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When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
By: bernardpyron Date: February 3, 2019, 11:35 am
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When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Bernard Pyron
This is a big topic and important at the present time in
history.
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule
over
them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and
destroy
the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3: 12
"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
work
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife
stirred
up." I Kings 21: 25
Georg Lukács, 1885-1971, was one of the original Founders of the
Frankfurt School of Transformational Marxism. He understood
that Protestant Christianity, in its spiritual transformation of
the individual, and the Culture that Protestant Christianity
created, prevented Marxism from taking over Western Europe and
the United States. So Marxism must get rid of that Protestant
Christianity and that Culture it created.
Though Lukács himself did not develop a specific method for the
abolition of that Culture which grew out of the Northern
Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, Theodore Wiesengrund
Adorno, 1903-1969, with other Frankfurters in the U.S. did lay
the foundation for the Identity Politics now being used by
Marxists to combat that Western dominant culture from the
Renaissance-Reformation which Lukács had identified.
The Northern Renaissance was important for the development of
that Culture which Lukacs understood to be a major hinder to the
takeover of Western Europe and the U.S. by Marxism because that
Northern Renaissance created the scholarship which enabled the
Reformation to began in Northern Europe. For example,
Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536, was from Holland. Erasmus
created the Textus Receptus, which made the original Greek of
the New Testament again available to translate into the common
languages of Europe, including English in about 1526 by William
Tyndale. Before Erasmus created the Textus Receptus, the Bible
was only available to most people in the form of the Latin
Vulgate of Jerome.
See:
HTML http://newpol.org/content/frankfurt-school-and-jews
"Fortunately, Horkheimer and Adorno’s approach began to change
in 1939-1940, when they began to develop a vast research project
on anti-Semitism, ultimately sponsored by the American Jewish
Committee."
"Adorno and Horkheimer organized, as mentioned above, a vast
research project on anti-Semitism, which resulted in several
books published as a series, “Studies in Prejudice.” The best
known is The Authoritarian Personality (1948), written, in part,
by Adorno, which showed that anti-Semitism is intimately
associated with certain character structures, such as blind
submission to authority, violent aggressive attitude toward the
“other,” and rigid stereotypical thinking. Leo Löwenthal and
Norbert Guterman wrote the second book of the series, Prophets
of Deceit (1949), dealing with American anti-Semitic agitators
such as Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and a few others.
Curiously enough, there is hardly a mention, in this context, of
the most influential—by far!—American anti-Semite, namely Henry
Ford, author of The International Jew (1921), who not only had a
big impact in the United States, but whose book became a
favorite of a German fascist named Adolf Schickelgruber. "
Note that the "theory" which Adorno and Horkheimer created
around their interest in anti-semiticism looks a lot like a
theory within American Personality and Social Psychology. In
fact, in the fifties, this theory was accepted by many people
then working in American Personality and Social Psychology. At
that time one of the most referenced topics in the Social and
Personality Psychology peer review journals was the F Scale,
which Adorno and his associates used in heir paper and pencil
questionnaire study of anti-semiticism and the Authoritarian
Personality.
And in the 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, Adorno as
senior author does get into his original interest in the study
of anti-semiticism.
"The present inquiry into the nature of the potentially
fascistic
individual began with anti-Semitism in the focus of attention.
The authors, in common with most social
scientists, hold the
view that anti-Semitism is based more largely upon factors in
the subject and in his total situation than upon
actual
characteristics of Jews, and that one place to
look for
determinants of anti-Semitic opinions and attitudes is within
the
persons who express them.."
"And since from the start the
research was guided by the hypotheses stated above, it was
supposed (1) that anti-Semitism probably is not a specific or
isolated phenomenon but a part of a broader
ideological
framework, and (2) that an individual's susceptibility to this
ideology depends primarily upon his psychological needs. "
"The task of fascist propaganda, in other words,
is
rendered easier to the degree that antidemocratic
potentials
already exist in the great mass of people."
