Chapter 13
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Obvious problems with Marxist sexual theory
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Alvin Toffler's recommendations for the future of sexual relationships
are questionable from the start. As Judis summarized things, family life
should be remade into something that is increasingly "more idiosyncratic
and diverse, encompassing traditional nuclear families, gay marriages,
communes and single parents."
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To be sure, parts of this new paradigm cannot be argued with. Traditional
nuclear families are not the only option for the human species even if,
as history demonstrates, this kind of arrangement is highly stable and
works well for multitudes of people. At a minimum, nuclear families ought
to be encouraged as essential to official policy. Mother, father, and
2.3 kids is as close to a common ideal for families as can exist
in the real world.
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Alternatives like communes are possible; sometimes they are quite
successful,
usually only when there is a religious basis for this kind of family, but
they
can work. As a rough estimate, communes are ideal for 1/2 of 1% of any
population. But they should be an option for that half percent.
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What is notable are other alternatives that Toffler left out: Polygyny,
serial monogamy, and extended families encompassing parents
and grandparents and maybe other blood relations. In parts of Asia
and Africa, extended families are the norm, or are very common.
These kinds of families also tend to be very stable. Why did Toffler
omit them?
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Polyandry has been omitted from consideration here because, except when
a group of blood brothers marries one woman, these kinds of families are
very unstable and seldom function well. There is no such thing when it
comes
to sex that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. In case you
have not noticed, each gender is different than the other, and not just
in terms of body parts and pitch of voice. Which is to say that some things
work well for men that do not work well at all for women, and vice versa.
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Polygyny can also be stable. For obvious reasons it is more problematic
than conventional marriage, either nuclear or extended, but it does have
a high success rate in many cultures. Including among 19th century Mormons
in the United States and, for that matter, speaking of modern Mormon
'polygamists,' but not Mormons like Warren Jeffs and his abuses
of this form of wedlock.
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This is not to discuss Muslim polygamy in which women are regarded
as legal and social inferiors and have limited rights; that is a separate
issue,
especially since in some Muslim nations the practice of allowing rapes of
girls as young as 8 or 9 is looked upon as "marriage" -following in
Muhammad's footsteps.
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This is about polygyny as a custom of long standing in places like Bali and
Swaziland, and, for that matter, until recently in countries like China and
India. And, of course, the Bible sanctions polygyny; patriarchs like
Abraham
were polygynous as were kings of ancient Israel like David and Solomon.
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Moreover, I once read a study that used computer modeling to uncover the
fact
that who we are as human beings has been conditioned by a background of
our species as polygynous. The evidence shows up in human genetics.
There may also be at least some secondary sexual characteristics that make
the best sense in families with multiple wives seeking the attentions of
one
husband. And in nature most animal species are polygynous.
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As for serial monogamy, this should need no explanation. It might be best
if married couples stayed together but things do not always work out that
way.
Hence, the existence of a population of Americans who are polygamous,
just not at the same time.
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When the subject under discussion is single parenthood it is ludicrous in
the
extreme to claim that this form of family is as good as relationships where
there is both a father and mother. This is speaking of either families
where
all children have the same two parents or families where children, or some
children, are adopted. What is most important is the fact that there is
both a father and mother.
Sometimes single parenthood may be necessary, there simply isn't an
alternative available at the time, but who is kidding whom? And a single
woman can remarry if she has been divorced or widowed, speaking primarily
of women who still are of child bearing age. And she should, she owes it to
her children. Plus it is anything but a secret that children of single
mothers,
with no male role model to emulate, tend to become lawless, to join street
gangs,
and to otherwise take part in anti-social behavior. To valorize single
parenthood,
rather than regarding it as a misfortune, is insane. Not even to mention
the stress
that single motherhood subjects a woman to.
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We can be thankful that some single mothers do not marry boyfriends
who are worthless parasites with no real talent and only half a brain, and
if you know someone like that, this worry can be a nightmare.
We can also be thankful that other single mothers are willing to wait until
a responsible man enters their life who can become a good husband,
but otherwise regarding single motherhood as anything but a liability
is senseless. To recommend it as social policy is unjustified.
And it is about time someone said so.
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Toffler, in recommending it as an "alternative" was both irresponsible
and immoral.
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When we come to his recommendation that homosexual relationships are a
'good' alternative he has crossed every line that should never be crossed.
License to the psychologically sick to indulge in their sickness is a
travesty
of everything decent in human relationships. And if children are involved
it is criminal at the felony level. Each and every judge who has ruled in
favor
of "parental rights" for homosexuals should be charged with felony crime
as well. The same should apply to Justices of the Supreme Court; this kind
of malfeasance is inexcusable. The damages such legal decisions cause can
never be fully repaired. What they have done is a crime against humanity.
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How many studies do we need that tell us that children of homosexual
pseudo-families suffer any number of serious debilities as a result of
such arrangements? Of course, in the present climate of public opinion
manufactured by the Democratic Party, by "moderate" Republicans,
and by the news media, these studies have been predictably slandered
as "discredited," as "propaganda", or as "exaggerated," but the
facts speak for themselves.
