I agree. One thing that you haven't mentioned though is the things American and European writers, composers and artists were making before Jews flooded into America, during the immigration of the early 20th Century.
Would you expound on that, please, Marcellino
Sure. As I understand it, Europe had gone through "the enlightenment," basically rejecting divine revelation as a useful means to run the world. By the romantic era, it was basically a rejection of reason as a useful means for running the world. And by the modern era, we'd basically given up on everything and were just following our impulses. But, by the second half of the 19th century, there were writers like Nietzche and Darwin experiencing mass appeal. America had its share as well, but I'm not as familiar with them, off the top of my head. However, there's Walt Whitman, who believed christianity wasn't unique. And, he was a unitarian. So, a christian who denies the trinity. What is that? It kinda sounds like a jew to me.
By the turn of the century, people like Einstein and Freud gained acceptance and then became sort of fathers of western thought, which of course was catastrophic, but it's not hard to see why that would happen, given the culture they were entering with their extremely anti-christian "science." But hardly anybody pairs einstein with the likes of freud and darwin, so it's kind of presumptuous to say that, but I think that's where he belongs and we'd never say anything different, if no one ever presumed to
Einstein fit right in with the likes of Nietzche and Walt Whitman, because he just said, your philosophies are reflected in the natural order. So, Whitman thought all paths lead to god and einstein thought all perspectives were equally valid, even though they came to fundamentally different conclusions. Nietzche thought, ultimately, everything was chaos and einstein showed that there was no real order to things, only perception. And freud came along and said the same thing, in regards to morality. Basically, there was no ultimate morality, just the power to impose it on others. Which, seemed to fit right in with Marx and later Mao and of course, Bush and Obama and all the critics of catholicism, who just point to The Spanish Inquisition and say, see that proves it, the only morality in the world is the one that is imposed by force; in other words, might makes right and that's all that's real. So, there is no true morality. Hence, nihilism, but tempered by existentialism, which is imposed by the mighty on the weak. At least that's how I think this modern era and the people who run it, seem to think.
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