Although Adorno and other Frankfurters in the U.S. at the time
talked about "Critical Theory" and pretended their theory on the
cause of fascism and the Authoritarian Personality being
centered around anti-semiticism and rigidity was real social
science, what they were creating was more of a strategy for
political propaganda purposes to change the American Culture -
and, as it worked out, through the Universities.
"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the
heavenly family, the former must be destroyed (annihilated), in
theory
and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4
“The authoritarian family becomes the factory in which the
state’s
structure and ideology are molded.” Wilhelm Reich The Mass
Psychology of
Fascism.
“The conception of the ideal family situation for the child:
uncritical obedience to the father and elders, pressures
directed
unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of spontaneity and
emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values.” Theodore.
W.
Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality
“Psychoanalysis must treat religion as a neurosis.” Norman O.
Brown
Life Against Death
“God is conceived more directly after a parental image and thus
as a
source of support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing
authority.” Theodor W. Adorno The Authoritarian Personality
(1950)
Transformational Marxist Identity Politics makes certain
identities politically incorrect, and in doing so it divides the
people. The White Male becomes politically incorrect - in part
because in Transformational Marxism the White Male as Father and
ruler over the family is what causes the Authoritarian
Personality.
You might think that therefore the Mother as head of the family
would be acceptable to Identity Politics. But - think of the
current Leftist chant, "No borders, no wall, no USA at all."
What the Left or Marxists want is "no family at all."
During the time of the Counterculture many Hippies and others in
that Culture were taught to focus on sex, but in having many
different sex partners over relatively short periods of time,
like a year, what was happening was a diminishing of the
heterosexual relationship itself. Pornography on the Internet
can be seen as a part of Transformational Marxism, to diminish
the heterosexual relationship, which is the foundation of the
family.
Later, as homosexuality and lesbianism became more popular in
the Leftist culture, the heterosexual relationship itself began
to become politically incorrect among the Marxist Left.
Now there are consequences of all this rebellion against the
patriarchal structure of Christianity and the family.
See
HTML http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...#ixzz2SeHMQ7eV
"Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (M.D., Ph.D.) wrote a
well-received book titled Boys Adrift. The doctor tried to
answer the
question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and
indifference?.........."Something scary is happening to boys
today,"
Sax concluded. "From kindergarten to college, American boys are,
on
average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere
twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and
graduation
rates has widened dramatically."
The book's full title is Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving
the
Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young
Men.
Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: "video games,
teaching
methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation
of
masculinity."
It's worrisome that he seems to like them all. That might be a
clue
that he has not solved this mystery. Indeed, let's consider the
possibility that none of these theories is the deep answer we
want.
Let's start from scratch and consider the things we know for
sure.
First of all, critics have often noted that schools seem
organized
more for girls than for boys...........Consider that all school
activity revolves around two basic skills: reading and
arithmetic.
Students spend a lot of each day on these and must learn them in
order
to advance to any other subjects. Failure in these two subjects
virtually guarantees failure in all subjects, and in all of
life.
Perversely, our public schools, for more than 50 years, have
used
dysfunctional methods that virtually guarantee failure for the
ordinary boy."
Remember that Transformational Marxist educational psychologist
Benjamin Bloom was the guy who wrote the books that have been
used to
certify all American school teachers since about 1956. Some
blame the
problem of dumbing down the American generations born after 1945
on
"Government Schools." It is true that Transformational Marxism
got
its foot in the door and then marched fully in with a lot of
help from
the federal government. But it was that form of Marxism which
didn't
call itself Marxism that has helped to mess up the American
boys.
The article above also says "Dr. Sax speaks of masculinity being
undervalued. Maybe it's more directly a case of masculinity
hemmed in
and, as the school years pass, neutralized.
Finally. one can never escape the impression that there is
premeditation in all of this." My comment: Right, read Benjamin
Bloom.
There are other reasons for the boy problem. Russell Blaylock,
MD, a
former brain surgeon, has articles and youtube videos on how
vaccinations cause brain damage. Here is a 2004 article of
Blaylock's
with a huge number of peer review articles on brain damage from
over
vaccination.
HTML http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html
Blaylock says people born before 1945 are less depressed.
It is known that autism, a form of mental retardation, which has
been increasing greatly in the last few decades, affects boys
more than girls.
It may be that over-vaccination, which causes brain damage,
especially in some
people, may have a greater effect on the male population than on
girls.
And -there has been changes in the American diet, and addition
of more toxins,
which result in lower levels of testosterone in the younger
generations, in both males and females. But this lowering of
testosterone
in boys, especially teen age boys, is likely one factor in the
boy problem
that Dr.Sax wrote about. Testosterone not only has some benefits
for the heart,
but it also benefits the brain and brain functions like memory.
Studies show that attention, memory, and spatial ability are
cognitive
functions affected by testosterone levels in humans. And -
testosterone
levels in boys may be important for early learning."
Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and
former
philosophy professor who wrote the book, The War Against Boys:
How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (revised 2001).
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers
"She describes "gender feminism" as having "transcended the
liberalism" of early feminists. Instead of focusing on rights
for all,
gender feminists view society through the "sex/gender prism" and
focus
on recruiting women to join the "struggle against
patriarchy."[16] A
reviewer of Who Stole Feminism characterized gender feminism as
the
action of accenting the differences of genders in order to
create what
Sommers believes is privilege for women in academia, government,
industry, or the advancement of personal agendas"
"Sommers wrote in The Atlantic, about her own book The War
Against
Boys, that misguided school curriculum, based on flawed
research, is a
likely cause for many problems in education including the
falling
reading scores of lower-school boys. Sommers writes that there
is an
achievement gap between boys and girls in school, and that girls
in
some areas are achieving more than boys. She writes, "Growing
evidence
that the scales are tipped not against girls but against boys is
beginning to inspire a quiet revisionism. Some educators will
admit
that boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap."[19] Writing
for
The New York Times, Richard Bernstein wrote of The War Against
Boys,
"Observations like that lift Ms. Sommers's book from polemic to
entreaty. There is a cry in the wilderness quality to her book,
a
sense that certain simple truths have been lost sight of in the
smoky
quarrelsomeness of American life. "
My Comment: The "smoky quarrelsomeness of American life"
describes
the current obsession of American culture with the use of the
dialectic and suggests America is run by the dialectic mind.
#Post#: 3671--------------------------------------------------
Re: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctio
nal
By: guest8 Date: February 3, 2019, 11:07 pm
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[quote author=bernardpyron link=topic=345.msg3665#msg3665
date=1549215358]
When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctional
Bernard Pyron
This is a big topic and important at the present time in
history.
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule
over
them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and
destroy
the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3: 12
"But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
work
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife
stirred
up." I Kings 21: 25
Georg Lukács, 1885-1971, was one of the original Founders of the
Frankfurt School of Transformational Marxism. He understood
that Protestant Christianity, in its spiritual transformation of
the individual, and the Culture that Protestant Christianity
created, prevented Marxism from taking over Western Europe and
the United States. So Marxism must get rid of that Protestant
Christianity and that Culture it created.
Though Lukács himself did not develop a specific method for the
abolition of that Culture which grew out of the Northern
Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, Theodore Wiesengrund
Adorno, 1903-1969, with other Frankfurters in the U.S. did lay
the foundation for the Identity Politics now being used by
Marxists to combat that Western dominant culture from the
Renaissance-Reformation which Lukács had identified.
The Northern Renaissance was important for the development of
that Culture which Lukacs understood to be a major hinder to the
takeover of Western Europe and the U.S. by Marxism because that
Northern Renaissance created the scholarship which enabled the
Reformation to began in Northern Europe. For example,
Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536, was from Holland. Erasmus
created the Textus Receptus, which made the original Greek of
the New Testament again available to translate into the common
languages of Europe, including English in about 1526 by William
Tyndale. Before Erasmus created the Textus Receptus, the Bible
was only available to most people in the form of the Latin
Vulgate of Jerome.
