Dear Avira,
Your last paragraph is incomprehensible to me.
“MO was born” When?
“haskalah” What does that word connotate to you?
“It’s leaders” Who?
“including” Two presidents of YU. What does that have to do with MO at large?
“Revel” You must mean that he was a talmid of Telshe. But still, he was a man of stubbornly independent thoughts and methods. Not really under any outside influence.
“Belkin” was big on the greek classics. And completely not involved in day to day leadership of anything besides one yeshiva/college.
“Their attitudes” What do these two have in common?
“taken straight from” Because they read their works?
“maskilim” Any specific names?
“believed” Again, boiling down to itty bitty belief. Who knows what anybody really believes? [Besides for you. Asking for a friend.]
Postscript: If MO means the crowd that you grew up with, and the YV is just the yeshiva that gained from and align yourself with, I would agree with you. The fact is that there is much, much, more. And if we were to ask the MO communities that are failing (Just those that cling to observance. Privately face to face.) they would justify their existence on you and others that went on to yeshiva and made it. Where you in YU and are just annoyed about it? Because your not making any point or much sense besides that.