THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VII, Issue # 162, July 28, 2005
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
THE WAR OF THE WORLDVIEWS
By Christopher G. Adamo
MODERN LEFTWING LIBERALISM: THE VIRULENT IDEOLOGY & DISTORTED WORLDVIEW OF THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL
LEFT -- THE LIBERALS' ENDEAVOR TO CONTROL ALL NEWS, INFORMATION, & ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA IN THE U.S.A. & USE THAT
CONTROL TO DISSEMINATE COUNTERCULTURE PROPAGANDA & INDOCTRINATE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC: THE LIBERALS'
FAILURE IN THEIR PROPAGANDA & INDOCTRINATION EFFORTS, DUE TO IMMUNIZATION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO THE
COUNTERCULTURE VIRUS, THE ADVENT OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, & THE INABILITY OF LIBERALS TO DEFEND THEIR POSITION
AGAINST FACTUAL CONFRONTATION
FULL STORY:
In a July 7, 2005, article, [1] columnist John Leo describes how David Koepp, screenplay writer for Stephen Spielberg’s recently
released War of the Worlds, revealed his intent to draw a parallel between the U.S. military in Iraq and the movie’s villains,
an army of hideous space aliens. Based on a late nineteenth-century science fiction novel by British author H.G. Wells, the
original story involved an attack from inhabitants of the planet Mars, whose aim it was to conquer and inhabit the Earth.
Transposing the storyline from 1898 London to modern day New York, while still retaining a faithful portrayal of the original story,
surely must have been a daunting task. Yet, to “die hard” Wells fans (as is this writer), the result was highly commendable, with
one notable exception.
Now we know why that exception was made. Certainly the most hideous of weapons in the Martian arsenal was a poisonous gas,
which was dispersed in order to kill over a widespread area, much like the nerve gas WMDs used by Saddam Hussein against the
Kurds. In his zeal to condemn America, Koepp did not want to inadvertently remind viewers of Hussein’s truly barbarous acts.
In a manner contradictory to Koepp’s subliminal aims, the U.S. military was indeed portrayed in the movie. And, in the only
episode in which its purpose is actually stated, an on-scene commander explained his operation to stall the attacking invaders in
order to allow sufficient time for earthly refugees to escape. In this, a far more vivid and characteristic image of America’s Armed
Forces was depicted.
Worse yet for Koepp and the Hollywood political and cultural Left, any correlations to modern America that viewers might draw
from the invaders are diametrically opposed to those apparently intended.
In the most graphic portrayal of the subhuman cruelty on the part of the invaders, a victim’s lifeblood is gruesomely suctioned
from him in a manner eerily similar to partial-birth abortion, the ultimate “sacred rite” of the Leftist counterculture.
Furthermore, the callous and cruel force with which the invaders conquered their domain, along with their inescapable peering
“eyes” in the aftermath of their conquests, might instead remind viewers of Soviet tanks rolling through Prague and Warsaw.
Wells did advocate social concerns of his day. And certain of these may seem to align him with modern-day Liberals. Yet, living
and writing in the late nineteenth century as he did, he was not subject to the modern “orthodoxy” of “political correctness.” He
endeavored to observe the world around him and comment on it, either directly or through literary equivalence. Such
intellectual honesty will inevitably place him on a collision course with the propagandistic thrust of Leftist ideology.
In The Time Machine, another Wells epic, he astutely characterizes the dehumanizing effects of the social welfare state,
whereby one segment of society maintains another segment as dependent and pliable, doing so in order to continue feeding
(literally) off of them.
His nightmarish portrayal of this facet of the human condition can easily be seen amidst the squalor and vulnerability of those
who rely solely on the nanny state for their sustenance, as well as the callous indifference of the bureaucratic monsters who, if
not kept in check, will work to maintain them in such a condition.
Unfortunately, in the 2002 remake of The Time Machine, despite its poignant story line and dazzling special effects,
producers Walter Parks and David Valdes totally avoided any reference to this central theme of the story.
As has become glaringly apparent since the advent of the alternative media, the facts are miserably inconvenient to the Left.
While mainstream America has, over the course of time, become accustomed to and eventually immunized against the virulence
of the counterculture, the Left never developed the ability to defend itself against factual confrontation.
Wells himself might have explained it thus:
“From the moment the Liberals came into contact with reality, breathed
vapors of truth and drank from its fountain of knowledge, their cause
was doomed. After all of mankind's weapons of persuasion and intellect
had failed, they were brought down by the humblest precepts of
immutable truth that God, in His infinite wisdom, had infused into the
fabric of the universe at its inception.”
“By the toll of a billion lies, man has bought his birthright of discerning
truth, and it is his against all comers. It would still be his, were the
Liberal propagandists ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do
the seekers of ‘right’ strive, nor prevail, in vain.”
NOTE:
[1] John Leo, "Rooting for the Martians," USNews.com (U.S. News & World Report),
July 7, 2005.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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