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When did the campaign to subvert America's children start?(Note: This is an open thread, but there is an Israel war thread just below this one.) When I was a child, my uncle invited my parents to bring the family to stay for a few days in one of his two beach houses at Playa del Rey, California. This was before Marina del Rey was built, but after oil was found on the strand in nearby Venice during the 1930s, leading to the building of oil wells, which come with some bad smells, etc. So the neighborhood had seen better days. The house he lived in was impressive and pleasant despite the deterioration of the neighborhood. Both houses might be considered mansions, though not large ones. Knowing my uncle, he probably got them at bargain prices, anticipating future re-development. The original development was built starting in 1921 in an area of sand dunes (rather than in the nearby wetlands) and attracted buyers like Cecil B. Demille. I don't know if anyone famous lived in the house where we stayed. Anyway, we got there late, having gotten lost in Venice. We passed spooky oil wells. The house where we were to stay would probably work for a made-for-TV Halloween movie -- lots of wood paneling, small servant's quarters and strange narrow hallways and stairs. And being near the airport, there would be lots of foggy days for moody beach filming. Odd how they build California airports in the foggiest spots possible. There were no lights in the neighborhood to speak of when we arrived, and there were hints that vagrants might have taken up residence in some of the houses. When I think of Venice, California, I think of Beatniks as well as the later phenomena of Muscle Beach and widespread homelessness. Come to think of it, the Beatniks' romantic view of vagrancy may have something to do with today's homeless epidemic in Venice. Miss Beatnik of 1959 contestants in Venice, California Anyway, Mark Judge has written a piece in which he recounts a night when a member of The Beat Generation started the campaign to subvert America's children as part of the larger culture war. I'm not sure it was THE night when the culture wars started, but it is definitely creepy: "We'll get you through your children!" The Podhoretz essay, called "My War With Allen Ginsberg," has stayed with me for years. I occasionally re-read it for its tremendous foresight, wisdom and power. It is a first-hand account of a night in America in which the modern culture war began. With elegant and at times very funny observations, Podhoretz predicted everything that would happen for the next 60 years: How we got to be a country awash in drug abuse, transgenderism (and the medical malpractice that comes with it), mental health problems, anti-Americanism and atheism. It's the genesis of our modern cultural and political nightmare. Allen Ginsberg was a member of NAMBLA???? We're still getting conflicting signals about whether the LGBTQ movement (Queer Theory and Transgenderism in particular) has anything to do with pedophilia. The conflict between Podhoretz and Ginsberg was the result of the young Podhoretz slamming Ginsberg and his fellow writers. In the 1950s Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and others formed a literary group that would become known as the Beat Generation. The Beats thought America was too conformist. They advocated drugs, sex, poetry, alternate spirituality, and long car trips. Their most famous member, Jack Kerouac, wrote a book about their experiences called On the Road -- a book Podhoretz panned. The Beats were hugely influential to the counterculture of the 1960s (despite the fact that Jack Kerouac turned conservative late in life and hated hippies, but that's another story). For young people it became cool to listen to jazz, do drugs, and aimlessly leave home without much of a plan. The Beat influence was still huge when I was in college in the 1980s. . . Well, Mark Judge can pick that night as the start of the culture wars, including the war against children, but like it says in the movie poster at the top of the post, EXPLODING FROM ALLEYWAYS AND IVORY TOWERS . . . Can you think of others before the Beat Generation who were trying to subvert the Children of America? How is the campaign to subvert America's children going now? "I don't usually do long threads, but this is important to understand. When you think "literacy," you think "the ability to read and write." When the educational establishment thinks "literacy," they think "political literacy." Would Paulo Freire's program for political literacy have been accepted in the USA without the prior influence of the Beatniks (and others)? Music Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend. This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.
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