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It's a very different world now than when I was growing up. And the history textbooks reflect the changes.
Gone are the personages we were taught in the 60s. Important American heroes like Jim Bridger, Stephen Decatur & Kit Carson aren't even mentioned in kids textbooks anymore. The victim card has been played. The new heroes are victims: Ceasar Chavez, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. Harriet Tubman.
This new, post 60s way of thinking was a result of socialist upheavals. Not all socialist changes had negative results(civil rights, womens' rights, gay rights, animal rights, ecology movement), but all socialist upheavels were expolited, nay even financially sponsored by America's then enemy of the time, the Soviet Union. Who, incidently, did not themselves believe that the American way of life was a positive force of change for the globe. And who immediately rewrote their own history following the Czarist collapse.
All of this 'reeducation' of American thought occurred during wartime...and was the single biggest reason for America's loss of that war. But underlying those praiseworthy socaist ideals (equality) was the insidiousness of totalitarianism. As we now know, all Soviet and Chinese Marxist influenced/led governments worldwide were responsible for the uneccessary deaths of at least
100,000,000 of their own citizens. One hundred million. Gee, but they didn't get a museum of suffering victimhood, did they? Oh well...
Who took the blame for all of the American victimhood? Angry white males. And some WASPs did deserve to be put to shame, but to deny the WASP contribution to American history and the way of life is historical revisionism in the full Orwellian sense. How can that be good for any society?
It is, indeed, a different world from the 60s. Japan is rearming. That was held as a "never-again" maxim during the Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri. Are current European laws regarding holocaust revisionism(denial), which were also a "never ever" at the end of WWII really applicable today? These laws are seen from the middle east as pandering to a specific lobby. Would removing them today really ensure a virtual resurgence of facism for Europe's future? I think not. Most Europeans would agree. The lessons have been learned. It's time to move on.
The victim card, while beneficial in it's time, has worn out it's welcome.
Myself, I'm having rather a difficult time believing the American dream even exists anymore. Let's just say that I was taught from an early age to believe in it. I don't know if they are teaching that anymore in public schools. I suspect the import of it has been de-emphasized. Denigrated even.
And guess what? We are at war again and the socialist alliance is working perpendicular to historical American goals. There's a new ideology opposing us. In order to beat that way of thinking we need to drop the stale post 60s idealsim. A new paradigm is needed. New lessons have to be learned. The new opposing force must also be given a harsh lesson in the error of their ways. We must teach them.
Unless you truly believe that the American way of life & thought throughout our history has been a negative ifluence on the world. If you hate the American 'dream', then please move to parts other. And stop using electricity too.
I want to believe again. And I want you to want to believe in us again. Thus think of this measly poast as an attempt to close one era and make a bridge to a new, hopefully beneficial for most, era.
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BTW, I actually wrote this. I didn't paste it. You may read it as me not being my usual sarcastic(only funny at times) self. If you have read the whole thing Doctor Doom & sweetcell will each buy you a tipple at the next show.
