"If you wanted to drive Christianity out of American life, how would
you go about doing it? Suppose you could design a whole New Culture
that you think would so weaken American Christianity that it would no
longer be a vital force in society... (Then it would be easier to bring in Marxism, a world government that is Communist at the bottom and fascist at the top, plus a supporting collectivist culture).
Part of your plan would be to create a kind of drouth of culture and
spirituality in the fifties so people would soon be starving for
culture and spirituality. Then, when the New Culture began to arrive,
it would be very exciting and would be the "springtime of the cultural
revolution." At first only a few thousand people would be involved in
the New Culture, from about 1959 to 1963. But then a few years later
it would grow to include millions of participants.
The early excitement of the "cultural revolution" and artistic
bohemianism of about 1959 to 1968 was like experiencing a long wanted
rain on sun-parched and whitened ground in the Southwest. After a long
and hard drouth, when rain does finally come, its smell on that dry
soil is so invigorating and delightful. So, in the late fifties there
was for a few people some promise of a cultural rain. We waited for it
like old George West who sat up there on top of his huge pile of
skulls from his longhorns, dead from lack of rain, looking southeast
to the Gulf of Mexico for rain that would bring relief to his herds in
South Texas.
The art bohemians were the first cultural rain, and then in 1962 came
the drug movement under psychologists Tim Leary and Richard Alpert.
Soon we had self psychology and humanistic psychotherapy and an added
interest in all kinds substitute religions and pseudo-spiritual
experiencing. In 1966 the hippies came on the scene, and the feminists
got going strong by 1970. It rained and rained liberating movements,
all designed to free us from the restraints of pleasure and
self-fulfillment which many thought were part of Christianity. After
it starts to rain and the rain keeping going, it takes a while for all
the little streams to get to the Big River and fill it to flood stage.
By the early seventies the more negative side of all these movements
flowed together into one New Popular Culture. But before the national
media sold the New Culture on a mass scale there was a social
openness, some trust, creativity, expansiveness and excitement going
for a few thousand followers of the avant-garde then.
By the late seventies the Big River was way above flood stage. The
flooded Big River is the New Culture. By 1978 just about everybody was
being swept downstream in the middle of the Big River, which is the
late 20th century popular culture. Some people in the backwoods are
not being swept along as fast...By the end of the seventies most
Christians and non-Christians were just drifting along under the
beguilement of the New Culture. If you had been the designer of all
this, things would have seemed to be working according to plan.
The current out there in the middle of the Big River was fearfully
swift by 1980 and there were strong undertows that could pull you
under. The use of hard drugs is one dangerous undertow. So is the
drift into the occult. There are mills of people out there in the
current of the New Culture. Like dumb cattle, people follow one another around
swimming in circles, until they go under and may drown.
The New Culture and its Christian versions were designed to make sure
it would be very hard to swim against that flood current all alone.
Only a good swimming horse will take us back upstream against that
strong current of the New Culture - which is both outside and inside
of American Christianity. But one does not sit up there proudly on the
great swimming horse, which is the word of God, and ride the
river...You throw off all the heavy gear - saddle, bridle, boots,
spurs, ten gallon hat, six-shooter and ducking coat - and hang on to
the horse. He will land you safe on solid Biblical ground upstream.
Being blind, these New Culture people just follow the mill of people.
The full effect of some of these mills was not to be fully felt until
the children of the families that were broken in the mills and in the
quests began to turn to crime in the late seventies. From 1972 to
1981, violent crime rose 44 percent."
II Timothy 3: 2-9, A Fulfilled Prophecy?
you go about doing it? Suppose you could design a whole New Culture
that you think would so weaken American Christianity that it would no
longer be a vital force in society... (Then it would be easier to bring in Marxism, a world government that is Communist at the bottom and fascist at the top, plus a supporting collectivist culture).
Part of your plan would be to create a kind of drouth of culture and
spirituality in the fifties so people would soon be starving for
culture and spirituality. Then, when the New Culture began to arrive,
it would be very exciting and would be the "springtime of the cultural
revolution." At first only a few thousand people would be involved in
the New Culture, from about 1959 to 1963. But then a few years later
it would grow to include millions of participants.
The early excitement of the "cultural revolution" and artistic
bohemianism of about 1959 to 1968 was like experiencing a long wanted
rain on sun-parched and whitened ground in the Southwest. After a long
and hard drouth, when rain does finally come, its smell on that dry
soil is so invigorating and delightful. So, in the late fifties there
was for a few people some promise of a cultural rain. We waited for it
like old George West who sat up there on top of his huge pile of
skulls from his longhorns, dead from lack of rain, looking southeast
to the Gulf of Mexico for rain that would bring relief to his herds in
South Texas.
The art bohemians were the first cultural rain, and then in 1962 came
the drug movement under psychologists Tim Leary and Richard Alpert.
Soon we had self psychology and humanistic psychotherapy and an added
interest in all kinds substitute religions and pseudo-spiritual
experiencing. In 1966 the hippies came on the scene, and the feminists
got going strong by 1970. It rained and rained liberating movements,
all designed to free us from the restraints of pleasure and
self-fulfillment which many thought were part of Christianity. After
it starts to rain and the rain keeping going, it takes a while for all
the little streams to get to the Big River and fill it to flood stage.
By the early seventies the more negative side of all these movements
flowed together into one New Popular Culture. But before the national
media sold the New Culture on a mass scale there was a social
openness, some trust, creativity, expansiveness and excitement going
for a few thousand followers of the avant-garde then.
By the late seventies the Big River was way above flood stage. The
flooded Big River is the New Culture. By 1978 just about everybody was
being swept downstream in the middle of the Big River, which is the
late 20th century popular culture. Some people in the backwoods are
not being swept along as fast...By the end of the seventies most
Christians and non-Christians were just drifting along under the
beguilement of the New Culture. If you had been the designer of all
this, things would have seemed to be working according to plan.
The current out there in the middle of the Big River was fearfully
swift by 1980 and there were strong undertows that could pull you
under. The use of hard drugs is one dangerous undertow. So is the
drift into the occult. There are mills of people out there in the
current of the New Culture. Like dumb cattle, people follow one another around
swimming in circles, until they go under and may drown.
The New Culture and its Christian versions were designed to make sure
it would be very hard to swim against that flood current all alone.
Only a good swimming horse will take us back upstream against that
strong current of the New Culture - which is both outside and inside
of American Christianity. But one does not sit up there proudly on the
great swimming horse, which is the word of God, and ride the
river...You throw off all the heavy gear - saddle, bridle, boots,
spurs, ten gallon hat, six-shooter and ducking coat - and hang on to
the horse. He will land you safe on solid Biblical ground upstream.
Being blind, these New Culture people just follow the mill of people.
The full effect of some of these mills was not to be fully felt until
the children of the families that were broken in the mills and in the
quests began to turn to crime in the late seventies. From 1972 to
1981, violent crime rose 44 percent."
II Timothy 3: 2-9, A Fulfilled Prophecy?
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