This article critiques the influence of critical theory on American culture, arguing that it instills self-doubt and hatred for the country in children. The author contrasts the blind old man's joy in his nation's newfound freedom with the cynicism of those who criticize everything American, highlighting the importance of recognizing and celebrating achievements.
Critical Theory Has Saturated Our Culture With Demoralizing Self-Doubt, Causing Children To Hate Our CountryA cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities—all these are marks, not … of superiority, but of weakness….
Critical theory is the crooked prism through which leftist ideologues refract history and the world. Its goal is indiscriminate critique of Western society in order to dismantle its foundations. Few of these ideas have proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt School and its reactionary philosophy of “critical theory.” … When everything could be questioned, nothing could be real, and the muscular, confident empiricism that had just won the war gave way, in less than a generation, to a fashionable Central European nihilism that was celebrated on college campuses across the United States.
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