The Long Walk Through the Institutions

Gramski understood the importance of destroying the pillars of western society. This was done by turning our institutions into their antithesis. Patriotism must be replaced with cynicism. The family should no longer produce children or cogs for the capitalist engine. Christianity, needed to be viewed as a hideous institution who's only purpose was to fill the money coffers of the Vatican and the head offices of other renowned religions. Sacrifice and doing what's good for your country, needed to be converted into doing what's good for me, and to hell with what's good for my war mongering nation. Schools had to be "dumbed down" in order to create a level paying field where excellence is replaced by breathing bodies attending a mediocre lackluster learning environment. And marriage, that wretched institution, needed to be replaced by more imaginative social experiences. Accountability needed to be transformed into an environmental argument to justify incompetence, sloth, criminality, and mental illness. Black was turned into white and visa versa. R.D Laing described schizophrenia as a rational reaction to an insane world. Eric Fromm argued that our cities, built by humans since the days of Rome and before, were really not human at all but dehumanizing institutions. Fromm was a member of the Frankfurt school.