See:
HTML http://newpol.org/content/frankfurt-school-and-jews
"Fortunately, Horkheimer and Adorno’s approach began to change
in 1939-1940, when they began to develop a vast research project
on anti-Semitism, ultimately sponsored by the American Jewish
Committee."
"Adorno and Horkheimer organized, as mentioned above, a vast
research project on anti-Semitism, which resulted in several
books published as a series, “Studies in Prejudice.” The best
known is The Authoritarian Personality (1948), written, in part,
by Adorno, which showed that anti-Semitism is intimately
associated with certain character structures, such as blind
submission to authority, violent aggressive attitude toward the
“other,” and rigid stereotypical thinking. Leo Löwenthal and
Norbert Guterman wrote the second book of the series, Prophets
of Deceit (1949), dealing with American anti-Semitic agitators
such as Father Coughlin, Gerald L. K. Smith, and a few others.
Curiously enough, there is hardly a mention, in this context, of
the most influential—by far!—American anti-Semite, namely Henry
Ford, author of The International Jew (1921), who not only had a
big impact in the United States, but whose book became a
favorite of a German fascist named Adolf Schickelgruber. "
Note that the "theory" which Adorno and Horkheimer created
around their interest in anti-semiticism looks a lot like a
theory within American Personality and Social Psychology. In
fact, in the fifties, this theory was accepted by many people
then working in American Personality and Social Psychology. At
that time one of the most referenced topics in the Social and
Personality Psychology peer review journals was the F Scale,
which Adorno and his associates used in heir paper and pencil
questionnaire study of anti-semiticism and the Authoritarian
Personality.
And in the 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, Adorno as
senior author does get into his original interest in the study
of anti-semiticism.
"The present inquiry into the nature of the potentially
fascistic
individual began with anti-Semitism in the focus of attention.
The authors, in common with most social
scientists, hold the
view that anti-Semitism is based more largely upon factors in
the subject and in his total situation than upon
actual
characteristics of Jews, and that one place to
look for
determinants of anti-Semitic opinions and attitudes is within
the
persons who express them.."
"And since from the start the
research was guided by the hypotheses stated above, it was
supposed (1) that anti-Semitism probably is not a specific or
isolated phenomenon but a part of a broader
ideological
framework, and (2) that an individual's susceptibility to this
ideology depends primarily upon his psychological needs. "
"The task of fascist propaganda, in other words,
is
rendered easier to the degree that antidemocratic
potentials
already exist in the great mass of people."
Although Adorno and other Frankfurters in the U.S. at the time
talked about "Critical Theory" and pretended their theory on the
cause of fascism and the Authoritarian Personality being
centered around anti-semiticism and rigidity was real social
science, what they were creating was more of a strategy for
political propaganda purposes to change the American Culture -
and, as it worked out, through the Universities.
"Once the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the
heavenly family, the former must be destroyed (annihilated), in
theory
and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4
“The authoritarian family becomes the factory in which the
state’s
structure and ideology are molded.” Wilhelm Reich The Mass
Psychology of
Fascism.
“The conception of the ideal family situation for the child:
uncritical obedience to the father and elders, pressures
directed
unilaterally from above to below, inhibition of spontaneity and
emphasis on conformity to externally imposed values.” Theodore.
W.
Adorno, The Authoritarian Personality
“Psychoanalysis must treat religion as a neurosis.” Norman O.
Brown
Life Against Death
“God is conceived more directly after a parental image and thus
as a
source of support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing
authority.” Theodor W. Adorno The Authoritarian Personality
(1950)
Transformational Marxist Identity Politics makes certain
identities politically incorrect, and in doing so it divides the
people. The White Male becomes politically incorrect - in part
because in Transformational Marxism the White Male as Father and
ruler over the family is what causes the Authoritarian
Personality.