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Here is a compilation of findings from the following papers:
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"Emotional Problems among Children with Same-Sex Parents:
Difference by Definition," Donald Sullins, British Journal of Education,
Society & Behavioural Science. reported on by Napp Nazworth in the
February 12, 2015 issue of the Christian Post;
"Homosexual Child Molestations By Foster Parents: Illinois, 1997-2002,"
summary report by Paul Cameron, Family Research Institute; and
"Children Raised by Homosexual Parents More Likely to Identify
as Gay: Study, Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews, October 25, 2010.
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Abuse. Children in homosexual households are far more likely to be
physically or sexually abused than children in father / mother homes.
Depending on which study one consults, the rate of abuse can be
as high as twenty times that for children raised by sexually normal
parents. To be sure, there are "bad parents" among heterosexuals,
but speaking of sexual abuse alone, one set of findings has it that
sexual abuse occurs at about at less than 1% rates for father / mother
families and nearly a 30% rate among homosexuals.
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Homosexual rape. In the Illinois study of 270 parents reported
on child abuse charges to Illinois child services 34% consisted of
homosexual rape; the percentage of homosexuals in the general population
is approximately 3 % so this would suggest that homosexuals are ten times
as likely to be child molesters. This is also consistent with studies that
put
the rate of domestic violence in the same range for homosexuals.
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Emotional trauma. Psychological and emotional problems are more
prevalent among children in homosexual households than in father / mother
homes at rates that are approximately 2 : 1. This includes feelings of
distress
and behavior issues. This is true when factoring out the effects of gender,
race, education and income.
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Sexual orientation outcomes. Contrary to homosexual claims that children
raised in same-sex households are no more likely to become homosexual
than is true for the general population, which is 3% or so, it is a minimum
of 16% in same-sex ersatz families and as high as 57 %, the high figure
reflecting the greater likelihood for girls to become female homosexuals
than boys becoming male homosexuals. There are two to three times
as many male homosexuals as female homosexuals in the general
population, however.
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These studies were designed in full awareness of homosexual claims that
any differences in results can be explained by effects of discrimination
or that since children in homosexual households are adopted (by
definition),
that any problems they may have must be the same as for other adopted
children. These factors were controlled for; the results reported
in the preceding refute homosexual pretensions.
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The issue of same-sex parenting is framed by homosexuals as one of
equal rights for adult homosexuals; the argument for limiting adoptions
to sexually normal families is based on the rights of children.
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In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Biosocial Science,
Walter Schumm,
a professor of family studies at Kansas State University, says that another
homosexual argument, namely that parents cannot influence their children's
"sexual orientation" is nonsense when, of course, parents can influence
everything else. He is right, of course, since so-called "homosexual
research"
is invariably biased, invariably uses flawed methodology, and is always
based on fallacious premises. The response of pro-homosexual organizations
to these kinds of criticism is always the same: ad hominem attacks
and name calling, categorizing their opponents as "hate groups."
American culture is now truly Orwellian in character.
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In other words, Alvin Toffler approves each and every evil that befalls
children, as does everyone else who sees nothing wrong in homosexual
so-called "marriage."
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But, hey, its too much trouble to research this stuff, no need to as much
as open a book when you can let homosexuals or their friends in the
media do your thinking for you. In so many words, the entire political
establishment consists of incompetents or people who have no sense
of morality whatsoever even when the lives of children are destroyed.
The entire system is a complete outrage. Yet multitudes -mostly but
far from exclusively on the political Left- think all of this is
"normal."
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This is only the beginning of the discussion.
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Chapter 14
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Lessons learned the hard way
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What could not be ignored as the months passed as I worked for Mr Toffler,
was his willingness to compromise almost everyone he had dealings with.
After all, everybody who was associated with Toffler in any public capacity
made themselves -their reputations- vulnerable through that connection.
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This became obvious -after the fact, but nonetheless- concerning the
time
when Toffler was organizing the Committee on Anticipatory Democracy.
This was a new kind of advocacy group which was non-partisan in character,
something which I regarded as a very good idea. Hence my enthusiasm
in working for the group's success, just about completely setting aside
my other misgivings.
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The objective was to create a high-profile list of signatories willing to
take
a public stand on the need for the Government to assess the possible
(or probable) effects of laws the Congress passed. While -by far- most
of
the recruiting for the Committee was done by Toffler, names like Margaret
Mead, astronaut Scott Carpenter, William Ruckelshaus, Clement Bezold,
Hazel Henderson, etc., my contribution was nonetheless meaningful. There
were two people who signed on at my personal request, Congressman
Carl Perkins of Kentucky, and my friend at the time, not a friend any
more,
Newt Gingrich.
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What would have happened in the context of 1975 had the fact that Toffler
was an ex-Communist have had on American politics and intellectual culture
had this become a news story? To get some idea, think of the here-and-now.
What if the signatories to some organization created in 2014 learned that
what they had put their names to was founded by, well, a former Communist,
in our era, for comparable effect, a Maoist? What would people like Ross
Douthat, Steve Sailer, Congressman Peter Defazio, John Mc Whorter,
Christina Hoff Sommers, P.J. O'Rourke, Avril Lavigne, and
Charles Krauthammer say? Nothing?
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Plus there were all those Congressional hearings at which Toffler
testified.
I do not know the exact number but there have been at least twenty-five
such appearances over the years, including sworn testimony before the:
Subcommittee on Government Research,
House Committee on Government Reform,
Hearing on Social Security and the Future of Retirees,
Committee on the Judiciary, and the
House Committee on Science and Technology.
