Culture of Terror
The Collapse of America
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Writing in 1927, Julien Benda termed his era “the age of the intellectual organization of political hatreds” marked by preaching “the cult of the strong State.” By intellectuals (he used the French word, clercs) Benda meant media, artists, academics and independent scholars and critics who together were responsible for what he termed, “the great betrayal...the divinizing of politics,” a development that has marked the 20th and now the 21st century in the West. “They preach that the State should be strong and [though they do not now say so explicitly] “contemptuous of justice.” These betrayals have led to “
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In Culture of Terror Eugene Narrett accomplishes a remarkable task: defining and identifying the roots of postmodernism in the scientific utopianism of the Enlightenment. Dr. Narrett explains and traces the increasing totalitarian core of this drive to control and "perfect" human beings to the media "distraction machine." Using core texts from political philosophy and literature, he follows the Romantic revolution in values and scientific utopianism, through Modernism and its suicidal, relativistic, power mad postscript, postmodernism. Using a broad palette of great writings from many disciplines he traces America's regression to nihilistic paganism directed by an oligarchy and a new, hi-tech feudalism that impoverishes and de-humanizes. In America, the 'flower' of the West, the contradictions and self-negation in this process are most pronounced and grotesque as shown by popular culture which he examines extensively. "Culture of Terror" is a unique tale of imperial identity theft playing out its logic in confessions of regret, expressive instrospection (psychology) and the exhibitionism of media spectacles that absorb and program everything in the disintegrating language of its its "distraction machine."
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Eugene Narrett is the author of five books on the cultural history of the West. He is a widely published essayist on culture and politics, from Art History and Fine Arts to Book & film Reviews and geopolitics. A distinguished teacher, he has learned about the totalitarian aspects of what is termed "liberalism" first hand as the change agents pursue their ravaging of culture and human decency.