““On that basis, I recently tried to interest a troubled young woman of my acquaintance with Peale’s work, as a substitute for recommending Neville, thinking that his churchiness would appeal (!) to her, since she still retained from childhood a love of the Episcopal church and its rituals. She handed the book back with some disgust: “No, he was satirized by Tom Lehrer.” Those who doubt the power of cultural artifacts to control minds should reflect on the lingering power of one line in a satirical song from 50 years ago; “the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule“– Saul Alinsky.””
![“The article is about what you’d expect: one third contempt for people who take religion seriously (except as a cudgel to shame conservatives), one third contempt for people who would take this hokey cult in particular seriously, and one third contempt for Trump as a hypocrite anyway.[7]” quote by James J. O'Meara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13f/james-j-o-meara-47694_quote_the-article-is-about-what-you-d-expect-o_783690.jpg)
![“it seems that the original film is the best clue to what happened, as Steve Sailer notes that President Trump is like the emergence of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man as The Destroyer at the end of Ghostbusters, except [instead of] one guy conjuring up the thought in his head, most of our cultural…” quote by James J. O'Meara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1fd/james-j-o-meara-47694_fear_it-seems-that-the-original-film-is-the-b_1235745.jpg)
