The right lost the culture war because it didn't show up and fight.
Stories and art are the DNA of culture. They are how civilizations transmit their values.
But at some point, perhaps because artists and storytellers needs access to a full range of human emotions to tell compelling stories, a whole bunch of right wing dudes decided that art was for sissies and homos, and they wanted nothing whatsoever to do with it.
They wouldn't make it, they wouldn't read it, they wouldn't buy it, they wouldn't sponsor it, they wouldn't even hang out with people who did.
They would do manly things, like go fight forever wars for Boeing, Lockheed, and Halliburton stockholders.
Well, this may be all well and good, and you don't get cooties from watching Disney flicks with your wife, but once the left has marched over all the ground you ceded, taking over art entirely with messages that can be as ridiculous as they please, because they are unopposed...
After storytelling is entirely a left wing profession, and what few right-wingers who willing to brave your scorn are entirely shut out of your civilization's sources of artistic support...
After you haven't read anything but car repair manuals and the sports page for twenty years...
What happens to your kids?
They're not going to stop reading stories, or listening to them, or watching them.
They will read the stories written by people who hate you. And they will teach your kids to hate you. And everything you stand for.
If you don't believe me, send them to a liberal arts college. See what happens. Just don't blame me for what happened when you didn't listen.
It was a transformative moment in my life when I heard @scrowder dismiss the whole concept of fiction, live and on the air.
"Tell meeee a sto-reee, Daddy!" he mocked, in a singsong tone, boasting that he didn't read fiction as if this were something to be proud of.
And my thought was "these morons deserve to lose".
It was as if he had forgotten that the whole point of conservative values is to be daddy, and to tell your children a story, so they will carry on what your ancestors started and you continued.
Without stories from daddy, your entire life's work is pointless. Because the next generation will not understand what it's for, won't care what it's for, and they will break it up for kindling, and no one will remember your name.
This isn't about Crowder in particular. The only original idea he ever had was "how to make money by losing a political struggle".
What it's about is this idea that stories are unimportant, that art is for troons and limpwrists, and that it came from somewhere before it entered his head.
And wherever that place was, conservatives need to track the monster back to its den there, and beat it to death with miniature replica of a Greek statue of Poseidon.
Because unless we get this poison out of our system, nothing Trump is doing will last, or matter, in the long run.
You need art to transmit your values.
Art requires effort.
Effort costs money.
The left understands this.
That's why they spent three decades making you their bitch.
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Stories and art are the DNA of culture. They are how civilizations transmit their values.
But at some point, perhaps because artists and storytellers needs access to a full range of human emotions to tell compelling stories, a whole bunch of right wing dudes decided that art was for sissies and homos, and they wanted nothing whatsoever to do with it.
They wouldn't make it, they wouldn't read it, they wouldn't buy it, they wouldn't sponsor it, they wouldn't even hang out with people who did.
They would do manly things, like go fight forever wars for Boeing, Lockheed, and Halliburton stockholders.
Well, this may be all well and good, and you don't get cooties from watching Disney flicks with your wife, but once the left has marched over all the ground you ceded, taking over art entirely with messages that can be as ridiculous as they please, because they are unopposed...
After storytelling is entirely a left wing profession, and what few right-wingers who willing to brave your scorn are entirely shut out of your civilization's sources of artistic support...
After you haven't read anything but car repair manuals and the sports page for twenty years...
What happens to your kids?
They're not going to stop reading stories, or listening to them, or watching them.
They will read the stories written by people who hate you. And they will teach your kids to hate you. And everything you stand for.
If you don't believe me, send them to a liberal arts college. See what happens. Just don't blame me for what happened when you didn't listen.
It was a transformative moment in my life when I heard @scrowder dismiss the whole concept of fiction, live and on the air.
"Tell meeee a sto-reee, Daddy!" he mocked, in a singsong tone, boasting that he didn't read fiction as if this were something to be proud of.
And my thought was "these morons deserve to lose".
It was as if he had forgotten that the whole point of conservative values is to be daddy, and to tell your children a story, so they will carry on what your ancestors started and you continued.
Without stories from daddy, your entire life's work is pointless. Because the next generation will not understand what it's for, won't care what it's for, and they will break it up for kindling, and no one will remember your name.
This isn't about Crowder in particular. The only original idea he ever had was "how to make money by losing a political struggle".
What it's about is this idea that stories are unimportant, that art is for troons and limpwrists, and that it came from somewhere before it entered his head.