You might think that therefore the Mother as head of the family
would be acceptable to Identity Politics. But - think of the
current Leftist chant, "No borders, no wall, no USA at all."
What the Left or Marxists want is "no family at all."
During the time of the Counterculture many Hippies and others in
that Culture were taught to focus on sex, but in having many
different sex partners over relatively short periods of time,
like a year, what was happening was a diminishing of the
heterosexual relationship itself. Pornography on the Internet
can be seen as a part of Transformational Marxism, to diminish
the heterosexual relationship, which is the foundation of the
family.
Later, as homosexuality and lesbianism became more popular in
the Leftist culture, the heterosexual relationship began to
became itself become politically incorrect among the Marxist
Left.
Now there are consequences of all this rebellion against the
patriarchal structure of Christianity and the family.
See
HTML http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/...#ixzz2SeHMQ7eV
"Four years ago, psychologist Leonard Sax (M.D., Ph.D.) wrote a
well-received book titled Boys Adrift. The doctor tried to
answer the
question, why have so many young males fallen into passivity and
indifference?.........."Something scary is happening to boys
today,"
Sax concluded. "From kindergarten to college, American boys are,
on
average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere
twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and
graduation
rates has widened dramatically."
The book's full title is Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving
the
Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young
Men.
Sax lists the five factors right on the cover: "video games,
teaching
methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, devaluation
of
masculinity."
It's worrisome that he seems to like them all. That might be a
clue
that he has not solved this mystery. Indeed, let's consider the
possibility that none of these theories is the deep answer we
want.
Let's start from scratch and consider the things we know for
sure.
First of all, critics have often noted that schools seem
organized
more for girls than for boys...........Consider that all school
activity revolves around two basic skills: reading and
arithmetic.
Students spend a lot of each day on these and must learn them in
order
to advance to any other subjects. Failure in these two subjects
virtually guarantees failure in all subjects, and in all of
life.
Perversely, our public schools, for more than 50 years, have
used
dysfunctional methods that virtually guarantee failure for the
ordinary boy."
Remember that Transformational Marxist educational psychologist
Benjamin Bloom was the guy who wrote the books that have been
used to
certify all American school teachers since about 1956. Some
blame the
problem of dumbing down the American generations born after 1945
on
"Government Schools." It is true that Transformational Marxism
got
its foot in the door and then marched fully in with a lot of
help from
the federal government. But it was that form of Marxism which
didn't
call itself Marxism that has helped to mess up the American
boys.
The article above also says "Dr. Sax speaks of masculinity being
undervalued. Maybe it's more directly a case of masculinity
hemmed in
and, as the school years pass, neutralized.
Finally. one can never escape the impression that there is
premeditation in all of this." My comment: Right, read Benjamin
Bloom.
There are other reasons for the boy problem. Russell Blaylock,
MD, a
former brain surgeon, has articles and youtube videos on how
vaccinations cause brain damage. Here is a 2004 article of
Blaylock's
with a huge number of peer review articles on brain damage from
over
vaccination.
HTML http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html
Blaylock says people born before 1945 are less depressed.
It is known that autism, a form of mental retardation, which has
been increasing greatly in the last few decades, affects boys
more than girls.
It may be that over-vaccination, which causes brain damage,
especially in some
people, may have a greater effect on the male population than on
girls.
And -there has been changes in the American diet, and addition
of more toxins,
which result in lower levels of testosterone in the younger
generations, in both males and females. But this lowering of
testosterone
in boys, especially teen age boys, is likely one factor in the
boy problem
that Dr.Sax wrote about. Testosterone not only has some benefits
for the heart,
but it also benefits the brain and brain functions like memory.
Studies show that attention, memory, and spatial ability are
cognitive
functions affected by testosterone levels in humans. And -
testosterone
levels in boys may be important for early learning."
Christina Hoff Sommers (born 1950) is an American author and
former
philosophy professor who wrote the book, The War Against Boys:
How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men (revised 2001).
