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Land of the Hypocritical From the "Propaganda'r'Us" department James Hunter, in his lecture "To Change the World" talks about how cultural changes need the support of elites to become mainstream. Just like Jesus needed Emperor Constantin to spread Christianity and Martin Luther needed Frederick the Wise, almost every cultural change needs its inventor and its supporters. The inventor may be anybody (Hunter claims there have been only about two thousand of them throughout history), but the supporters must come from the elites. We can observe one such change right now, as the Land of the Free is slowly transforming into the Land of the Hypocritical. As always, such a change begins with the elites, in this case all the way on the top. It doesn't matter whether hypocrisy becomes the official policy of the White house (hunt for leaked documents vs. intentional leaks) or the opposition, the sad truth is that this has become the norm. Hypocrisy didn't remain in Washington D.C., though. Instead, it percolated down, to educators. Take, for example, the case of a North Kentucky University professor who destroyed a display of a group she didn't agree with. She claimed to have exercised her right to free speech by doing this. Or, as the new hypocrisy slogan goes, free speech means you can shut down others.
But why stop there? Cultural change is not complete until it invades the minds of our future politicians, business and community leaders, artists and workers: our students. Recently, Michelle Malkin has posted the contact information of several students who protested against military recruiting. This information was taken from the students' |
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