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In case you are interested do a Google search and type in:
congressional hearings "alvin toffler"
You will find page after page on the subject, 55,000 hits, although
most clearly are duplicates and some are unrelated.
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What, exactly, is common sentiment among our elected officials when
listening to former Communists who lie about their past membership
in the Communist Party? They don't care?
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These comments should not be taken as indicative of my feelings in 1976
nor the first months of 1977. I had compromised my conscience in working
for Alvin Toffler even if I had gotten out of New York as soon as it was
feasible. Mr. Toffler is, as they say, a "likable guy," and we still had
much
in common in the area of futures research. There might be some potential
yet,
I thought to myself. And it was through Toffler that I was hired by Arthur
Bernard in Scottsdale to edit a new magazine to be called The Future.
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The story of the magazine could take a chapter of its own but it should be
sufficient to provide a short sketch; this isn't central to the story
although
there is one question that needs to be answered...
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About Mr. Bernard, the publisher, he was someone it was good to work for
in terms of learning the ropes of the business; he took the time to teach
me
a number of valuable lessons, not just one or two rules of thumb, but
lesson
after lesson over a period of close to a year. However, he was also a
tightwad,
had little concern for anything but operating as cheaply as possible, and
not
because he was strapped, certainly not when one thinks about his spacious
ranch house in one of America's most upscale communities. What he paid me
was less than a living wage and the only way to survive was to find the
cheapest
room available in a downscale neighborhood in Phoenix and live on a
"loose change" budget. To buy books or writer's supplies meant forgetting
about clothes, about entertainment, about travel, and everything else.
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Then there were Bernard's questionable judgements about the look of the
magazine. While he certainly knew what he was doing as a publisher, I had
acted as an editor before that time, in college in Chicago and at the
University
of Massachusetts, and there were lessons I already knew, and it became
clear
that he was capable to making bad decisions. The Future as it finally
appeared
was not the magazine I had hoped it would become, there were several
major design features that struck me as very ill-advised but that I had to
live with at his insistence.
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As for an advertising budget, there was no advertising budget -unless you
count
approximately $ 400 for a national ad campaign. This wasn't $ 400,000
it was $ 400.00 What can you do with that kind of money? A few small ads
that I never saw was what it bought, that and maybe $ 50 worth of postage
as I set out to write letters to everyone who seemed worth writing to,
who might have an interest.
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And, of course, I was the only paid staff, also my own illustrator, with
help
from one basically unpaid volunteer, a young woman who was an aspiring
writer who, nonetheless, turned in some quality work. We did the very best
we could but Bernard was asking for the impossible.
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These things added up, it was no surprise that the magazine came and went
after one issue. And it wasn't just Bernard toward whom I felt resentment.
It was from that time onward that I made a personal vow that if I ever
became
a successful publisher myself, that those working under me must be given
a fighting chance to do their best work, not by throwing money at them but
simply by being fair. The Future was a major opportunity for me but there
was no way it could succeed; success requires professional level resources.
Pay that was little better than that of a day laborer and an operating
budget
that was almost non-existent was an absurdity.
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In case anyone had some other impression.
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While it isn't possible to be sure because of the many years that have
elapsed,
it seems to be the case that my experience in Arizona in 1976 was a turning
point. Why was it that I should have had to live like that? Was that my
value to people whom until then had meant a great deal to me? Hindsight
suggests that after Arizona it was a matter of time before there would be
a breaking point.
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As it was, it took until the Autumn of 1977 before my conscience was
finally
reborn. At that point, then living in Edmunds, Washington, it seemed time
to do what I should have done the year before, or even in 1975.
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The Seattle Story
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Edmunds was a never-to-be-forgotten time, it must be reported.
There were several temporary jobs but two stand out. One was work
as a draftsman for Inco, a global nickel mining and processing company;
I created mechanical drawings of deep sea manganese extracting machines
that looked like they came from a science fiction movie. The other was
work as a cook at Alpha Chi Omega sorority near the campus of the
University of Washington. I thought I had died and gone to Heaven. All of
those chesty and attractive young women to drool over. You cannot imagine
my fantasy life at that time. I thought to myself, "you know, those
Mormons were on to something..."
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All of which dramatically simplifies the situation but this brief
description
supplies some context for the next part of the story.
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Back in the real world after those days came and went, my thoughts
started to gravitate toward events in New York and the sequel in Arizona.
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Not sure exactly why this happened when it did. I recall thinking about
Arthur
Koestler and his exposé of Communism, Darkness at Noon. During my stay
in Edmunds I read Karen de Crow's Sexist Justice; my hope was to restore
some of my faith in the political Left; reading the book was timely since
the
Equal Rights Amendment was being debated nationally that year and it had
gained 35 of the 38 votes of the states needed to for ratification.
I was a proponent of the ERA until that year.
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However, when I read de Crow's book -which is a defense of Left-wing
feminist views albeit centered on issues of Law- instead of being further
persuaded of the virtues of the ERA, the exact opposite happened.
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The entire program of the feminist Left, so to speak, stood naked before
me,
each and every logical flaw visible to my eyes. What was so ironic was the
fact
that the author was clueless that her reasoning was transparently specious.
Instead of my finding new enthusiasm for the Left a process was set in
motion
that led to my abandonment of any semblance of orthodox Leftism
-not to embrace the political Right, which has always seemed to me to be
something of a joke, but onto a path that led to identification as a
political Independent. But this is an aside...
