"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. ... In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us" [Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, pp. vii-viii].

"[P]opular culture, particularly the cinema, has molded opinion in identifying its heroes with a false image of THE LEFT and ... Hollywood has never dealt honestly with either the crimes of Stalin and the gulags, Pol Pot, Castro, Arafat, or the principled resistance in World War II to the Nazis on the part of conservative, Christian, monarchist, nationalist and authoritarian parties and leaders..." [from a review of the book, The Left is Seldom Right, by New English Review].

"Being based primarily on emotion rather than reason, the politically correct prefer the personal in an argument rather than the abstract. ... telling personal stories, particularly hard luck cases. These personal stories, which work well for TV, may shed light on a general issue, but often they don't. Concentrating on the horrors faced by a starving African child will induce a sense of guilt in Western readers, but it gives no clue to whether the child is starving because of corrupt governments and lack of rule of law, or because the West is not giving enough aid" [Anthony Browne, The Retreat of Reason, p. 23].

"If I really wanted to influence national life, I'd try to become the editor of a major soap opera. These dramas have a strange power over the national mind, spreading ideas by stealth, turning unpopular views into mainstream conventional wisdom. ... just as we were once powerfully influenced by the real people who lived around us, now we want to be liked by the soap characters who have replaced them. ... So if you can make those characters do certain things in a noble-seeming way, or put certain views in the mouth of a popular figure, you can influence and even change public opinion. You can also change language and manners. ... I've no doubt that the Coronation Street drama about Hayley Cropper doing away with herself will greatly help the campaign to extend abortion on demand from unborn babies to ill or otherwise inconvenient children and adults. How long before they, too, can be pressured into seeking death, and then lawfully snuffed out? For Hayley Cropper is a well-liked character, and the sympathetic portrayal of her plight plunges straight into the emotions of viewers. I think this is insidious and underhand. That's not just because all such soap propaganda is in the hands of the Politically Correct - though it is. Vanessa Whitburn, who radicalised the radio soap The Archers, once blurted out: 'To be PC is really to be moral. It is having a correct moral stance'. The worst thing is that this sort of propaganda by melodrama bypasses wisdom and reason. Those who are manipulated by it do not know what is happening to them. In short, it is brainwashing. It's so sinister that if commercial advertisers did it, it would probably be illegal" [Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday, 19 January 2014].

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"The Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution.

Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the 'oppressive' order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus - 'continuing the work of Western Marxists by other means' as one of their members noted.

To further the advance of their 'quiet' cultural revolution ... the [Frankfurt] School recommended (among other things):

(1) the creation of racism offences,
(2) continual change to create confusion,
(3) the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children,
(4) the undermining of schools' and teachers' authority,
(5) huge immigration to destroy identity,
(6) the promotion of excessive drinking,
(7) emptying of churches,
(8) an unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime,
(9) dependency on the state or state benefits,
(10) control and dumbing down of media,
(11) encouraging the breakdown of the family.

One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud's idea of 'pansexualism' - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:

(a) attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children,
(b) abolish differences in the education of boys and girls,
(c) abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces,
(d) declare women to be an 'oppressed class' and men as 'oppressors'."

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
(Isaiah 5:20-21)

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