However this book is not merely about history and activism, it is about truth. History is supposed to be about truth, isn’t it? And activism is supposed to be about truth being brought into reality, is it not? As Mahatma Ghandi phrased it, satyagraha — the power of truth. Satyagraha has been defined as holding firmly to truth or “truth force.” Using strength in numbers and placing oneself, nonviolently, in front of evil is the power of truth, satyagraha. So this book is about truth and how different generations have approached it and what factors, for example, recreational drugs, have contributed to the way they would apprehend it. Yet the real truth, as in the quest for truth? It starts with oneself. Being no different myself, I will tell you in the next chapter how it is that I began to see the cracks in America’s mesmerizing Matrix of misinformation, as long ago as 1969. PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 30

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 30 …Roe Vs. Wade, in June of 2022, and the massive national pushback and protests rising up against it, since. Meanwhile the media exaggerates every MAGA and Tea Party twitch involving handfuls or at the most hundreds of folks and broadcasts far and wide every trivial pronouncement coming from their gang of cartoonish Republican and Trumpian figures. Meanwhile Fox News and the mainstream media following it portray every little wiggle of liberal thought or action into insane reams of misunderstanding broadcast to the public, infecting American MAGAt minds; while billionaire-supporting pundits and conservative leaning commentators spouting insanity and gibberish `— Chris Christie, Rick Santorum, Paul Ryan, Megan McCain, for example — are given equal or greater footing than rational talk on even moderate platforms like CNN and MSNBC. Meanwhile, the corporate and filthy rich Controllers continue to pour guns into the streets and classrooms, demoralizing America, keeping it ripe for a fascist coup and the installation of a puppet government beholden to Russia’s Putin. So yes, we are still fighting this Culture War. For not only did it never go away, not only has our side not been heard, not only has the other side pounded our positions into rubble; and shouted down, ridiculed, slandered, and misconstrued our points to their own malevolent ends, but ... We ain’t won yet!

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This 60s-70s Culture War is as much here as two-hundred-thousand people in Wisconsin — at one point, other demonstrations had similar attendance — were there to protest union suppression, in February through June of 2011; although the media ignored and dismissed these powerful turnouts in keeping with their insidious obedience to the wealthy elites. This 60s-70s Culture War is as much there as that we were in 2011 surfing the tsunami of a worldwide Occupy movement addressing all the issues of this Culture War, Class War. This 60s-70s Culture War is as much there as the massive Women’s March in Washington in 2017, whose record-breaking turnout marked the beginning of the resistance after Trump’s inauguration. This 60s-70s Culture War is as much there as the months-long protests against the White racism fueling police departments throughout the country after the George Floyd execution by police, seen by billions of people via the internet. This 60s-70s Culture War is as much there as the January 6th attempted coup in 2021 and its resulting ongoing battle in the press and the streets, as the details of this in-plain-sight treason against America is revealed. This 60s-70s Culture War is as much there as the packing of the Supreme Court thru illegal means, which led to the overturning of… 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 29

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 29 …building and demanded the Dean appear and answer to the charges and respond about the documents, as a condition of our leaving the building. The Dean showed up and, standing on the steps of the building, he sheepishly mealy-mouthed his way through his responses to our evidence. He never denied it. Afterward, some students chipped in (what little they could) to pay for some of these fired professors to continue teaching the next semester. We could not use any facilities; we sat on the grass, outside. Of course, we could not afford to continue to pay our professors out of our own pockets; nor could the profs get by on the $1 — $25 voluntary donations! The result was that the Sixties Generation was the last educated generation. The result was that free-thinking generations would no longer be. They would not be encouraged; they would not be fostered; they would not be tolerated; they would not be allowed. People like to dismiss efforts such as mine and those of my cohorts at this time as trying to dredge up the battles of the Sixties, to relive or redo the past. This ignores the fact that this battle — this Culture War of the Seventies — has not gone away at all but is simply being ignored ... and consciously dismissed.