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Conceivably listening to sermons at Trinity Lutheran Church, which I
attended
for a time, had something to do with my decision. The exact cause is
unclear;
this is the most that can be said for now. What is important is that,
finally,
I acted on an idea that had been in the back of my mind for months,
I decided to "tell the world" about Alvin Toffler's Communist past.
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Not before writing to Toffler urging him to take the initiative and do so
himself,
however. After waiting a decent amount of time, maybe two weeks without
any reply, it was time to do whatever I could, entirely on my own.
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This was when I made a ridiculous -stupid- mistake. My thinking at the
time
was that I could force his hand, and compel him to come clean. There would
be
time for that if he acted without delay.
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I wrote a letter (those were pre e-mail days) and sent copies to about
thirty
people, most of my best contacts from the time I worked for Toffler, and
from
before, and from the past year or so. It outlined much of what you are now
reading and was explicit to the effect that it was necessary for Toffler to
admit
his Communist past so that he could create a new and honest foundation for
his
career and, in the process, discuss his own disillusionment with Communism.
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I thought that he would have no choice but to do exactly that. My mistake
was
that in my letter to him explaining my action, I provided a list of those
thirty
people. The idea was that he would realize that this was not a bluff and
that
his secret was now public; he would need to "tell all."
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What actually happened, it eventually became obvious, was something
altogether different. Not immediately. For several weeks I continued to expect
some kind
of response from someone, anyone, who had been sent a letter. Slowly it
began
to sink in; no-one was going to reply. Why not? Because Toffler had sent
a hastily devised cover story to those same people "explaining"
God-knows-what, but effectively discrediting me.
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The most logical conclusion to reach was that he had invented a smear. It
took
several years after that to piece together, from clues in correspondence
with
futurists who had not been on that list, those very few who still were in
touch
but who would probably would have heard rumors, and from my reading of
miscellaneous books about intelligence, a rough picture emerged of what had
taken place. I also talked with a limited number of new friends whom I met
later,
people who might have an interest, and a few of them pointed out weaknesses
in what I was suggesting and the openings these flaws would have
presented to Mr. Toffler.
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That is, Toffler would have created a "legend," as it is known in spycraft,
a dossier about myself, which could be made to sound plausible, backed up
with manufactured "evidence" and maybe even bogus "testimony" provided by
individuals willing to speak on his behalf, people who may have owed him
favors,
or whom he paid to lie. Which is hardly all that unusual in the world of
espionage;
it happens all the time, in fact.
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It was not possible to go further with this line of thought in 1977 but in
1978
that was to change. The location was Lexington, Kentucky, where I had
relocated for reasons unrelated to anything being discussed here.
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It eventually became clear that I had been blacklisted from professional
futures work of any kind. A number of futurists who I knew as friends
until then had ceased to be friends; quite a few letters went unanswered.
Or when there was some kind of reply something was different; even
when comments were unexceptionable on the surface they clearly seemed
to be cover for asking questions that made little sense to me.
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However, there was one potentially important response that might have
made a major difference, this was a 1978 letter from the principal of the
Maslow-Toffler School of Futuristic Education, then part of Brentwood
High School on Long Island.
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About "MT," this experiment in learning existed from 1974 until 1983 and
was at least a qualified success. The trouble was that the school faced
opposition from parents of kids who were not part of MT who thought
that their offspring were being short changed because of the special
resources available at Maslow-Toffler, with its more selective
teaching staff. Eventually the criticisms became a local political issue
and the school was shut down.
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In 1978, however, MT was fully functional. And I had gotten to know
some of its staff from the time I was a visitor in 1975 and had lengthy
talks on campus. My letter to the principal also said much of what
you are presently reading.
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I was not really expecting a reply. But a reply there was, the principal
was very concerned. Moreover, because my letter had mentioned
the Freedom of Information Act and the fact that Toffler was worried
that his FBI file would be opened the principal had made an official
inquiry
as someone with a compelling interest. His school was named in honor
of Abraham Maslow and Alvin Toffler. You would think that his request
would have been sufficient to release the files. But that was not to be.
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As he explained, his request was turned down because Toffler's file was
now sealed. Apparently all access to it has been denied ever since 1978.
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What would account for that? I had no way to know for sure, but it was
entirely possible to guess -based on the fact that no file would
conceivably
be locked up unless there was a directive from a someone with considerable
rank in the government. This had to mean the director of the FBI, at that
time
a man named William H. Webster -appointed earlier that year
by President Carter.
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About Webster, I have not been able to find any information that would
cast doubts on his character. Quite the opposite, in fact. Not only was
he retained in office under Reagan, but in 1987 he was reassigned
to become director of the CIA. Why, though, would Webster seal
Toffler's file? On what grounds?
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If Webster had as much integrity as his various biographies suggest,
he certainly would have recognized that Alvin Toffler had a great deal to
hide,
or want to stay hidden, about which the public had reason to know
should anyone seek that information.
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We might think of someone more-or-less comparable to Toffler,
Howard Zinn, the historian who wrote what is a rarity among textbooks,
a best seller, entitled A People's History of the United States.
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For many years -since 1949- the FBI kept a file on Zinn, which was
finally
opened as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of
July 30, 2010 as the Wikipedia article about the professor tells us.
The 423 pages are filled with rather incriminating information about the
man.
