{"id":12436,"date":"2020-06-21T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:00:26","slug":"how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"How Cultural Revolutions Die \u2014 or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike&nbsp;coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don\u2019t just change governments or leaders. Instead, they try to redefine entire societies. Their leaders call them \u201cholistic\u201d and \u201csystematic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cultural revolutionaries attack the very referents of our daily lives. The Jacobins\u2019 so-called Reign of Terror during the French Revolution slaughtered Christian clergy, renamed months, and created a new supreme being: Reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mao cracked down on supposed Western decadence such as the wearing of eyeglasses, and he made peasants forge pot iron and intellectuals wear dunce caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moammar Qaddafi\u2019s Green Book cult wiped out violins and forced Libyans to raise chickens in their apartments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current Black Lives Matter revolution has \u201ccanceled\u201d certain movies, television shows, and cartoons, toppled statues, tried to create new autonomous urban zones, and renamed streets and plazas. Some fanatics shave their heads. Others have shamed authorities into washing the feet of their fellow revolutionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/06\/how-cultural-revolutions-die-or-not\/#slide-1\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Unlike&nbsp;coups or political revolutions, cultural revolutions don\u2019t just change governments or leaders. Instead, they try to redefine entire societies. Their leaders call them \u201cholistic\u201d and \u201csystematic.\u201d Cultural revolutionaries attack the very referents of our daily lives. The Jacobins\u2019 so-called Reign of Terror during the French Revolution slaughtered Christian clergy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3eA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12478,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/year-zero\/","url_meta":{"origin":12436,"position":0},"title":"Year Zero","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Every\u00a0cultural revolution starts at year zero, whether explicitly or implicitly. 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