And wherever that place was, conservatives need to track the monster back to its den there, and beat it to death with miniature replica of a Greek statue of Poseidon.
Because unless we get this poison out of our system, nothing Trump is doing will last, or matter, in the long run.
You need art to transmit your values.
Art requires effort.
Effort costs money.
The left understands this.
That's why they spent three decades making you their bitch.
https://xcancel.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1890800347486060881#m
Fiction contains many models about very real things. How many can actually appreciate that fact?
>How many can actually appreciate that fact?
Right-wingers certainly fucking don't.
And until they do, they're going to keep losing. Like OP states, nothing trump and elon are doing right now is going to matter in even a single generation so long as conservatards consider art the domain of little girls and manchildren who won't do "real work".
Right-wingers certainly fucking don't.
And until they do, they're going to keep losing. Like OP states, nothing trump and elon are doing right now is going to matter in even a single generation so long as conservatards consider art the domain of little girls and manchildren who won't do "real work".
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@cowanon @JeffTheJoker our reality has been altered thru time edited over and over for power and control of the population,how far back have they gone to ensure victory over us,I think they created America itself thru time travel for their needs,what is the end goal they keep you enslaved in your flesh prison so demons can feed on your spirit and eventually your soul,the demonic forces live between the beginning and the end they can't stop the end they use cult control to edit your reality
@JeffTheJoker @cowanon I remember being told Mandela died in prison in 1984 there are other things that make me think Abraham Lincoln was a time travel agent editing,every rabbit hole I pursue leads to more crumbs proving that this black magic worm hole technology or means to shift thru time or transfer information thru time is being used by the cult they are one step ahead always and how because they have a high IQ and money or because of prophecy which is knowledge of the future
It makes me wonder if Creation itself isn't a wholistic living organism with rules and parameters that define the nature of that organism. I've even wondered if it has a "consciousness", and if so, could this be mapped out somehow, with the codification of exactly what it is being worked out in reverse?
God is obvious.
you ever read Azimov?
No.. I've intended to, but haven't yet. I am really only familiar with his rules of robotics.
if I can make a suggestion: Foundation series.
Okay.... I'll look into it. I'm always wanting to expand my library. Thanks for the suggestion.
If you read it, you will be pleased and changed. No homo
Nope.... gotta deep six the homo, but I'll definitely take precautions nonetheless in view of Asimov's jewishness.
sure sure. I hear you. Which is an argument against 'prime directive'. Or belief therein.
@JeffTheJoker @cowanon @Tadg_macNuadat They have to revel truths in movies and sci Fi for the deception to work and since Russian Jews from the 19th century really seemed to be plugged into the cult he sounds like a source
i've always felt that Asimov was an interesting writer. Not once did I think he had access to or was revealing truth. Like Stephen King.
isn't that rules of sci-fi?
I always understood it as something of a "prime directive" as Asimov saw it within that context.
I am often off-base. But what Asimov said is sci-fi. There isn't a prime directive. There would be if robotics was funded for humanity. But that isn't the course we are on.
I esteem his sayings on robotics as more philosophical, using sci-fi as a model.
...so no prime directive then
No, something analogous to that. That was my intention. I wasn't intending to make that a mirror reflection of the prime directive, as that wouldn't be accurate, but mostly as a set of laws governing a specific subject. The prime directive is similar to this, but concerns a different matter.
but you've not read it? Bit confused. You have an opinion of the text separated from reading the text.
No.... I've never read it. I am recalling from memory, what I saw on the science channel in the series "prophets of science fiction."
recalling what from memory? I just don't understand. The absolute drama of Asimov is worth it. That is all I am saying.
I do not possess any of Asimov's writings.
nor do I. I borrowed from the library 40 years ago.
My local library doesn't carry Asimov's works. I have to search for them online.
My perspective is Californian. If my library doesn't have a book they request it from other libraries. But I have no clue to other places.
Many of the books I own are from Californian libraries..Got quite a few from Sacramento, also San Diego.
Build the library.
Currently working on that.... I'll need to build a new building soon. Running out of room in my house. 🤔
Asimov is worth reading. The Foundation series.
As we have been communicating, I've already added that series to my list on thriftbooks.... I'll be looking for it elsewhere too.
respect.
Once the book is in your mind you don't need the paper copy. But you need the paper copy to get the book in your mind. imo anyway
I've encountered this theory before in classic sci-fi literature....I seem to recall it was in a Jules Verne novel about an airship, but my memory is a little dim presently.