BATTLE MAP OF THE
AMERICAN CULTURAL WAR
TIMELINE AND COMMENTARIES @ $3.00
- FORMAT - PDF
- A TIMELINE OF 31 PAGES
- 17 COMMENTARIES.
THIS GENERATION...
“Commonly called “The Millenials.” Rebellion against
cultural forms, and an attempt to maintain existing values at all social and
technological levels frames the struggle of this generation. Huge
infrastructure investments in digital switching technology is the basis for
future data networks which will include Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites.
Worldwide economy and petroleum based lifestyles lead to
warfare and open “cultural warfare” domestically and internationally.”1
1 THE FOURTH TURNING, William Strauss and Neil Howe, Broadway Books,
1998, Pg. 135
COMMENTARIES INCLUDE
1985 –
Overview of The Unraveling - Culture Wars – “Hot button issues included abortion, gun control, music,
police violence, homosexuality, immigration, and censorship in two defining
polarities.”
1985 –
Catholic Media Coverage Criticism - “‘… during the first half of
2002, the 61 largest newspapers in California ran nearly 2,000 stories about
sexual abuse in Catholic institutions, mostly concerning past allegations.
During the same period, those newspapers ran fourstories about the federal
government's discovery of the much larger
- and ongoing - abuse scandal in public
schools.’”
1985 – CIA
Cocaine Smuggling – “Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in
response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods.
This view holds that the racial disparities in drug convictions and sentences,
as well as the rapid explosion of the prison population, reflect nothing more
than the government’s zealous – but benign – efforts to address rampant drug
crime in poor, minority neighborhoods. This view, while understandable given
the sensational media coverage in the 1980s and 1990s is simply wrong…”
1985 –
“Our enemies are internal” – “…drugs, guns, the widening gap between poor and elite, and
lots more competition for jobs.” A student from Nashville quoted by Gail
Sheehey
1985 – Vatican
Skeptical of American Media Handling Of Sex Abuse Scandal – “…they do think the reporting on it is uniquely
American, fueled by anti- Catholicism and shyster lawyers hustling to tap the
deep pockets of the church.”
1987 – Jules Pfeiffer
(b. 1929), “Truth Hurts”
– “A
description of one of Pfeiffer’s ‘everyman’ cartoons by Molly Ivins.”
1990 –
Context Clues, Angela Y. Davis – “What kind of society is this which
creates this hall of horrors where jail is allowed to turn to freedom and
freedom into jail? This is one of the many contradictions that you will
have to examine.”
1991 – Cult
Watchers– “[Originally named] Citizen's
Freedom Foundation was originally headquartered in Chicago,
Illinois, and collected information
on New Religious Movements. [It was renamed Cult Action Network.] By 1991, the
Cult Awareness Network had twenty-three chapters dedicated to monitoring two
hundred groups that it referred to as: "mind control cults."[10]
The CAN website was called a “flame” site.
1991 – Rodney
King, L.A. Riots – Four LA Police officers beat Rodney King. “A
witness, George Holliday, videotaped much of the beating from his balcony, and
sent the footage to local news station KTLA. The footage shows four officers surrounding King, several
of them striking him repeatedly, while other officers stood by. Parts of the
footage were aired around the world, and raised public concern about police
treatment of
minorities in the United States.”
1992 – “The
Battle For The Soul Of Our Country” – Pat Buchanan - “I am not here to talk surrender
terms, but to talk about how to fight and win the war for the soul of our
country.” [Multiculturalism is] “…an across the board assault on our
Angle-American heritage!”
1992 – Restore
American Greatness Through Moral Strength – Pat Robertson – Republican Convention Speech – “The
campaign before us is not just a campaign for an office, but for the destiny of
America.”
1993 Media
Sensationalism Driven By Profit Motive – “More colorfully, Nancy
E. Bernhard of Harvard Divinity School put it this way in 1993: “With or
without the reporter’s intent, such coverage reinforces mainstream norms about
religious and social behavior and creates the impression that all
nontraditional or exotic belief is lecherous, moronic or
illegal.”
1994 – The
Republican “Contract With America” – Newt Gingrich – Eight reforms and 10 bills - “During the crafting of the Contract, proposals
were limited to "60% issues", i.e. legislation that polling
showed garnered 60% support of the American people, intending for the Contract
to avoid promises on controversial and divisive matters like abortion
and school prayer.[1][3]”
1995 –
Religious Freedom Under Attack – “French Parliamentary Commission On Cults and Sects releases
a report naming hundreds of religious groups as purported “dangerous cults.”
The list was generated by former members and anti-cult groups. The list was
used for raids by SWAT teams, harassment and created a public atmosphere of
intolerance.”
1995 – The
Cult Of Violence, Vigilantes and Vengeance – Lt. Col. Dave Grossman – [After the
Oklahoma City Bombing] “ if we look into the mirror provided by the television
screen, the reflection we see is one of the nation regressing from a society of
law into a society of violence, vigilantes, and vengeance."
1995 – The Bell
Curve, a review by Lewis H. Lampham – “ The pseudoscientific speculation adds a few more brush
strokes to the standard portrait of black people… At long last and with a clear
conscience, the governing and possessing classes can comfort themselves with
the thought that poor people deserve what they get, that their misery is
nobody’s fault but their own.”
2000 –
Business Magazine Covers “The New Media Redefinition Of Heroism” – David
L. Brooks – “[Business
executives] are photographed [on magazine covers] looking like mellowing rock
stars, wearing expensive collarless linen shirts or multicolored sweaters and
rag-wool socks under funky expensive sandals.”
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