Do Americans Know About the Frankfurt School? The Ideological Machine Behind the Movie Screen
(This is Part II of II of our look at the Frankfurt School. Read Part I: Do Americans Know About the Frankfurt School? The Cultural Engine Behind the Collapse here.
The Frankfurt School’s philosophy was never about honest debate—it was a deliberate project to disrupt Christian civilization, specifically its moral and cultural underpinnings. What they saw as oppressive social structures in religion, family, and traditional values had to be dismantled.
And to do that, since they didn’t have actual truth on their side, they needed to control the narratives that people consumed on a daily basis.
Control the story. Control the lie. Manipulate the parameters of discourse itself, ensuring that their subversive ideas become entrenched without anyone ever realizing they are being duped into oblivion.
This is where the whole “racist” and “bigot” and “xenophobe” and other mEaN nAmEs thing comes from. It stifles dissent. It stifles discussion.
It eliminates the unearthing of the beast.
This strategy is particularly powerful in the entertainment industry, where actors, producers, and directors often appear to operate autonomously, while in reality, they are guided by larger financial and ideological forces, often due to high-level occult entanglements, far beyond mere cosmetic “upgrades.” Just as the Frankfurt School theorists used “critical theory” to undermine traditional beliefs, today’s entertainment executives use their platforms to normalize radical ideas, creating a mass-produced illusion of societal progress.
This deception is still alive and well–no matter what Trump does. Sure it’s great we’re “winning” on some policy debates concerning boys and girls in bathrooms and gas prices are down, but really, has much changed in the way of morals in our society?
That is part of the design–small victories, scraps at the table, to give us false hope.
So if the Frankfurt School planted the seeds, who watered them?
Who built the media scaffolding, fashioned the pipelines of global funding, and made sure the right puppets–including both on the controlled right and unhinged left–had microphones while the rest–the authentic truth bearers–were demonetized, deplatformed, disposed of entirely in a great communistic sweep?
The answer lies not just in ideology as so many of us have been conditioned to believe, even by the Church for decades.
—but in infrastructure.
The Church, once upon a time, was steadfast in its teaching–about ringing the bells on all of this.
The lies don’t perpetuate themselves. They need supply lines. They need protection. They need plausible cover stories that even the perpetrators can repeat to themselves in the mirror.
Plausible deniability plays a crucial role in the entertainment industry’s continued subversion of culture. As explored last Friday, this concept allows the elites orchestrating the plan to avoid direct accountability. They can always point to the “free market” of ideas, to the notion of artistic expression, or to individual choice, or even to “democracy,” as cover for their influence over what is produced and consumed. It allows them to push their agenda without facing real consequences, using fronts like “Democrats” or “RINOs” or even “CIA” to hide. But the reality is that Hollywood is not just an industry at the random mercy of the winds—it is the organized front line of an ideological war.
And it still is because of its calcified, ongoing influence, despite the tanking at the box office.
Plausible deniability isn’t just a legal strategy—it’s the devil’s camouflage. Like any mafia, the public never sees the true engine behind the curtain, the wizards pulling the strings, only the distractions of glitz and glamour, of Ray-Bans and runways, of terms and titles that conceal the tyrants below. It’s how sin masquerades as liberation, how subversion walks in through the front door dressed in the language of “rights” and “reform.” It’s how entire institutions—schools, non-government organizations, churches, courts, everything—become enforcement tentacles of spiritual inversion while still being sold to the public as the natural progress of human civilization. And even behind them is the influence of the fake world of Hollywood–because we’ve been poisoned by the pretty pictures and slithering sounds.
In other words, we’ve been conditioned to seek out truth inside a spectacle that isn’t even real.
If you know how to look for the pattern—to really look—you’ll see the same fingerprints on the Epstein operation, the COVID psyop, the ActBlue laundering schemes, the Ukraine biolabs, the climate hoax, the Clinton Foundation, and even the Catholic Church’s ideological drift, all things I’ve been establishing in my work over the years–and I haven’t even listed the half of them here. These are not disparate scandals explored at random in each daily Hayride post. They’re nodes in a network we’re working to unpack with you.
They are what it looks like when demonic patience meets technocratic planning. This week’s body of work provides more context:
Trump can’t do it all, my friends. It takes us–all of us. This is one reason I preach against Trump worship so much–not because I’m a “Trump-hating liberal” (how can that possibly be the interpretation of any of my work?)–but because Trump won’t be here forever.
And if he is then we really got problems.
The two papal encyclicals I discussed this week, Vigilanti Cura and Miranda Prorsus, serve as counterpoints to the Frankfurt School’s subversion–and they give us more words than only the ones Trump can provide on the strictly political front. These documents, written by Pius XI and Pius XII respectively, warned against the dangers of mass media and entertainment. They offered prophetic warnings about the destructive effects of secularism. They recognized that media could be a tool for either good or evil—and when used to distort truth and morality, would be a most diabolical darkness that no one would see destroying them. Indeed, we now see those predictions being fulfilled for decades now, as Hollywood continues to push the religion of individualism, sexual liberation, and anti-Christianity.
At the expense of sounding self-referential, I know all of this because I allowed it to happen to myself. This isn’t self-reference—it’s confession. I say it often because fixing this requires all of us looking in the mirror.
The pieces I’ve put out over the last week, and littered throughout my years-long catalogue, reveal an undeniable truth: the cultural decay we are witnessing is no accident. It’s a well-orchestrated operation, led by networks of power and influence, designed to reshape society in its own image. The Frankfurt School’s vision of a society detached from its roots, adrift in a sea of shallow distractions and ideological subversion, was just a continuation of the rot many popes and kings had warned about over the centuries–and it has been realized.
This isn’t about blaming one group or another—it’s about understanding that the networks driving this cultural erosion have names, they have histories, and they operate with a clear agenda. By recognizing their influence and understanding their methods, not to mention studying what Christ says about them, we can begin to see the true battle for our culture and take steps to reclaim it–including an authentic acceptance and ongoing repentance of our role in it.
It’s time to recognize that the lights are on, the cameras are rolling, and we are not extras in a movie to escape reality, but lead players in a battle for Reality Himself. The question is, will we keep feeding on illusions of engineered spectacle, or will we repent—and rebuild the rightly ordered Christian civilization our Messiah commanded?
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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