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers
"She describes "gender feminism" as having "transcended the
liberalism" of early feminists. Instead of focusing on rights
for all,
gender feminists view society through the "sex/gender prism" and
focus
on recruiting women to join the "struggle against
patriarchy."[16] A
reviewer of Who Stole Feminism characterized gender feminism as
the
action of accenting the differences of genders in order to
create what
Sommers believes is privilege for women in academia, government,
industry, or the advancement of personal agendas"
"Sommers wrote in The Atlantic, about her own book The War
Against
Boys, that misguided school curriculum, based on flawed
research, is a
likely cause for many problems in education including the
falling
reading scores of lower-school boys. Sommers writes that there
is an
achievement gap between boys and girls in school, and that girls
in
some areas are achieving more than boys. She writes, "Growing
evidence
that the scales are tipped not against girls but against boys is
beginning to inspire a quiet revisionism. Some educators will
admit
that boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap."[19] Writing
for
The New York Times, Richard Bernstein wrote of The War Against
Boys,
"Observations like that lift Ms. Sommers's book from polemic to
entreaty. There is a cry in the wilderness quality to her book,
a
sense that certain simple truths have been lost sight of in the
smoky
quarrelsomeness of American life. "
My Comment: The "smoky quarrelsomeness of American life"
describes
the current obsession of American culture with the use of the
dialectic and suggests America is run by the dialectic mind.
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[shadow=blue,left]In the end, Apostasy of the Church (America)
away from Jesus Christ is continuing unto a point of no return.
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By: bernardpyron Date: February 4, 2019, 8:01 am
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A vigorous American Christianity, which emphasizes that
transformation of the individual in John 3: 1-6, Romans 12: 2,
II Corinthians 5: 17, Galatians 6: 15, Colossians 1: 27, and
Galatians 6: 15-16, could oppose and successfully defeat that
attack upon it by the Left under Marxism and the Culture derived
from Reformation Theology in the vigorous Christianity.
But that Reformation Theology has been weakened from within.
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By: bernardpyron Date: February 4, 2019, 8:36 am
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Above, I quoted Dr. Russell Blaylock as saying that people born
before 1945 are less depressed.
Why would people born before 1945 be less depressed?
There are generational differences between the older generation,
born before 1945 and the Baby Boomer Generation born after 1946,
that is, from 1946 to 1964, and the descendants of the Baby
Boomers.
One factor that Dr. Blaylock mentioned is the lowering of
testosterone levels in the younger generations.
But in addition to the toxins in the food, air and water, and
the estrogen mimickers in the food the Culture in the U.S. now
works against masculinity.
Both the toxins and estrogen mimickers on the one hand and the
Leftist Culture on the other hand could be in part responsible
for the higher levels of depression in the younger generations,
especially in the males.
When was Dr. Blaylock born? Wikipedia says Dr Blaylock was born
November 15, 1945. He just barely made it before the Baby
Boomer Generation began.
Here is a video by Dr. Blaylock:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4HCKhAlpEQ
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Re: When The Father Is Overthrown and the Boys Become Dysfunctio
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By: bernardpyron Date: February 5, 2019, 3:18 pm
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I first came across the studies in American Personality and
Social Psychology on the F Scale, associated with
Transformational Marxist Theodore W. Adorno and the 1950 book,
The Authoritarian Personality in the late fifties and early
sixties. The topic of F Scale Studies was popular in social
psychology at that time.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-scale_(personality_test)
"The California F-scale is a 1947 personality test, designed by
Theodor W. Adorno and others to measure the authoritarian
personality.[1] The "F" stands for "fascist". The F-scale
measures responses on several different components of
authoritarianism, such as conventionalism, authoritarian
aggression, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy,
power and "toughness," destructiveness and cynicism,
projectivity, and sex.["
HTML https://acpress.amherst.edu/books/riseoftrump/chapter/the-study-of-authoritarianism/
"From the observation that anti-Semites were also predisposed
toward intolerance to others, the authors of The Authoritarian
Personality hypothesized that the systemic prejudice observed in
some individuals could be measured by a series of questions
probing nine distinct, covarying traits. Answers to these
questions could be summed and arrayed across a scale—what Adorno
and his colleagues called the F-scale, in which F stands for
fascism.[5] The psychological dimension estimated by the F-scale
was then dubbed the authoritarian personality, and became the
name of what quickly assumed status as a groundbreaking book."
