A destroyed society is more easily dominated. Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, weighs in on the historical significance of the 2008 presidential election. Many falsely confessed in the vain hope of mercy. The victims were accused, berated, assaulted. Dunce caps, sometimes wastebaskets, were placed on the victims’ heads, and placards stipulating their crimes hung from their necks. It was important always to have a jeering crowd it was important that the electric feeling that comes with the possibility of murder be present. In the struggle sessions the accused, often teachers suspected of lacking proletarian feeling, were paraded through streets and campuses, sometimes stadiums. “Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons,” the state newspaper instructed them.
At least that’s what the headline to her latest piece suggests: The Culture War Is a Leftist Offensive. In the mid-1960s Mao Zedong, suspicious of those around him, wary of the moves of erstwhile Soviet allies, damaged by a disastrous famine his policies had caused, surveyed the scene and decided it was time for a little mayhem. News from America tends to arrive late in the country’s media capital, but even Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has discovered there’s a culture war going on. They were instructed by the party to “clear away the evil habits of the old society” and extinguish what came to be known as “the four olds”-old ideas and customs, old habits and culture. Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal: Get Ready for the Struggle Session In America, and even more so on Twitter, there's a whiff of China's Cultural Revolution in the air. But what I find myself thinking of these days is the ritual humiliations, the struggle sessions. The students became the paramilitary Red Guards.
Mao unleashed university and high school students to weed out enemies and hold them to account. This included public humiliation and public executions. These became more and more advanced over time. “In America, and even more so on Twitter, there’s a whiff of China’s Cultural Revolution in the air.” Peggy Noonan has taken stock of the Ebola crisis in America and she’s devised a solution, an answer, a panacea, if you will. During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party used a variety of torture techniques. PEGGY NOONAN: Get Ready for the Struggle Session. Get Ready for the Struggle Session In America, and even more so on Twitter, there’s a whiff of China’s Cultural Revolution in the air.
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