>>12704102not to shill one particular point of view, but it's spelled out very clearly in the video linked in
>>12704023Basically Norman Dodd found when tasked to investigate the Carnegie Endowment, and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations among others that they had an explicit motivation to attempt to bring the US and USSR closer together and usher in the possibility of a situation in which the same financial interests would dominate and control them both.
To do this, they needed to change both public perception of American politics and culture, and they needed to make the average person's life in both countries more similar than they were different.
That latter point has played out in the western world in an obvious way, although more obviously with Asia than with the USSR.
To achieve the former, these foundations and endowments needed to make sure that American history and politics were taught in a way which was more friendly to their interests. They therefore used their endowments to fund historians and get them into authoritative positions. At first, they tried approaching established historians like Charles and Mary Beard, who refused. So they funded a new generation of historians and social philosophers of their own, through their doctorates, and into academia. Once they had enough of them reliant on their funding, they were able to permanently change the direction of academia, and through that, the teaching of history and politics in the west.
I mean, it isn't just a kooky coincidence that social justice is promoted in academia but also by J.P. Morgan Chase.
