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After World War II, creative writing programs taught that good literature required, “Sensations, not doctrines; experiences, not dogmas; memories, not philosophies.”³ These departments sought to discourage abstract thoughts about systemic social issues and instead focus on the problems of the individual. This movement was spearheaded by Paul Engle, director of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He solicited funds from the Farfield Foundation, which was a front for the Center for Cultural Freedom. In exchange for these donations, he advanced the individualist Western values the CIA wanted to see.
✏️ CIA funds, funneled thru this Farfield Foundation (which by the way also provided money to get american abstract art propaganda all around europe), went into creative writing programs that shifted cultural values away from systemic social issues and towards individual issues.
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They funded the individualist western value.
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