For those who are curious and can afford a lawyer for such things,
Zinn's file is FBI File # 100-360217.
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For instance, Zinn belonged to a number of Communist front groups like the
American Labor Party. There was also an informant who said that Zinn was,
in fact, a member of the Communist Party of the United States, but whether
this was documented I do not know.
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What lends credence to the charge that he was a member of the CPUSA
are comments Zinn made on various occasions in years prior to 2010.
His biographer, Martin Duberman reported that Zinn was once asked directly
if he was a Marxist. Zinn's reply was a candid "Yes, I'm something of a
Marxist." Of course by then, ca. 2000, much had changed, the Soviet Union
no longer existed, and the professor was free to chart his own course
without
regard to a party directed from the Kremlin.
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He seems to have drifted toward Left-Anarchism in his last years. But an
admission to being a Marxist ca be taken to mean much more than the fact
that he sometimes identified himself with "bourgeois" Socialism, unless,
that is, a mental reservation was at work. In the 1990s various eastern
European Communist Parties, now independent of Moscow, rechristened
themselves as Democratic Socialists in order to compete in elections in the
newly liberated nations that had been members of the Warsaw Pact.
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Zinn denied ever having been a registered Communist but exactly what else
could he have said? As it was he admitted to membership in several
Communist front groups and at one point, in his book, Federal Bureau
of Intimidation, said he following as reported in the Wikipedia article
about the FBI: "if I found that the FBI did not have any dossier on me,
it would have been tremendously embarrassing and I wouldn't have
been able to face my friends."
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Maybe this was nothing but a joke but it immediately raises the question:
Exactly what kinds of friends would expect you to have a record with
the FBI? They would not be actual Democratic Socialists; none of the
YPSLs I ever knew had such sentiments nor did any of the adult Socialists
I met in later years. Socialist Labor Party people sometimes ended up in
jails in the early 20th century (this is a pre-Marx party once led by
Daniel de Leon) but by mid-century it was respectable and middle class.
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The only real candidates for the kind of record Zinn was referring to
boil down to two possibilities, Trotskyists of the Socialist Workers Party,
or Communists. Or -much the same thing- people associated with the
SDS, Students for a Democratic Society, of the late 1960s and the 1970s;
the SDS was pro-Communist, or most chapters were even if there were some
exceptions. Of course, some people active in the Civil Rights cause of the
MLK
era might have regarded an FBI file as meritorious but King himself
objected
strenuously and, in any case, that wasn't what Zinn was referring to.
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Why, then, did Webster order Toffler's FBI file sealed? The answer is
obvious,
isn't it? He was ordered to do so by the President of the United States.
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How, though, was that possible?
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The Art of Lying
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Why would the president of the United States have believed a story
that came to him from a writer, even one as well known as Alvin Toffler?
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The answer to the question, certainly some part of it, depends on the
"legend"
that Toffler might have created to defame my character. Of course, any
documentation would need to pass an FBI smell test and maybe even some
forensic examinations. That is where Toffler's past membership in the
Communist
Party would have been especially useful. Particularly if he still
maintained
friendships with then-current CP members. Which, thinking back to 1975
and what I remembered of some of the people who visited the office,
might well have been the case.
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Be that as it may, Communist operatives had a repertoire of skills that
could
be used for just such occasions. These are people who have advanced skills
at forgery, and access to necessary paper, inks, and everything else needed
to create any document you might like, from any date, any place in the
country.
Or any place in the world, even a renegade state like Fidel Castro's Cuba.
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And who better to write the text than someone who knew me fairly well,
knew some of my idiosyncrasies and knew odds and ends of my early life?
He also knew my writing style inasmuch as he edited several of my papers
for publication.
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Any need for photographic "evidence" was also easy enough to manufacture.
Those were years before Photoshop existed but forgers could do pretty much
the same thing simply by being careful, using special cameras, and so
forth.
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Want to put a photograph of Shepard Smith being anally penetrated by
Anderson Cooper to good use? Since no-one in the media is about to
publish such an image you can presume that 99.9999999999% of everyone
that matters would not know that the photo even existed. Replace Shepard
Smith's head with a good photograph of William Clinton's head. Or the
other way around and show Clinton doing the penetrating. Whatever turns
you on, whatever purpose you may have. No problem. Soviet forgers
were doing it before the 1950s and their American Communist proteges
of the 1970s would have known all the necessary tricks.
.
As for forging art, also not a problem. Hire a good art forger. Some are
remarkably skilled. Of course, you can't look them up in the yellow pages
but -another perk of membership in the Communist Party- you would have
all the connections necessary to locate exactly who would be best for any
particular job. And if your name is Alvin Toffler, who had been an art
critic
in the years before 1975, you surely took an interest in such matters.
Plus,
if your name is Alvin Toffler, you could afford to pay whatever exorbitant
fee a really competent forger would ask.
.
And if this was, indeed, the case, it was not lost on me that my
considerable
talents as an artist sometimes earned me $50 creating an advertisement for
a restaurant or $ 11 per hour restoring a church sign. Which is to say that
when the day of reckoning comes I will not forget any art forgers who
contributed to Alvin Toffler's machinations and would hire the best lawyers
who could be found to seek maximum legal penalties against
those criminal artists.
.