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The Vietnam War protests brought the suppression/repression of university minds onto the agenda of alumni and the wealthy elite, who were acting to negate such protests and pushback from the campuses to the designs of the filthy rich Controllers. They actually fired professors on my campus, not because they were radical or speaking out against the war, but because they were cutting back departments that had anything to do with the humanities — even the social sciences, religious studies!!! ... anything that involved encouraging students to be independent thinkers or to learn anything different from the elementary and secondary school propaganda they had been taught before. Students at my college ... Franklin and Marshal College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ... occupied the Administration building and found the documents — the letters from wealthy benefactors and alumni insisting on this change or they would stop their funding. This was a concerted effort by the wealthy elite that hit all the liberal arts institutions/ universities in America at the exact same time — the spring and summer of 1971. We gathered in front of the Administration… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 28

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 28 We stormed the administration building and found the documents — the letters from wealthy benefactors and alumni In May of 1971, a year after the Kent State murders of protesters and while this restructuring of American higher education was going on full tilt, we stormed the Administration building at my college of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. We found the documents — the letters from wealthy benefactors and alumni demanding a conservative turn be made in higher education. I say this today, the 6th of July 2022, while the news all over Twitter is of the fact that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, a Republican, has passed a law requiring students and faculty of all Florida universities to report their political beliefs yearly. They are being required to fill out a survey questioning them about their views; and if the university does not have a sufficiently conservative-leaning faculty and students, its funding from the state of Florida will be dropped. I mean, as they say, “you can’t make this shit up.” This is how far we have seen the tendency I am reporting, of the government taking over people’s minds, having happened beginning in 1971, is now being done in full view. However, back in 1970 and 1971, the alumni’s maneuvering behind the scenes to redirect the minds of university students and faculty was visible in its effects only, at first.

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Liberal arts ideals came directly out of the Enlightenment and Renaissance ideals of a well-rounded, diversely educated, and broadly knowledgeable individual and citizen. It was wisely considered such widely knowledgeable and broadly thinking leaders would benefit society in the wisdom, social consciousness, and moral conscience, indeed, selflessness and social service ideals that would result from that kind of exposure to varying viewpoints and approaches to truth. However, the Vietnam War had seen increasingly larger degrees of complaint, criticism, resistance, and defiance to its pursuit from these liberal arts campuses. I was on campus and was part of it. I also saw how the campuses were purged of the liberal thinkers — professors were fired, departments of philosophy, religious studies, history, and the other liberal arts were cut back, often to be eliminated entirely. It had become clear to the people at the top that they could better manipulate the masses without free thinkers in the way. They did not want smart people noticing, that’s for sure. 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 27

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 27 Enlightenment Overthrown (No Smarts for YOU!) In this context at no time was there an opening for the kind of rational or thoughtful, peaceful and considered, pursuit of truth, insight, or enlightenment that had characterized the eras that had actually led to the birth of America and its system of democracy, freedoms, and rights. By this I mean that since 1973, there was little room in America for any of the elements that characterized the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason or Rationalism, or the Age of Enlightenment — whose adherents and tenets spawned the American experiment. Can’t have liberal arts, it’s got the word “liberal” in it Indeed, I personally observed the downfall of the ideal of education in the liberal arts. Since the birth of America, a liberal arts college education had been regarded as a preeminent basis for further education and for life and career in general for those who would be among the educated and eventually the leaders and decision-makers of society.

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With most powers and most institutions, including education and publishing, orchestrated to the ends of a mighty few, there existed a pervasive — however very slick and clever — propaganda and cover-up apparatus constantly at work to fill or bend the minds of Americans along lines not in their interests, but rather those of these hidden powers with their corporate and political fronts. So pervasive and overwhelming was this effort in the United States at mind control and misinformation that it mirrored that of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Since such U.S. mind control going back to the 1950s provided no comfort, motivating people through the strategic use of terror and the incitement to hatred, it left that aspect wanting. Many people ... pushed to desperation and irrationality because of the continual terror and hatred campaigns ... ran to traditional religions or clung feverishly to any one of the many alternatives offering easy one-stop full-service truth — whether evangelical, political, ideological, or traditional. PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 26

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 26 Obama wasn’t, however. Indeed, in his memoirs, Barrack Obama delves deeply into whether he had been “too timid” during his terms. For Obama did not release to the public the intelligence community’s discovery of the interference in our election by Russia. Hence, Trump “won” and we were doomed to repeat it all — all those horrible years of incompetence, criminality, corruption, grifting, and thieving by the Filthy Rich of all below them, under the W — with a Trump presidency. The Donald took over the presidency in what should have been an easy win for Democrats in 2016, as it was thought it would be. The face of mine enemy, 1984 However, before those more recent events and over the course of those decades since 1970, Americans saw essentially the rise of a one-party government. Corresponding to that, we witnessed a consolidation of the mass media and its subservience, along with the government’s, to that same small group of people and powers, aligned with the huge corporations and serving their interests for profits and for enrichment of the already filthy rich.

