LETS SLAY THE POMO DRAGON

The actual root of our general malaise goes back to the beginning of time, i.e. the Garden of Eden, but the origin of our current dilemma, a.k.a. 'Cultural Marxism' only reaches back a few decades according to the editor of the Washington Free Beacon newspaper Matthew Continetti:

The beginnings of identity politics can be traced to 1973, the year the first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago—a book that demolished any pretense of communism’s moral authority—was published in the West. The ideological challenge of socialism was fading, its fighting spirit dwindling. This presented a challenge for the Left: how to carry on the fight against capitalism when its major ideological alternative was no longer viable?

The Left found its answer in an identity politics that grew out of anti-colonialism. Marx’s class struggle was reformulated into an ethno-racial struggle—a ceaseless competition between colonizer and colonized, victimizer and victim, oppressor and oppressed. Instead of presenting collectivism and central planning as the gateway to the realization of genuine freedom, the new multiculturalist Left turned to unmasking the supposed power relations that subordinated minorities and exploited third world nations.
The original battleground was the American university, where, as Bruce Bawer writes in The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Politics and the Closing of the Liberal Mind,

I find myself in tentative agreement with this opinion.

Many have blamed the 60's for the radical changes that have impacted our societies in the West, however having grown up during the 60's and reached maturity(?) during the 70's I believe that the hard but fruitful ground established for two decades after the war by the veterans was indeed ploughed, prepared, cultivated and disturbed by the anarchy, rebellion and narcissism of the 60's but the actual seeds of our destruction were sown during the late 70's into the 80's.

These were the decades where I first heard and studied about the philosophical changes happening in society, and I happen to agree with Francis Schaeffer's assertion that: "culture flows downstream from the intellectuals," and that the effects of these changes then begin to make their appearance in the arts; 'fine' and otherwise.

This is the period when 'Post Modernism' began to rear its ugly head in academia and eventually in the arts until today when the effects of moral relativity and the social chaos resulting from narcissistic subjectivity has truly hit the fan and the 'victim-hood of the minorities' has become a living dragon-like thing to behold.

I say we walk in the footsteps of St George and slay these dragons...what say you?