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Alvin Toffler is an 83 year old new-age Jewish "futurist", and Newt Gingrich's long-time mentor. For decades, Gingrich has been mesmerized by both Alvin and Heidi Toffler and has been a zealous advocate of their work; promoting them since the early 1970s. Once his idol's views become more well known to conservatives, Gingrich will surely try to discount the relevance of them; but LibertyFight.com has recently uncovered a 2006 interview of Toffler by Gingrich himself, in which the paunchy presidential wanna-be comes across as a complete new-age fruitcake, fawning over the old man like a smitten schoolgirl.
In the 54 minute interview, 'After Words with Alvin Toffler' which aired on C-SPAN May 21, 2006, and is still available online, [also here] Gingrich begins by admitting that he and Al Gore were in the same group. Later in the interview, Gingrich admits that Toffler's radical societal changes must be implemented by government institutions. Let's take a look at what Alvin Toffler advocates.
When Newt Gingrich was set to become Speaker of the House in 1994 after Republicans won a majority in Congress, he issued a "required reading" list of eight books which he wanted all members of Congress to read. The U.S. Constitution was not listed among Gingrich's highly lauded suggestions. What did appear though, was a book by new-age radical Alvin Toffler entitled THE THIRD WAVE.
In Chapter 28, the final chapter of The Third Wave entitled "Twenty-first Century Democracy", Toffler began with a letter "To the Founding Parents". In it, Toffler called for the death of the American Constitutional system which the founders created. The chapter read, in part,
"For the system of government you fashioned, including the very princplies on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented - a democracy for the twenty-first century..."
"...For this wisdom, above all, I thank Mr. Jefferson, who helped create the system that served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced."
In the 2006 C-SPAN BookTV episode, Gingrich begins the program expressing that it's a "personal thrill" to spend an hour talking with Toffler, explaining Toffler offered an"extraorinarily important contribution" to thinking in the world, referring to people "whose lives were changed" by his work.
They explain how Newt met and started working with the Tofflers while he was a professor at West Georgia State College in the early 70's. In 1975 they went to Capital Hill to speak with congress about the future. Newt points out that as a young assistant professor, "it was a big deal to come to Washington to be part of that kind of group. And I think coming out of that there was a caucus of the future that people tend to forget both Al Gore and I belonged to at one point."
[Article continues here: http://libertyfight.com/articles/2012/newt_the_new-age_fruitcake.html
