Coan stirred up a great public outcry against immoral art. He then turned his talents to spreading alarm about the imminent communist takeover of the United States. In one of his books, The Coming Peril, Coan warned that socialism would ruin society by encouraging free love and giving women the right to vote. For Coan, the most "monstrously immoral" threat was that socialism might permit white women to consort with men of other races:
I just discovered this interesting blog where the writer digresses with examples and history about the power of illustrations and the consequences on human morality. Certainly worth the trip by clicking here
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Ahhh...the good old days.
What a contrast though when I attended the great Matisse Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1995, with rows of clean-cut Americans with earpiece narration religiously drinking it all in. Now it seems we are surprise by the narrow-mindedness of the lest enlightened hordes from the Middle-East. We had a pretty sordid past. Let them have theirs. We know that they also have a path to progress that does not require us to forcibly educate them. It's a natural process whereby Jesus or Allah are smoothly replaced by the arts, maths and science...and good naturally occuring taste for the calm and the beautiful.
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