"In the Frankfurt School analysis, consumption culture and mass media displaced the role of a father figure in the paternalistic family. Rather than serving to liberate society from patriarchal authority however, this merely replaced it with the authority of the "totally administered" society.'
This is how fatherhood, and then family, was to be eradicated from Western culture. So how well has their theory worked?
We have a materialistic consumer culture.
We have a media-dependent population.
We have fatherless homes, or homes in which children are reminded by government school and mass media not to respect fathers or authority.
We have a centralized administrative state to make sure that this hard-left cultural structure remains dominant.
This is the cultural revolution and the "cultural hegemony" the Frankfurt School revolutionaries fought to achieve.
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour: