Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Britain Scraps Poetry For Diversity" video.

This dumbing down has been slowly coming for many long years, and in the US, it started in northern Ivy League schools before the Civil War. In the southern states, one still had to read an entire bookshelf of Greek literature before applying to a college, whereas Harvard and others started dropping those requirements. If you wonder what the root of this was, it was early Christian Socialism that started the ball rolling. It came to the US from France, and it infected Britain as well.
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@NOWHERE PEOPLE Germany was infected too, by the same French movement. Both Socialism and Communism were birthed in France during and just after their revolution. The Frankfurt School was just a newer school for it, after another religion picked up the same doctrines. That was why some Christian sects promoted a certain Z movement.
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@NOWHERE PEOPLE They want what they think was their Eden back, or what they consider their "Golden Age," which never existed. Adam, or Adapa, was the King of Eridu, which meant they had a government, so the people weren't free from it. Eden, or Eridu, where one was supposedly "free," was a myth concocted by the early Abrahamic religions. It is well known, by scholars, that the tale of Adapa was the root of the story of Adam. Adapa was one of the kings on the Mesopotamian king's list. This actually has roots with a group of heretics in Bohemia, almost one hundred years before Luther, with the Radical Hussites, and Jan Huss. They were put down by one of the last crusades. That was where the idea for some Protestant sects living in a communal co-op arrangement, where they disregarded law, started, which spread out. The Mennonites, Amish, Hutterites, Quakers, and Shakers are a few examples of this idea later on. However, it infected mainstream Protestantism, too, with the Anglicans in both the US and UK after the French Revolution. Two names, though, from France will start you on your journey for what became Communism, and Socialism. They are Gracchus Babeuf, and Henri de Saint-Simon. Here, you move into the end of Protestantism, and into Atheism. There was also the Cult of Reason started by Robespierre.
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