Regarding the "conspiracy theory" of leftists and popular culture
I often rage against leftists constantly trying to shove their agenda down our throats in tv, movies, etc. This is often met with a well meaning soul telling me that I'm imagining things. "Everything isn't a conspiracy!" I try to explain that leftist academia indoctrinates students into believing it's their duty to convert culture, "for progress". (This applies to journalism and art as well as well as entertainment.) I explain that they are trained to believe it isn't quality if it isn't pushing "progress". Naturally they think I'm making it all up. Here are some basics. Don't believe me. Research for yourself.
"While modernist critical theory (as described above) concerns itself with 'forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system,' postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems'"
"In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, which was developed in Germany in the 1930s. Frankfurt theorists drew on the critical methods of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
"Popular culture studies is the academic discipline studying popular culture from a critical theory perspective."
"Conceptual barriers between so-called high and low culture have broken down, accompanying an explosion in scholarly interest in popular culture, which encompasses such diverse media as comic books, television, and the Internet."
"Still, there may be ways to wage revolt in an age of mass media. One way could be to introduce small gradual changes in products otherwise conforming to the requirements of a dominant ideology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture_studies
"The critique of capitalism turned into a critique of Western civilization as a whole. Indeed, the Dialectic of Enlightenment uses the Odyssey as a paradigm for the analysis of bourgeois consciousness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Early_influences
Progressivism comes from that school. It is all Marxism. In their eyes every story, or piece of art, or item of journalism should be built to cause "progress". What is "progress"? Everything considered Western or traditional is considered bad, and must be dismantled. It isn't an accident. It's how the writers and journalists and artists are being taught. It isn't a conspiracy theory. It's well documented if it's looked for. Don't believe me. Research. The leftist cancer must be confronted.
The left has to be exposed, confronted, and shunned.
"While modernist critical theory (as described above) concerns itself with 'forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system,' postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems'"
"In philosophy, the term critical theory describes the neo-Marxist philosophy of the Frankfurt School, which was developed in Germany in the 1930s. Frankfurt theorists drew on the critical methods of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory
"Popular culture studies is the academic discipline studying popular culture from a critical theory perspective."
"Conceptual barriers between so-called high and low culture have broken down, accompanying an explosion in scholarly interest in popular culture, which encompasses such diverse media as comic books, television, and the Internet."
"Still, there may be ways to wage revolt in an age of mass media. One way could be to introduce small gradual changes in products otherwise conforming to the requirements of a dominant ideology."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_culture_studies
"The critique of capitalism turned into a critique of Western civilization as a whole. Indeed, the Dialectic of Enlightenment uses the Odyssey as a paradigm for the analysis of bourgeois consciousness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Early_influences
Progressivism comes from that school. It is all Marxism. In their eyes every story, or piece of art, or item of journalism should be built to cause "progress". What is "progress"? Everything considered Western or traditional is considered bad, and must be dismantled. It isn't an accident. It's how the writers and journalists and artists are being taught. It isn't a conspiracy theory. It's well documented if it's looked for. Don't believe me. Research. The leftist cancer must be confronted.
The left has to be exposed, confronted, and shunned.