Dear Folks,

 

I guess we can no-longer say that…”It Can’t Happen Here”...

Can we?

 

Do you agree that America has experienced a Cultural Revolution, beginning around 1979, which rivals the Chinese Cultural Revolution?

 

And, would Mr. Mao approve?

 

Certainly, there has been consolidation of power and wealth, like China never experienced, back in the good old days.  Would Mao, the ultimate fake-communist, approve of America’s revolutionary trajectory?

 

But, what is a Cultural Revolution without an entire OVERTURNING of the Culture, happening during a very short period of time…say two decades from 1980 to 2000…in America?

 

So, the Commies destroyed China?

So, what destroyed America?

 

What destroyed American Culture?

 

Was it Communism, or Socialism, or Books?

 

Probably, it was Hollywood, not to mention, these days, Bollywood?

 

Well, the East is no-longer Red?

 

But, what is America?

 

I still do not know, even though I once thought I did.

 

Do YOU know?

 

Best regards,

Gamma

 

Note: It's all about CULTURE, and NOT color....maybe

 

Note2:  Try as he might, Xi will NEVER be as great as Mao....

 

 

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Try as he might, Xi will NEVER be as great as Mao....

Mao Zedong is responsible for tens of millions of deaths, with estimates for the total varying significantly. The Great Chinese Famine caused by his policies resulted in an estimated 15–55 million deaths, and the Cultural Revolution and other purges caused millions more, though estimates for these events also vary. 

No question the US is on a major declining trajectory. Many factors. A crime lord president. Major corruption. Corporate over reach. The lobbies. Hollywood. Disney. Me too. The gender identity crisis. Women who are petrified to manifest their femininity. A  very fearful public. Bitterness. Nastiness. The list goes on. But number one? 

 

I consider social media to be the most destructive force in contemporary culture today. Children are growing up now in a world where they expect immediate response, gratification and notification. Their brains no longer have time to evolve; they must adapt to change in an instant, and the results are distressing. The difficulties of growing up have never been so public. Social technology provides a platform where things can run wild. Imagine the stress of high school – the competition for popularity, the pressure to fit in, the judgmental nature of social activities – at an accelerated pace. We try to protect our children from wandering off into the darkness on their own, and it turns out they are doing exactly that – online. When they get older and “ready,” we send them off to college, where they face more pressures. But social media has an infamous dark side and the more people share, the more serious this side becomes. As it turns out, living your life online has serious consequences for your self-esteem, your relationships, and your career prospects. 

 

And it is a strong indication of just how bent, warped and misguided contemporary culture and society is, that someone can be considered an idol or celebrity just because they have alot of followers on Tik tok, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. 

 

The real danger of social media is not that you might say the wrong thing to the wrong person. The real danger is the fact that one determined person with nothing else to do can find your name, your phone number, your address, your parents’ address, your third-cousin’s Twitter, your boss, your co-worker, your ex-lover, the ex-lover you briefly forgot about and use all this information to systematically tear your life apart piece by piece. But why would someone go through so much trouble to do that? Because it was probably not that hard. There’s a good chance your own web presence coupled with some inventive searches led them straight down the trail to destroying your social life, your relationships and your career all in one fell swoop.

 

I think good judgment and discrimination in regard to one's actions has gone out the window. Social media is at least partly to blame. When one considers the tiny amount of good and interesting information found on it, compared to the amount of poison, negativity, revenge culture, bragging, nonsense, and hate, it is fairly easy to conclude that Twitter, Instagram, and Tiktok are highly destructive forces within popular contemporary culture. They are extremely toxic.

 

 

They should not be compared. Millions killed in China is nothing like those who will die if they cannot pay for healthcare.

Go back to the 1960s and the Revenue Act of 1964, which cut top marginal individual taxes to 70 percent. Under Eisenhower they had been 92 percent. From this moment onwards it was a straight line down of tax cut tax cut tax cut. The entire sense of shared community experience and expectations was obliterated. It also heralded the financialization of the economy, instead of industrialization and making things it became solely how to profit by moving money around to the exclusion of 90 percent of the population. What followed was an ever increasing round of looking for new wage earners to keep salaries depressed. That was the effect of much of the civil rights acts, then women's rights, then open borders. It was always about enlarging the labor pool for the benefit of the few at the top. And so here we are 65 years later and the result is fragmentation, distrust, infinity H1Bs, inflation as a tool of balancing the budget, and a housing market in its decline in quality and affordability would even shock Upton Sinclair.