this.

Thanks. I've seen a lot of what
Passes for poetry
These days and to be honest,
A lot of it is
Just intellectual laziness.
Some might even consider this
Post a poem.
I wouldn't, though.
It's just a post.

[SAMWolf]

Friday Morning Bump.

[Jen]

Very interesting article and magazine. Thanks for the ping.

[Valin]

Bump and bookmarked.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[Claud]

Some might even consider this
Post a poem.

LOL...I might even consider it more in the nature of post-structuralist performance art....

[Antoninus]

LOL...I might even consider it more in the nature of post-structuralist performance art....

Hold on a second while I coat myself in chocolate, talk about my privates, and eat a dead baby. Now that's what I call art!

[Antoninus]

Ping to Culture Warriors...

[Antoninus]

From an article posted on a previous thread:

At the Frankfort School, established in 1933 at Columbia University in New York City, Theodor Adorno, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse launched the program that would lead to the mainstreaming of cultural Marxism. Their assault on American values left Pro-American intellectuals in the dust scratching their heads wondering what had happened to the philosophy of the founders. Freedom, liberty, and morality, ideas that established the greatest society in history, have since been reduced to saloon talk on radio shows and websites.

Exactly what was the allure of the godless foursome? Why didn´t freedom advocates check them on the battlefield of ideas? The simple answer is that the Marxists offer sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

The reason they are so hard to combat, besides the fact that they offer sex and drugs, is that they don´t actually stand for a culture. The cultural Marxists actually represent an anti-Culture. They seek to tear down any notions of culture and replace them with…well…nothing. They stand for nothing and everything at the same time. This becomes apparent when trying to debate a cultural Marxist, and if you don´t believe me try it for yourself.

From Calling all Culture Warriors See post 77.

[ELS]

It sounds like a good endeavor. May God bless your efforts.

[Bernard Marx]

I was acquainted with Cleon Skousen at the time "The Naked Communist" was published. He was police chief in Salt Lake City.

Like most anti-Communists of the time (late 50s, early 60s) he was attacked in the media and made to look like an extremist maniac (thinking of Trent Lott, things haven't changed much, have they?)

I'll personally attest to the fact that Skousen at that time was rational, civil, intelligent, pleasant -- and dead right.

[serinde]

Thanks for the ping. I have ordered my copy, and am looking forward to getting it.

[Antoninus]

Thanks!

[Antoninus]

Like most anti-Communists of the time (late 50s, early 60s) he was attacked in the media and made to look like an extremist maniac (thinking of Trent Lott, things haven't changed much, have they?)

It's funny, even anti-communists today are made to look like idiots chasing will-o-wisps. "Don't you know that the Soviet Union fell 12 years ago?" Meanwhile, we now have marxist totalitarian maniacs like Chavez and Lula de Silva right there in South America.

[Antoninus]

I'll personally attest to the fact that Skousen at that time was rational, civil, intelligent, pleasant -- and dead right.

He was and is. History is showing him to be more right with each passing day. I'd love to get a copy of his book ... I wonder if my local public library would have it (ha, ha).

[Antoninus]

Local publishing bump!

[Antoninus]

Post-postmodernism bump...

[IronJack]

Request sent! Phenomenal effort, folks! It's time to shed some conservative light in the twilit halls of beaux artes. Or is that "bozo arts"?

[fatima]

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