Frank Wright
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And bear in mind, that comes from a thinker called Matthew Arnold, who wrote a book in 1863 called Culture and Anarchy.
And I'll finish with this, that he said that because we're going to liberalize the world and democratize it, but obviously we're going to subtract religion because we liberals don't believe in Christ.
We're going to retain the outward structure of the church and the armature, if you like, of our civilization.
But we're going to remove the supernatural and Christ and God himself from the center of that.
And he said we should replace it with culture.
or we'll have anarchy.
So from the 1860s, the liberals had this idea of standardizing the world beneath their own godless standards.
But they recognized that without the foundational Christianity of our civilization, there would be anarchy.
And so Matthew Arnold imagined that he would promote things like poetry and classical art and classical music.
But instead, you got like Taylor Swift and televised sports.
And then, of course, nowadays you get like the current thing craze where you all put on some crazy hat or kneel for an obvious criminal or something.
But these are all elements of the mass production of culture which generates mass belief and literally does drive people insane because it is fundamentally counter-reality.
This is a revolutionary ideology, and all revolutions are basically revolts against the natural order, the changeless order of being and reality created by God, of course.
And so what they do instead is they create this kind of make-believe reality for you to live in.
And so the final thing I'll say about this is a foundational figure in the creation of the liberal system was a man called Walter Lippmann.
And Walter Lippmann said that in order to rule these new democracies where all these awful ordinary people will have the vote, what we must do is create a pseudo-reality, his words.
And he said we should use mass communications to do this.
And when we can get people to believe that the advertisements and mass communication picture of the world is the real world, then we can change that picture at will, and that's how we'll rule them.
And that is the foundational moment of the political technique of the 20th century.
Oh, yes, and it has, and it is, because you can see how the refinement of that has taken place from the paper and cinema age through the radio and then the television and the internet age.
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