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Biden took over after only four years of a Republican, Trump, trashing the Constitution, human rights, and human lives. That is what amounts to the progress in awareness between 2009 and 2020. Only four years were allotted this time by the powers-that-be for a Republican to destroy so much of what Democrats accomplish beforehand. Am I being sarcastic? Well, yeah. We will soon see how Barrack Obama was himself, with his “timidity,” the cause of that ascension by Trump in several crucial ways. This culpability begins with the fact Democrat Barrack Obama and his Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, declined to take up investigations of the crimes the W committed in office and continues right up to the time just before the presidential election of 2016. What happened at that time, in 2016, was that the intelligence services of the U.S. informed Obama that Russians were interfering in the 2016 presidential election. Obama sat on that information, rather than using it to fight back against such foreign interference in our elections by publicly disclosing it. If Obama had been forthcoming at the time this was uncovered, just prior to the presidential election of 2016, it would undoubtedly have made more than the small difference that was needed for Hillary Clinton to win the electoral college as well as the popular vote. 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 25

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 25 …the debacle of the impeachment attempt on Clinton. This overwhelming evidence against Republicans and W. Bush — stimulated by the discovery that Americans had been lied to by W. Bush’s administration to take us into war with Iraq — finally resulted in the cracks in the Matrix, or web of Big Lies built up over nearly fifty years. It took all that, so that finally an authentic man, a man not of the powerful elite, could win the Presidency handily. That man would, of course, be Barack Obama. Afterward, however, after Obama’s eight years as president, we saw a repeat of history with the installation into the presidency of Donald J. Trump. We will soon look into why, indeed, history could not help but repeat. Indeed, Trump was W. Bush 2.0. Trump’s corruption and illegality ignored the Constitution of the United States and were more severe and consequential, even, than George W. Bush’s. Yet the increasing progressiveness of the American electorate — overall, despite seldom being reflected in government policy — would make it that history would repeat, again, and would elect another Democrat, after Trump, to clean up the mess of another corrupt Republican. This of course occurred with the election of Barrack Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, to the presidency in 2020.

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You might say that whereas Eisenhower, along with the majority of Americans, would view a dystopian military-industrial society as a thing to be avoided at all costs, the wealthy elites after Eisenhower — as evidenced by the Republicans acting on their behalf in government — would act as to seem they were using the books, 1984 and Brave New World, as roadmaps and models of the world they’d like to create. Yet at a certain point, in 2008, with year after year throwing up W. Bush scandals, corruptions, misgovernment, several presidential elections stolen by Republicans, an unnecessary war, runaway deficits, and most significantly, right from the start, another massive transfer of wealth upward to benefit that small elite and increase their power; Americans were finally beginning to open their eyes to the ways they had been lied to, used, and robbed by the rich and powerful. All that governmental mismanagement, scandal, and oppression under the W played out on the media nightly, year after year, with no recourse even for impeachment of W. Bush because of an ill-timed agreement between the parties about impeachment that had come out of PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 24

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 24 …murder, to draw down troops in Vietnam. Well, not coincidentally almost immediately after JFK’s killing, Lyndon B. Johnson — who succeeded Kennedy as president — escalated the Vietnam War and the funding for it. America had its first coup, its first massive cover-up and Big Lie. Republicans would take over soon enough and over the next forty- six years would hold onto Executive Power for all but seventeen years, including Johnson’s five years. Of note is the fact that Democrats would win the popular vote in three out of the last six elections — Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton won the popular vote — and be denied the presidency because of the electoral college. This trend of popularity for Democrats thus shows increasing progressive enthusiasm over time laid alongside a concerted effort by the powers-that-be, the moneyed interests, to keep that progressive fervor from manifesting in public policy. During this time, the tendencies that began in the Fifties — involving the gathering of power into fewer and fewer hands, and the use of that power to influence the beliefs, ideals, and even psychology of the masses — increased and became more severe, pervasive, and threatening, up to the point of the outright lunacy and obvious deceptions and manipulations evident under George W. Bush; and later, even more maniacally, under Donald J. Trump.