Still, none of these things would matter unless a convincing legend could
be
created, something terribly evil, a serious danger of some kind, but "just
right"
so that the legend itself is kept as secret as possible and never
published,
only circulated on a "need to know" basis, and even then only with
conditions
attached, such as legally binding agreements of confidentiality -gag
orders-
whose violation would result in imprisonment. After all, if the story of
the legend
were published the deception would come apart immediately. Because all of
the lies and falsehoods it consists of would be unequivocally refuted
with hard evidence to the contrary.
.
I cannot be certain but here is one scenario that has been suggested to me,
that
has been stitched together from clues and inference; it happens to be
completely
bogus but it is a "good story," presumably good enough to fool
US intelligence people. It goes like this:
.
"Once upon a time an innocent former youthful Marxist who had become
a famous author hired a research assistant who turned out to be a spy for
the Communist regime in Cuba. The spy learned all kinds of things from the
famous author that were privileged information relating to workings of the
US Government. This was because the famous author knew, personally,
several US Senators, a number of Congressmen, and a rouge's gallery of
federal officials. As the famous author was to discover to his great
dismay,
his files had been rifled and several sensitive letters and other documents
had been removed and from every indication had found their way to
the Dirección General de Inteligencia -the Intelligence Directorate-
of the Republic of Cuba."
.
"The nature of these papers included personal information about the private
lives of leaders of both major political parties in the United States. As
well,
there was information about the unofficial finances of various American
political figures. Other information might greatly embarrass some of
America's
closest allies. Obviously none of this should enter the public domain."
.
How far to take this is an open question. Doubtless, because so much of
this
is guesswork, there are mistakes in the preceding account. But as a
framework for discussion it has its uses.
.
Of course, that was 1977 or, in other cases for other people, no later
than
some time during 1978. A story about Cuba in either year would not have
meant what it does in 2015 with drastically changed circumstances and the
fading away of the generation of refugees from Communism that played
such an important role in Florida politics until the 1990s and even
the first few years of the 21st century.
.
It was still the Cold War; Cuba was still regarded as a sworn enemy.
Among Communist states it was seen as one of the very worst.
.
Note that there is a certain irony to observe. If Toffler thought that he
needed to concoct a legend with no time to lose, he might well have
settled upon a device that is ever popular among the spy novelist crowd,
blame the victim for the sins of the victimizer and attribute the virtues
of
the victim to the perpetrator of the crime. Switcheroo, in other words.
And it must be noted that any number of things I had said about myself
were made to order as a cover story for Toffler; all that was necessary
was to transfer his Communist past to me and make it stick.
.
Toffler knew that I have almost zero interest in Cuba, for example.
Basically
in most respects, I could care less even if, sure, like most Americans,
I despise Castro and have long hoped for his overthrow. But my knowledge
base for Latin America is limited; except for Brazil, which I have kept
tabs on
periodically, and, only since 2014, Chile, the region is outside of my
purview.
.
What I am is an Asia enthusiast with intense interest in such subjects as
Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and so forth, with specialities like
Zoroastrian
history and Tibetan art. Since 1975. I certainly cannot compete with
serious
scholars of these specialities, but my knowledge is decent enough. I have
added scholarly level knowledge of ancient Mesopotamian history and have
become an 'honest-to-God' scholar of the Bible and related subject matter
in the years since 1975 but discussion of these disciplines would add too
much complexity to this narrative so allow me to gloss over those kinds
of issues.
.
For Toffler's purposes an accusation about Cuba would blindside me
completely. He could make up anything he wanted and I would not even
be able to guess.
.
My interests in things of the Orient would not be much of a problem
since surely there are any number of Cubans or Cuban sympathizers
who have vaguely similar sentiments, and so what? This does overlook
my expertise in Asian subject matter, but few people "out there" would
have the background to judge the amount of time it takes to gain such
knowledge and the preoccupation that it presumes. Certainly the stuffed
shirts in government would be clueless, and that would have
counted the most.
.
In effect, Toffler had carte blanche to lie at will.
.
Moreover use of Cuba as the center of a legend had another advantage
besides the blank slate it gave Toffler to construct a sinister legend
about me.
Although as late as 1975 I still held views about homosexuality that
weren't
different than those of leftist Democrats, which remained basically the
case
into 1976, by 1977 the transition to vehement opposition to homosexuals
and contempt for homosexuality was pretty much complete. I regard same-sex
sexuality and the values it presupposes and generates as utterly depraved,
as a mental illness -a psychopathology- which is disgusting beyond
belief,
and at some point I let Toffler know about my changed outlook.
.
Briefly, in case some readers assume that this simply has to mean
'conversion'
to views of the Neanderthal Right, let me correct that kind of impression
immediately. My argument is based on intense research in the literature
of psychoanalysis, on books written by members or former members
of the American Psychiatric Association disillusioned about the takeover
of the APA by homosexual activists and their supporters in the early 70s,
and by digging into the published record to try and understand the debate
that once raged among psychology professionals about the reclassification
of homosexuality as less than an illness, a reclassification that all
relevant
evidence tells me was a political decision at time of massive unrest
sparked
by the Viet Nam war and the congruence of anti-war protest with events
of the Civil Rights movement.
.
Homosexual militants saw all of that as an opportunity like nothing else
to remake themselves as champions of a new kind of Civil Rights cause.
