David Gelernter – America Lite – How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats) (Encounter Books)

As a country and a culture, over the past 40 to 50 years the United States has gone through a seismic cultural shift. The rumble has been long and low; steady and slow, but devastating to our society and our country.

It is that cultural shift that is the basis for David Gelernter’s new book; America Lite - How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats).  Gerlernter makes the case that that academia has inculcated and indoctrinated our children; starting with teaching theories of history rather than actual history.

Gerlernter details the depreciation of the study of not only history, but also religion and literacy; replaced liberal, left ideology, secular humanism that sprung up in the post war era. 

America Lite, gets you to ponder things like political correctness run amok, the victim mentality, the over-lawyered lawsuit culture, everybody gets a turn/trophy and we can’t keep score mentality. The shift has turned success into greed and a need to tear down what was once revered and aspired to.

The result of this educational fifth column has culminated in the election to the Presidency of Barack Obama; the poster child for this vein of twisted thinking. Given the results thus far, it’s easy to see that the election of Obama wasn’t so much that we were enamored with his policies, but with the idea of electing the first African American.

Clearly those results now add up to dismal failure; the question is will we recognize it, or make an excuse for it.