(Following are excerpts of chapter 10 written by historian WilliamS.Lind for Dr. Ted Baehr’s and Pat Boone’s book “The Culture-wiseFamily: Upholding Christian Values in a Mass Media World”)
Sometimeduring the last half-century, someone stole our culture. Just 50 yearsago, in the 1950s, America was a great place. It was safe. It wasdecent. Children got good educations in the public schools. Evenblue-collar fathers brought home middle-class incomes so moms could stay home with the kids. Television shows reflected sound, traditional values.
Where did it all go? How did that America become the sleazy, decadentplace we live in today — so different that those who grew up before the’60s feel like it’s a foreign country? Did it just “happen”?
Itdidn’t just “happen”. In fact, a deliberate agenda was followed tosteal our culture and leave a new and very different one in its place.The story of how and why is one of the most important parts of ournation’s history — and it is a story almost no one knows. The peoplebehind it wanted it that way.Frankfurt School members decided that the key to destroying WesternEuropean culture was to cross Marx with Freud. They argued that just asworkers were oppressed under capitalism, everyone lived in a constantstate of psychological repression. They realized that psychologicalconditioning offered them a far more powerful tool than just philosophy.
Today, when Hollywood’s cultural Marxists want to “normalize”somethinglike homosexuality (thus “liberating” us from “repression”), they puton television show after television show where the only normal-seemingwhite male is a homosexual. Cultural Marxism makes powerful use oftools like radio, film and later television to psychologicallycondition the public. It is no accident that the entertainment industryis now cultural Marxism’s most powerful weapon. That is howpsychological conditioning works; people absorb the lessons the cultural Marxists want them to learn without even knowing they are being taught.
The Frankfurt School was well on the way to creating political correctness.Then suddenly, fate intervened. In 1933, Adolf Hitler and the NaziParty came to power in Germany. Since the Nazis hated Marxism, theFrankfurt School with its leading members decided to leave Germany andre-established in New York City with help from Columbia University in1934. Soon, its focus shifted from destroying traditional WesternEuropean culture in Germany to doing so in the United States. It wouldprove all too successful.