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At any rate, these failures of the Warren Commission would be brought to our awareness over the years; the JFK murder became a source of many conspiracy theories. Yet much evidence was uncovered that contradicted the Warren Commission’s conclusions and pointed to the existence of several gunmen, with Lee Harvey Oswald being the fall guy. This would make Oswald the patsy whose murder by Jack Ruby only two days after Oswald’s arrest would ensure his actual story would never be told. Indeed, the movie, JFK, which came out in 1991, directed by Oliver Stone, gathered this evidence together and laid a good foundation for overthrowing the Warren Commission’s findings in the public’s mind. In any event, at the time, when JFK was assassinated, the floor fell out from beneath aspiring Americans. It left them feeling empty, directionless, and therefore vulnerable. Carol Lemieux expressed this malaise perfectly in her tweet of 17 August 2022 commenting on this point. She writes, “JFK’s assassination left people feeling powerless. If a President could be assassinated, no one is safe. When the cover-up succeeded, we knew we had no voice. We knew the truth would probably never be revealed. This was the new America.”2 Remember back to what I said a couple pages back on the military- industrial complex not being happy with JFK’s plans, just before his… 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 23

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 23 …as full of holes as the two victims, it turns out. Indeed, at least as many holes as the single-bullet theory — the brainchild of Arlen Specter, before he became a Republican Senator for Pennsylvania — would have, considering the theory involves up to seven entry/exit wounds in both men. From one bullet. This “magic bullet theory,” as it was called, would allow the Commission to conclude there had been only one gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. This fantastical theory allowed the Warren Commission to wrap up work without further investigation. Subsequently, other types of investigations produced the evidence that would lead to the History channels conclusion that it was the work of the Mafia. Thus, the Warren Commission was a precursor to the coverups that would later come about over other Republican scandals — Ronald Reagan’s Contragate; H. W. Bush’s Savings and Loan Scandal (S & L Scandal); W. Bush’s many scandals, most importantly lying to get the U.S. into the Iraq War; and of course the ongoing efforts of the conservative establishment in Washington, D.C., and the media, to minimize Donald Trump’s many scandals and treasonous acts by “normalizing” them.

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There was an astounding era of unity and enthusiasm during the Kennedy years, where corporate culture was subsumed under lofty ideals, which included both technological advance — and thus harnessed corporate energy in a positive direction — and social and intercultural advance, as for example with the Peace Corps. Fragmentation and anomie were forgotten as America believed it was involved in higher causes emanating out of the times that seemed powerful enough to propel everyone into the future with all the fragmentation following and somehow working itself out eventually. The dream is over President John F. Kennedy however was murdered, arguably by the Mafia — as History.com would have it — but either in collusion with or under pressure from powers aligned with that military-industrial complex of which Eisenhower spoke. The Commission that was formed to investigate the Kennedy assassination, the Warren Commission, came up with a ludicrous explanation of how the murder happened. They claimed a “magic bullet” — one bullet — had passed through Kennedy’s neck, gone into John Connally’s chest, then continued through his right wrist and ended up embedded in his left thigh. The conclusions of the Commission were PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 22

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 22 …other. You might say Americans’ minds were under siege from both the Right, with its misinformation, and the Left, with its new discoveries and new facts coming to light in the sciences. One was forced to make a choice between the hatred and violence of traditional society and a new one based on science and the multiculturalism coming out of the humanities and social sciences. This division was the earliest schizoid splitting of society’s mind that would become the Culture War we saw ever after and till today. A lot of it, as we see clearly now, comes down to whether you believe the fantasies of traditional religion, which itself is a cover for the desires of the wealthy elites, or you believe science. Back in the Fifties, however, in reaction to the untruths coming from the political sector — with its Cold War rhetoric and propaganda — and the sciences’, with its truth undermining traditional beliefs about family, religion, and the military, many suffered through or clung to traditional ways. This would be true specially of the elderly. Many, also, ignored the assaults on the credibility of these institutions over time.