Then, through intimidation, use of disruptions, and sporadic violence,
coupled with work done by 'closeted' homosexuals within psychology
organizations, they were able to pressure enough psychiatrists to revise
the DSM in 1973, the first of several revisions that, by the late 1990s,
had effectively 'normalized' a pathology.
.
Not that most people who read this essay have any idea about such things.
Very few are remotely well-informed on the issue. Most people don't know
what they are talking about when discussing homosexuality, Right-wingers
as well as Leftists, and hardly any psychology professionals are the
least
competent in the political arena, but things are the way they are, not what
they should be. However, I am not about to allow the fact that the
overwhelming majority of Americans are grossly ignorant on this subject
have the least impact on my conclusions.
.
Homosexuality is a sickness, and to the extent that religious metaphor is
appropriate in characterizing such morbid behavior and warped values,
it is Satanic and deserving the strongest possible enmity. Nothing about
it
is in any way justifiable and anyone who thinks otherwise has been duped
and now takes pride in their ignorance and stupidity.
.
So that you will know -and not falsely assume one damned thing about
my views on the subject. There is, needless to say, a lot more to say
about this issue. I have written two unpublished scholarly books
about homosexual psychopathology and actually have serious
understanding of the entire controversy. Anyone who thinks that he
or she knows 10% of what I know, with the exception of
various medical professionals, would be flat out wrong.
.
The point is that the Castro regime in Cuba had no use for homosexuals.
Indeed, homosexuality was a criminal offense. This was congruent with
policy in the USSR and Communist China at the time Those found guilty
were sent to labor camps for lengthy sentences. This would change in the
1990s, but in 1977-1978 homosexuality was regarded as loathsome
and was punishable by law.
.
This was made to order for Toffler's purposes it can be surmised.
Why "of course," what other attitude would an agent for Communist
Cuba have? The Cuban connection accounts for everything.
.
Even though the whole Cuban story was a lie.
.
Actually my views have no such source, they were arrived at independently
and, in any case, are congruent with the views of a host of psychology
professionals of the 20th century including Sigmund Freud in his
Introductory
Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Anna Freud (his daughter and a distinguished
psychoanalyst in her own right), Irving Bieber, Charles Socarides, Karen
Honey
( hor-nye), Erich Fromm (that Erich Fromm, the Democratic Socialist
associated
with Norman Thomas), Abram Kardiner, Sandor Rado, and still others.
For that matter, Abraham Maslow would be on this list except that late
in his life, in about 1970 or 1971, he went off the rails and caved in
to homosexual pressures to reclassify the disease.
.
What Toffler could count on was the ignorance of decision makers in federal
government, probably none of whom had any idea of the history of psychology
or psychoanalysis in the United States, and he could depend on the
ignorance
of almost everyone else as a matter of course.
.
What else the Cuba part of the legend might have been useful for I cannot
say,
but it also would have "sounded right" because of my last name. "Rojas,"
needless to say, is Spanish. Actually, there also are a small number of
Rojas
surnames in Portuguese language nations like Brazil, Angola, and
Mozambique,
plus Portugal itself, but that consideration can slide. Rojas is nearly a
100%
Spanish phenomenon. Therefore I "naturally" have an affinity for
Spanish speaking Latin America in general and Cuba in particular.
Or so Toffler could insist.
.
There is one little problem with this construction, however. In my case the
name derives from my step father, who was Filipino. In case you are
unsure of where the Philippine Islands are located, let me assure you
that the Republic of the Philippines is found in Asia, next to Indonesia,
not far from Taiwan, at the westernmost limits of the Pacific Ocean.
.
This, it should be obvious, goes a long way toward explaining my interests
in Asian religion, the arts of Asia, and Asian history. And it explains
why,
despite a Spanish surname, I'm just not that concerned about Latin America.
What I am concerned about is the Far East.
.
And Europe, since genetically my background is German and Polish,
But that is another story which is pretty much beside the point for this
paper.
.
Any good legend can have multiple uses and, or so I have reason to surmise.
Several "attachments" may have been added to the original version of 1975.
But, while I am not privy to such addenda, let me assure you that I have
not
beaten up two different women in Arizona, not even one, do not have a
drug problem, seldom drink alcohol, and, sad to say, have never seduced
a beautiful girl of sixteen with nice breasts.
.
Very sad to say, since there had been a young woman of that description
once upon a time for whom I had high hopes.
.
.
After 1979 the pattern was set with only minor variations on a theme
-although
two years, 1984 and 1986, should have been very different, with the story
breaking into the news. This will also be explained in the chapters ahead.
.
.
I certainly tried to fight back when it became obvious that my chances of
breaking the story of Toffler's Communist past on ite merits would be
highly unlikely. But these other efforts also came to naught.
.
.
The Post-Modern, Post-modernist decade
.
This is a good place to discuss my decade long 'art show.' Although since
this, too, is complicated and deserves its own chapter, just some fairly
short
comments will be made here.
.
My reasoning was that surely fellow artists -people who are known for
independent-mindedness and nonconformism, who pride themselves on
recognizing talent for what it is, would respond when seeing completely
original graphic art that was bound to cause controversy. Artists also
thrive on controversy.
.
Not that there necessarily would be immediate reaction; artists seldom have
access to printing presses or TV stations, but in due course -since one
artist knows another who knows someone else, and so forth. What I needed
to do was produce quality art with a provocative message. This I set out
to do
early in the 1980s and did not cease such efforts until 1987 -actually
there
were a few exceptions after that year, but in time it all came to and end.
