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America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders-and each other?
In this refreshingly judgmental book, David Gelernter connects the historical dots to reveal a stealth revolution carried out by post-religious globalist intellectuals who, by and large, "can't run their own universities or scholarly fields, but are very sure they can run you.? These imperial academics have deployed their students into the top echelon of professions once monopolized by staid and steady WASPs. In this simple way, they have installed themselves as the new designated drivers of American culture.
Imperial academics live in a world of theory; they preach disdain for mere facts and for old-fashioned fact-based judgments like true or false. Schoolchildren are routinely taught theories about history instead of actual history-they learn, for example, that all nations are equally nice except for America, which is nearly always nasty.
With academic experts to do our thinking for us, we've politely shut up and let second-raters take the wheel. In fact, we have handed the keys to the star pupil and teacher's pet of the post-religious globalist intellectuals, whose election to the presidency of the United States constituted the ultimate global group hug.
How do we finally face the truth and get back into the driver's seat? America-Lite ends with a one-point plan.
List of contents
Chapter 1. The Cultural Revolution and its Consequences
Chapter 2. Meet the Airheads
Obama and the Obamacrats
Airheads in Action
Chapter 3. The Airhead Army
The Obamacratic Way
The Law of Asymmetry
Chapter 4. Who’s Liberal, who’s conservative?
Liberals and Conservatives after the Revolution
Chapter 5. The Cultural Revolution Shapes America
When the Left seemed down and out
Time Bomb
How did it all happen?
Indoctrination and the Airhead Army
Ignorance of the Past
How ignorant are they?
Is this generational shift real?
II America’s Cultural Revolution: 1945-1970 [21,000]
Chapter 6. The Revolution
Chapter 7. The Great Reform
The Society College
The Big Change
The Intellectuals’ College
Chapter 8. The Imperial University
III What do we do now? Repairing the Damage [7500]
The Vietnam Syndrome
The Meaning of Feminism
The Biblical Republic
Cheer up!
Summary
America-Lite (where we all live) is just like America, only turned into an amusement park or a video game or a supersized Pinkberry, where the past and future are blank and there is only a big NOW. How did we come to expect no virtue and so much cynicism from our culture, our leaders--and each other? In this refreshingly judgmental book, David
