tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post8917514744006851686..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: A great leap forward in our schools?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-28602424385981813002016-10-14T13:41:29.152+11:002016-10-14T13:41:29.152+11:00"The determination to police the thoughts of ..."The determination to police the thoughts of citizens goes far beyond anything the Soviets attempted."<br /><br />The effectiveness of the methodology of the moderns has been impressive as well. The new morality has been propagated internally, willfully. With strong peer pressure the progressive state only has to nudge here and there and uphold any progress made via legalisms. This has been far more effective than overt or coerced oppression. <br /><br />One wonders how well current liberal elites learned by the mistakes of the East Block or Chinese experimenters and if the end goal is any different. Maybe they feel in that same retrospect that inhumane suffering caused by their actions is only inevitable, even "cleansing" and necessary?leadpbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08957439101293478340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-3035450839116181732016-10-12T12:09:35.543+11:002016-10-12T12:09:35.543+11:00But Kollontai soon become sidelined in the Bolshev...<em>But Kollontai soon become sidelined in the Bolshevik Government as being too far to the left.</em><br /><br />It didn't take long for the Soviets to realise that socially radical policies were unworkable and destructive. The Soviet bloc quickly became very socially conservative.<br /><br /><em>Western societies are not yet as authoritarian as the communist ones, but modernist ideology has now been taken further with us than it ever was with them.</em><br /><br />I'd argue that modern western societies are more genuinely totalitarian than the Soviet Union ever was. The determination to police the thoughts of citizens goes far beyond anything the Soviets attempted.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-81884319131353028872016-10-12T09:44:08.145+11:002016-10-12T09:44:08.145+11:00Wow. Things are 'progressing' much faster ...Wow. Things are 'progressing' much faster than I thought they would.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449974719371426423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-54888191296042878782016-10-11T23:52:05.539+11:002016-10-11T23:52:05.539+11:00In the 1970s they used to show American school chi...In the 1970s they used to show American school children a movie "Free to be You & Me" I very year. It contained similar themes (boys should cry, girls should be doctors) but didn't get to homosexuality. I guess that was still a bridge too far.Flavianoreply@blogger.com