Was the sexual revolution a government psy-op? – UnHerd

This history is important not least for helping us to see that the century-long colonisation of ordinary people s moral judgment by psychology, dating from the rise of the social worker in the 19th century, and more broadly the idea that common sense should defer to expertise located in a scientific clerisy, got a big boost from the psycho-sexual turn that anti-fascist politics took after the Second World War. Initiatives by the federal government spawned a wider apparatus of psychological adjustment, located in schools (above all, sex education), HR departments and any institution devoted to forming and policing character according to the priorities of a vanguardist minority. Given mid-century America s institutional investment in fighting fascism, it became invested also in construing the world in such a way as to justify that investment. The world has ever since been saturated with something like fascism, however invisible it may appear to most people especially after our grandfathers had defeated the real thing on the battlefields of Europe.

via unherd.com

A long piece but good. Basically, European professors came here after WW2 and really messed with our heads.