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By Mike Gray
“Everybody wants to rule the world,” the song says. Liberal-Progressives have, since the 19th century, practically cornered the market on attempts at world domination.
In the first of two short videos, Ed Driscoll gives us a quick overview of the modern Liberal-Progressive manifestations of world dom thinking:
To officially kick off another year of blogging, here’s our latest Silicon Graffiti video, the first of a two part series, in which we look at several attempts by the left to, as Tom Wolfe would say, “Start from Zero,” and hit the CTL-ALT-DLT keys on western civilization. We’ll explore:
* The rapid social and technological gains western civilization was making in the 19th century before …
* … the arrival of Marx, Nietzsche, and other nascent “progressives,” to upset mankind’s Etch-a-Sketch.
* Nietzsche’s 1882 “God is Dead” aphorism, which ol’ Friedrich definitely considered to be a two-edged sword.
* How World War I set the stage for the rest of the horrors of the 20th century, via a quote from Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism.
* A la Woody Allen in Annie Hall, an awards ceremony for the most bloodthirsty leftwing tyrant of the 20th century.
* How the Bauhaus and other elements of the Weimar Republic were helping Germany “Start from Zero,” even before the Nazis arrived.
* A mournful 1966 Time magazine cover echoes Nietzsche, followed by more sixties reprimitivization, Haight-Ashbury style.
You can find Driscoll’s Pajamas Media post here, with the embedded video (8 minutes 5 seconds).
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