.
What were these drawings like?
.
Many were the result of visual themes I had explored for two digest-size
magazines I also was editor for in Arizona, Sex Guide for Singles and
Sex Guide for Couples, by then working entirely alone. A word of
explanation is called for...
.
While waiting to see what kind of sales The Future might produce -it was
intended to be a monthly and not all sales outlets received copies at
the same time so there was a 'window' of about two months to evaluate
everything- Mr Bernard asked if I would be interested in another project
he had thought about. This was the set of two digest magazines.
.
The pay was just as miserly as before but it was enough of a life raft to
continue in publications in the hope, remote or not, that The Future might
survive and there would be another chance to do it much better.
.
The Sex Guides were fun to work on, there was a good deal of erotic art
to create, not much text to write, and a lot of girlie pictures to look at.
I did my best even though figure drawing is my greatest weakness as
an artist -to draw a plausible person takes twice the work for me as
it would for an artist who specializes in the human form. As the weeks
passed there were dozens of drawings and the little magazines began
to take shape. And I did research at the Arizona State University
library, which has a nice collection of erotic art books or books on
Asian or Mid East or historic European art that include erotica.
.
One of my discoveries at ASU were the two books in its collection
-the only two that had ever been published on the topic- on Dosojin art
of Japan. This refers to rural mostly Shinto villages which honor a custom
of the distant past, namely, creating giant size wood and straw
'sculptures'
of the phallus. Each year at the fertility celebrations these objets
d'art are
then paraded through each local community amidst much glee and then are
burned in a huge bonfire. Associated with these dosojin a number of folk
crafts
thrive, like clay models of the same, just right for a table top, sometimes
elaborately painted or even dressed up in clothing that more-or-less
resembles the garments for dolls.
.
As far as I knew this was a unique art and I decided to make the most of
it.
Later I would discover roughly similar types of art from several other
cultures
but dosojin was still the best, most thought through, and colorful. Hence
some of my art during the 1980s consists of elaborate phallus designs.
Each had the same intent as those created in Japan: Advertising meant
to persuade fertile women to have a good time. And all of my dosojin art
was dedicated to women, all of it, 100%. Sometimes a drawing would be
dedicated to a beauty pageant winner, to an attractive actress, to a girl
who I found attractive working at a local restaurant, and some were
dedicate to whole sororities. That was one theme in my the art of the 80s.
.
There were a great many departures from conventional art but it must be
admitted that creating exotic decorative Valentines was an especially
worthwhile thing to do. These were also dedicated to various attractive
young women, usually to one special woman, like Mary Hatchett a
New Mexico TV news caster, but others might commemorate,
say, Pi Beta Phi sorority, or other such establishments. In any case,
all such art had dosojin intent, trying to lure young women.
.
Finally, Mental Money should be mentioned. These were drawings that
represented US currency, or sometimes the currency of other nations, with
designs borrowed freely from many historical periods. Each drawing was
about the size of a dollar bill and was very complex; in the center would
be
an image of a sweet young thing -mostly seen from the neck down, nude,
and identified as Miss So-and-So, a beauty queen or hot babe in the news
or the like. Again, all this art without exception, had the intent of,
shall we say, amusing the ladies.
.
All of it, everything with sexual purpose was heterosexual, and all of such
art
represented attractive women. There were no grotesque women depicted
as sex objects, no women well past child-bearing years, no pre-pubescent
girls, no girls not at least in their teens, in so many words, what any
normal
man would think is good and desirable.
.
There were also collages of many descriptions, a number of cartoons were
reworked (usually by replacing the words in balloons with different
dialogue),
fancy signs that used nothing but lettering, photos that were added to in
various ways, etc, essentially a gallery showing on the installment plan.
.
Now and then a very negative theme was depicted to express anger at
something that I greatly disliked, but at most 5% of my art had this
kind of character. Also, early in the 1980s, there were five drawings
that, years later, seemed to me to be in bad taste about which I regretted
ever drawing, which I have since disowned. But they, too, to the extent
they were sexual, were entirely heterosexual.
.
This pretty well describes my repertoire although there were so many
drawings
those years that I simply cannot think of each and every one with any
clarity.
The total was well into the hundreds of drawings, maybe over a thousand.
But make no mistake about it, not one showed unattractive women, not one
showed little girls, none depicted women of retirement-home age, etc.
All that had any positive-in-nature sexual intent were addressed to women,
usually in their late teens, 20s, or early 30s. Which is to say that any
art
with sexual intent that is purported to be my creations that does not match
these parameters is not my work. There are no exceptions. None at all.
.
In almost all cases the art was Xeroxed and sent in mass mailings; the
number
could be as few as twenty or so, and sometimes past 100; typically the
number
was about 30, or maybe 50. Basically, that was all I ever could afford.
.
Finally, when it became clear that all this effort had been unable to
generate
a news story, I phased it out. And that was the prime objective, "raising
hell,"
igniting controversy, causing a sensation in the art world that would spill
over
into the realm of hard news. That never happened and I gradually devised
other strategies and, you don't need to conjecture, I got on with my life
and
cultivated my scholarly interests because I am a scholar and enjoy
scholarship.
.
Yet the story of Alvin Toffler's Communist past was never forgotten.
.
.
.
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