"The scientifically unfalsifiable basis of The Authoritarian
Personality, faulty design of F-scale questions that created
answer bias through acquiescent responses, and the
multidimensional reality of the F-scale’s intended
unidimensional output, all led to withering criticism of The
Authoritarian Personality’s methodology.[6] It also led to new
attempts to measure authoritarianism."
Psychologist Milton Rokeach, in his 1960 book, The Open and
Closed Mind, was highly critical of the methodology of the
original Marxist F Scale researchers because they only focused
upon Right Wing or Conservative Authoritarianism and not at all
upon Left Wing Authoritarianism. Rokeach offered his Dogmatism
Scale, another paper and pencil questionnaire which tired to
measure both Left Wing and Right Wing Dogmatism or
Authoritarianism.
But is was my introduction to the work of Dean Gotcher in about
2004 to 2010 when I was in two Christian Yahoo Groups, who were
interested in the ideas of Gotcher which gave me a much better
insight into the work of the Frankfurt School of
Transformational Marxism in the American universities.
See:
HTML https://www.timesexaminer.com/community/2685-dean-gotcher-speaks-on-destruction-of-the-family-and-indoctrination-of-youth
"Dean Gotcher, a Christian expert in education and psychology,
spoke on Thursday, June 9 at the First Presbyterian Church in
Columbia about how children are being indoctrinated with secular
values in the public school system and society, while parental
authority is simultaneously being destroyed. Times Examiner
readers know that America is on the verge of destruction, and
although we may not understand why, Gotcher documents that we
have been infiltrated, and he connects the dots by naming the
perpetrators."
"Gotcher said that the modern school system is based upon
groupthink, and sending your child to public school will result
in the group figuratively killing your child unless he conforms.
Eventually the child will come home from school angry and
rebellious towards the parents. Destroying individualism and
promoting politically-correct groupthink means that the rare
“negative” individuals who speak the truth, e.g. whistleblowers,
politicians, preachers, etc. are no longer welcome in society."
"Marx said that the earthly family must be destroyed, and
Satan’s goal is to destroy the husband-wife relationship,
because socialism is a society without parents. Satan’s New
World Order cannot exist until the authority of the father in
the family and our Father in Heaven is destroyed. The NWO plan
is for children to rule and for Big Brother to be the father.
Gotcher said that America got rid of God in the fifties and that
now He considers us a bastard nation and we are no longer His
children. Unfortunately, American churches have also succumbed
to the consensus philosophy in an effort to expand their
membership rolls and fellowship, while these principles have
even infiltrated home school teaching materials. America now
stands unprotected, as a nation without a conscience will yield
to global government. We now see how the Transformation
Marxists have destroyed America from within, like a homeowner
who suddenly discovered that his house has been destroyed by
termites, which ate away at the inside of the wood for years
unnoticed, such that his house is now only a weak,
disintegrating shell."
"Gotcher says that people come to many churches now to worship
themselves, not God. The emphasis is on the self and attaining
one’s desires. Instead, Gotcher says that Christianity is about
seeking and doing God’s will, and this pursuit of satisfying
personal desires goes back to the Garden of Eden when Eve
disobeyed God’s commandment not to eat the fruit of the Tree of
Knowledge."
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By: patrick jane Date: August 28, 2020, 3:16 pm
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good thread
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By: patrick jane Date: October 29, 2020, 1:36 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=345.msg16749#msg16749
date=1598645816]
good thread
[/quote]Bunny Bread
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