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There may be much more to this warning to the nation than had previously been brought out. For coming into office right after Eisenhower we had John F. Kennedy, a Democrat. With his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, as Attorney General, JFK was anything but “timid.” They went after organized crime, and no doubt ruffled the feathers of the military-industrial complex as history records that prior to JFK’s assassination he had come to the conclusion that the United States needed to withdraw from or dial back substantially its involvement in Vietnam. The hidden powers of America, behind that military-industiral complex, would not be keen on these and other moves by the Kennedys. And we see the result of their bucking that complex of which Eisenhower spoke in the event transpiring on the 22nd of November 1963 in Dallas, Texas. This complex would then complete their assassination assignments for the Kennedys on 6 June 1968 when the younger brother would also be taken out. “Resistance is futile” Regardless, at the time, by the end of the Fifties, Americans were caught between the opposing evils of confusion and anomie, on one side, and being assimilated by corporate culture (“resistance is futile”), on the… 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 21

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 21 …on the “undue influence” of certain sectors of society over the rest of us was, after all, the summary statement, culminating viewpoint, of his eight years. Also, if he did feel pressured (threatened?) not to reveal or let some truth be known during his time in office — yet felt it was something of extreme, even dire, importance — might he not have risked it at the very end, for the good of the country? In such a situation it is possible Eisenhower was feeling that his conscience needed to be relieved as he saw the end of his influence and of his own life in sight. Eisenhower had, after all, gone through several health crises during his term that could have been terminal. Eisenhower might conceivably have reasoned that his legacy would be completely blackened, his influence totally skewed in a way he did not wish if he did not “spill the beans” at some point. The end of his term — just prior to leaving office — would then be his last chance to come clean and the only time, perhaps, that he could feel he could go through with it without immediate personal, or some other kind we do not know of, repercussions.

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Many of us, in 2009, after Barrack Obama was elected, wondered what had happened to Obama since he took the presidency. We wondered what happened to his ideals, his promises, his “audacity of hope,” and his prescriptions for fundamental change.1 As Jon Stewart — the well-known comedic political commentator — famously put it at the time, Obama was “timid.” I think we all were expecting more “audacity” after Obama’s election and less mere “hoping” for change. We suspected something dire had happened to Obama, for we have watched as Democratic president after Democratic president — especially Bill Clinton, to some extent Jimmy Carter — dialed back their progressive efforts once they assumed the presidency. Jesse Ventura, speaking on CNN, two years into Obama taking office, said Obama was no doubt “taken out to the woodshed.” It occurs to me that those unseen hands directing Obama’s actions might have even been there in 1961, too, and that they were the military-industrial complex Eisenhower called out. Certainly, the forces of the military-industrial complex at that time, in 1961, were not as influential, bloated with power, as they are now. Still, why else would Eisenhower not speak about this until his term was just about over? If he did not feel pressured (threatened?) previously, why would he not have been making this an important issue? His speech… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 20

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 20 United States. It is as if they took such books as 1984 and Brave New World, meant to be warnings, as societal blueprints for their desires to be worshiped and for their goals to control everything below them for their ends alone. Prophetic, prescient presidential address The most significant warning came from the President of the United States who had presided over this post–World-War-Two rise of corporations. Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his final televised address to the nation before leaving office, warned against the power and influence of the military-industrial complex. Prophetic and prescient, his words — often quoted over the decades since — included “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex....” Eisenhower gave this address only days before his term was to end. The significance of Eisenhower waiting till he was about to leave office to inform the American public calls out to be addressed.

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Literary works that were read widely during the 1950s, having a significant impact on this era, include George Orwell’s 1984 (published 1949) and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932). Both books describe dystopian societies that were plausible evolutions of societal tendencies occurring at that time. Conformity; repression of feeling; propaganda and the control of minds by a totalitarian regime; the use of drugs to placate the populace and to keep them in compliance to overweening social controls of all kinds; the consolidation of wealth into an upper echelon of society that would determine all that happened below — these and other characteristics of a world of slaves and sheeple were described in these works. Works such as these set the stage for the decades following in providing clear images of the dangers of a corporate-dominated society with little concern for human feeling, liberty, or rights. On the other side of it, however — something we would not know for decades later and not until the second decade of the Twenty-First Century — these books describe some of the tendencies and goals of our current totalitarians out of Russia, other oligarchs around the world, and Republicans in the… 1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 19

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1. SMOKE, LIES, AND REVELATIONS — 1950s THROUGH 1970s Page 19 Dark Visions, Dire Warnings Then, with the rise of the power of huge corporations during this period, and with competition and profit rapidly eroding all values and making truth the servant of the (always hidden) agenda, factuality and honesty were the first of life’s pillars to be invaded and occupied. Yet insightful commentators saw through it. While this erosion of honesty and truth over the course of the Fifties, tied to the rise of corporations, was gradual, secretive, and so went largely undetected, some astute observers were not fooled and even tried to warn the nation. Books were written in the Fifties about the changing values influenced or directly the result of the amassing of power in these huge corporations. These exposes increased in number during the early Sixties. Noteworthy among these analyses include Organization Man (1956) by William Whyte; David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd (1950); & C. Wright Mill’s trilogy on power—The New Men of Power (1946), White Collar (1951), & The Power Elite (1956), along with his obviously relevant Character & Social Structure (1953). Works like Erich Fromm’s The Sane Society (1955) & Presthus’s The Organizational Society (1963) made arguably more serious criticisms that the psychological map of Americans were being negatively affected in important areas.

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Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies For many the Fifties, with the Cold War as a backdrop, was a time of confusion. The traditional bellwethers for morality and behavior had been undermined from several fronts. Important among them were religion, the military, and the family. Discoveries in the sciences and social sciences had called for a revision of what was commonly thought ... what counted as common sense and what could be counted on as reliable knowledge. Right-wing, Cold War politics did their part to confuse the populace. Honesty and truth had been — since the McCarthy era of the early 50s — shaky, uncertain, and vulnerable. We should note that after WWII and with the Cold War against Russia in full-on battle mode, the control over the populace that was instituted during WWII remained in place as Cold War strategies. Chapter 1 Smoke, Lies, and Revelations — 1950s through 1970s: Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies Page 18

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…collapse of certainty and traditional truths in America during the 1960s. Culture War, Class War is far more than my story, however. I can say I watched the developments that this book unveils and that I was an avid participant in many of its events. But this is America’s story, America’s untold story. I could not have witnessed all the happenings that are brought out here, nor could anyone. For much of this was hidden, and that is the first point. Yet that which is also here is much that many people have seen. Though a lot of it is not remembered. These events are discouraged from being thought about, because they are a reality inconvenient to those who orchestrate events. Hence, such people, who own the media, are wont to back away from allowing their news organizations to report on them or to remind us of them. This book reminds us of truths we should not forget. Yet, when brought to mind, these truths lead to obvious conclusions. This book sheds light on these “inconvenient” but obvious realities of America’s past and present. We begin in the past, the 1950s in America. Chapter 1 Smoke, Lies, and Revelations — 1950s through 1970s: Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies Page 18

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“...the Sixties Generation was the last educated generation. The result was that free-thinking generations would no longer be. They would not be encouraged; they would not be fostered; they would not be tolerated; they would not be allowed.” “...yes, we are still fighting this Culture War. For not only did it never go away, not only has our side not been heard, not only has the other side pounded our positions into rubble; and shouted down, ridiculed, slandered, and misconstrued our points to their own malevolent ends, but.... We ain’t won yet!” [Chapter 1 text begins:] I was born in the year 1950, just prior to the… Chapter 1 Smoke, Lies, and Revelations — 1950s through 1970s: Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies Page 17

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“...since 1973, there was little room in America for any of the elements that characterized the Reformation, the Renaissance, the Age of Reason or Rationalism, or the Age of Enlightenment — whose adherents and tenets spawned the American experiment.” “It had become clear to the people at the top that they could better manipulate the masses without free thinkers in the way. They did not want smart people noticing, that’s for sure.” “...the government taking over people’s minds, having happened beginning in 1971, is now being done in full view.” “Students at my college ... Franklin and Marshal College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania ... occupied the Administration building and found the documents — the letters from wealthy benefactors and alumni insisting on this change or they would stop their funding. This was a concerted effort by the wealthy elite that hit all the liberal arts institutions/universities in America at the exact same time — the spring and summer of 1971.” Chapter 1 Smoke, Lies, and Revelations — 1950s through 1970s: Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies Page 17

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“…over the course of those decades since 1970, Americans saw essentially the rise of a one-party government. Corresponding to that, we witnessed a consolidation of the mass media and its subservience, along with the government’s, to that same small group of people and powers, aligned with the huge corporations and serving their interests for profits and for enrichment of the already filthy rich." Chapter 1 Smoke, Lies, and Revelations — 1950s through 1970s: Politics, Truth, and the Furious Market in Enlightenment Lobotomies Page 16-17

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