The reason why kids like “Aaron Zeal” are so flip and insolent with their remarks is due to the fact that they do not know the provenance of the ideas and mental templates that comprise their perceptual hermeneutics. They’ve been assiduously put their by very cunning people, who know how to package it all under the guise of “progressivism.”
I remember very distinctly, back in 1981, when I was an undergraduate economics and philosophy major at the University of New Hampshire being instructed by the Israeli Communist leader of our CISPES group (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), himself a graduate exchange student with ties to Cuba through his networks, that I must never, ever use the nomenclature “socialist” or “Marxist” to describe myself and my philosophical leanings. I was “counseled” to never have intellectual discussions with people new to the group or even outsiders about my intellectual leanings. But I did it anyway and pissed him off and others about it. I hate deception, which was, I think, one of the qualities that eventually played a role in my intellectual disaffection with Marxism around 1987.
Be that as it may, I know how these kids today are influenced by the network of cultural Marxism. One who mocks my use of that term truly does not understand what it means and how it applies to the process of two whole generations of kids being prepared for this moment. That flip remark meant to mock my use of the terminology admits of either conscious deflection or of true ignorance of the mental universe (such as it is, or what passes for such)of the one who utters it.
