[Blunderov]
The truth at last! Noam Chomsky precipitated the attack with his
terror-memes. It seems so clear to me now.
BTW those were REALLY sour grapes back there; I shan't return.
Tralalala.
[rhinoceros]
In fact, as twisted as it is, Horowitz's article may have its uses.
At the time when we had a military dictatorship in Greece (1967-1974), they used to run everyday anticommunist serials on radio and TV, where cunning and evil communists were working hard to undermine the three holiest of our values, that is "Homeland, Religion, Family". (That was THE official motto.)
Most parents did not let their kids watch those programs, but most kids used to keep a small radio receiver hidden somewhere in their bedroom and listen to the weird horror stories late at night, notably one called "Caught in the spider's web" at 10 pm. What was strange was that a lot of kids seemed to empathize with the communist caricatures presented in the stories rather than with "Homeland, Religion, Family". The kids used to talk about the stories in school, and several became communists (or so they thought) precisely because of those stories.
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