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Cultural Amnesia and American Survival
American Thinker.com ^ | October 18, 2020 | Eileen F. Toplansky

Posted on 10/18/2020 11:03:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

Clive James's 2007 book titled Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts is a collection of artists and thinkers. They are largely concerned with responses to "threats against freedom, mostly in the 20th century."

As I leaf through it, I am astonished at the echoes of my own qualms as this country stands on the precipice of either remaining free or not. I see Democrats and leftists invoking Nazism to describe conservatives in America, and I am reminded of Jean-François Revel's words that "one insults the memory of the victims of Nazism if one uses them to bury the memory of the victims of communism." As leftists carelessly invoke Nazis to label "deplorables," they totally disregard the evil of communism.

Instead, the left and Democrats work assiduously to transform America into a socialist/communist country notwithstanding the millions who perished in communist countries and who continue to suffer even today. It is vital to recall that in only ten years, Venezuela was irrevocably destroyed by socialism. Yet Venezuela was once richer than China and Japan, and its currency was second only to the United States. Moreover, Venezuela had an excellent health system. No longer!

Moreover, Khmer Rouge (1975–1979) torturers had Western apologists in their corner who patently ignored the hideous torture, and as a result, "of 17,000 people who were interrogated in the S-21 camp in Phnom Penh, 16,994 died in agony."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cambodia; culture; history; khmerrouge

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