June 18, 2020
Are We Headed into Year Zero?
By T.R. Clancy
In TV's The Man in the High Castle, which presents an alternative 1963 America occupied by victorious Axis powers, Nicole Dormer, the Lebensborn siren dispatched to Nazi America to shoot propaganda films à la Leni Riefenstahl, announces to minister of propaganda Billy Turner the project name for Goebbels's latest idea:
Nicole: Jahr Null. Year Zero. An experiment. A reset. A new America.
Billy: What's the angle?
N: Deprive people of their national consciousness. Dilute their national pride. Do not teach their history.
B.: So the Reichsfuhrer wants to erase American history.
N.: They don't have that much of it anyway.
B. When do we start?
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It's just a TV show. But then you change the channel and see the news. Back in our world, Year Zero's been in progress for decades.
Describing the fallout from Stanford University's decision 30 years ago to banish Western civ, Stanley Kurtz has produced an in-depth report outlining how the goal of "[a]cademic history as currently written and taught ... is to undermine the public's sense of national or civilizational identity. With nothing left to kill or die for, the world will presumably 'live as one.'"
