Dissident creators’ invisibility to the movers and shakers in Conservative circles has hobbled right-wing advances in the culture war for decades. “Culture War” is frankly inaccurate, since a war presumes more than one side fighting. The wholesale capture of Western institutions by the Death Cult has been a cultural rout.
Conservatives’ hidebound overreliance on using facts and logic against an enemy that wholly embraces rhetoric and propaganda – increasingly to the exclusion of reason – has ceded all legacy institutions to delusional fanatics.
Have a look at the code of conduct adopted adopted by one of the Cult’s yearly conclaves. It’s a mad tea party in a gulag. That anyone is expected to think a gathering of sane human beings could be governed by such nebulous, arbitrary, contradictory, and paranoid dictates is a humiliation ritual in itself.
Therein lies a fascinating paradox at the heart of the Death Cult. Their rejection of truth makes them quite good at infiltrating and subverting organizations. Relying entirely on emotional appeals lets them attack the Right’s blind spot.
The Cult’s problem is that reason is how you make sure your beliefs jibe with reality. The same fanaticism that enables their conquest also ensures their utter incompetence at running the institutions they conquer.
This is why every company, brand, club, and school co-opted by the Death Cult is rapidly reduced to a hollowed-out mockery of its former glory. A convention where Boomers with poor hygiene used to get together and talk about Heinlein has now been warped into a convocation of Thulsa Doom’s snake cult. Common-sense rules about leaving an area like you found it and not letting arguments about FTL travel devolve into fistfights have given way to esoteric, amoeba-like precepts intelligible only to Cult insiders.
Functional, cohesive organizations have no need of such granular micromanaging. Here’s the web site for Comiket, Japan’s largest anime convention. They’ve got lots of Covid precautions this year, which is understandable. But what you won’t find on their site is a draconian code of conduct meant to anticipate and regulate attendees’ every thought. That is how a rational society with shared understandings operates.
That’s the Left’s blind spot. They’re so laser-focused on the present that they never stop to think about the second order effects of their actions. In fact, they don’t stop to think at all. Not to let Conservatives off the hook. Losing to overgrown toddlers for fifty years hardly recommends them. In terms of cultural dominance, blindness to art is worse than blindness to logic.
The blindness to art among Conservative influencers and money men is a curse the Right will have to break to have any hope of steering civilization away from the cliff. #1 bestselling author and comics creator Jon Del Arroz discussed this problem, and many other pop culture subjects, on his live stream last night.
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