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“The halcyon days of cultural theory lasted until about 1980” – then there was the “victory of the radical right.” (2003, Terry Eagleton, After Theory) This statement is absolutely fallacious, in the 1980’s and beyond, the agenda of the left was taught in the academy.  Ronald Reagan was president, then Bush, but this did not stop the academy from teaching theory, along with many other social concerns . . . . . theory and critical thought did not disappear, but rather flourished, even informing the theologies that were taught in Seminaries.  The discussion of the rights of many continued into the 1990’s and beyond. Postmodernism and posttruth ruled the textbooks, and the postcolonial addressed much that had happened in South East Asia and the Middle East.  No one was left unaware of the issues that the left was concerned with; these concerns permeated culture just as they do today.  There is a true hegemony; one only needs to remove the scales that cover their eyes to see the truth about the matter.  That which inhibits this vision is how drenched one is in the culture of the day.  The adage is "one cannot see one's own eyes, nor kiss one's own lips; being in the present culture is like being a fish in water, which is unable to see the water it is in.  Nothing new about these adages, but quite salient to our times.    

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