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.
https://xcancel.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1890800347486060881#m
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".
@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
>I think they created America itself thru time travel for their needs
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.
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.
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.
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@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.
