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Has Popular Culture Decided that Bland is the New Orange?
July 16, 2024 in Culture | Tags: Pop Culture, Replacement Theory, Social Justice, The New Puritans | by The Arbourist | 2 comments
The pop cultural landscape is always shifting and currently it seems stuck in some sort of bland identitarian rut that prioritizes being non offensive and as politically diverse as possible – at the cost of realistic characters, sensible motivations, and well… plot.
Kat Rosenfield describes this phenomena in her essay -‘How Culture Got Stupid’:
“The tenets of the new cultural criticism were as follows:
- All art was political, and always had been;
- Art with the wrong politics caused harm, especially to women and people of color;
- And all art must be analyzed through the lens of power, privilege, and progressive pieties.
The whole thing had a frantically performative vibe that bordered on the evangelical—with journalists in the role of the youth pastor palpably desperate to keep you going to church.”
The tenets Kat describes sounds a lot like the what the activist Left does for fun in their daily activities. Ruthless criticism of actual diversity and the demand that (‘x’) be held to their double standards. The result is that the medium in question becomes timid, bland, and painfully inoffensive.
“Critics used to agree that the purpose of art is to explore what is true, not to model what is proper. But around the time Flynn’s breakout novel was breathing new life into the domestic thriller genre, a new breed of cultural commentator was gestating—one for whom art was understood less as a truth-seeking enterprise than as a vehicle for moral instruction.”
Many Western societies have just finished removing the yoke of fundamentalist religious influence from society. It now seems we are moving toward a culture based on the whims of the new puritanical (read Social Justice) class.
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The Legacy Media Demonstrating Why It Needs Go – Trump Assassination Headlines.
July 15, 2024 in International Affairs, Politics | Tags: Legacy Media, Media Fail, Trump | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
The legacy media’s performance is Pravda level of disinformation, bias, and shoddy reporting. Democracies need media to be objective and report the facts of what happenes regardless of ‘which side’ was involved.
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The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Dinomite
July 14, 2024 in Religion | Tags: Dino Wisdom, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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Demystifying The Activist Left’s Narrative Arcs – Book banning?
July 13, 2024 in Education | Tags: Censorship, Destabilizing Children, The Activist Left | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
Children grow in stages in terms of physical, intellectual, and social development. They are able to properly comprehend ideas and concepts at different points of the maturation cycle.
Thus, keeping age sensitive materials availability in tune with the developmental processes is a rational way to proceed. Activists try to blend this age appropriate filter as ‘censorship’ when in fact it just a notion tied to the very real idea of stages of child development.
Why would the activist Left want to expose children to age inappropriate and destabilizing literature?
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The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Astor Piazzolla TANGO ETUDES 1 and 3
July 12, 2024 in Music | Tags: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude - Astor Piazzolla TANGO ETUDES 1 and 3 | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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Gender Ideology Meme of the Week – Existence!
July 11, 2024 in Culture | Tags: Gender Ideology Meme of the Week - Existence! | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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Douglas Murray and Peter Boghossian – Full conversation on Woke ideology
July 10, 2024 in Education | Tags: Douglas Murray and Peter Boghossian - Full conversation on Woke ideology | by The Arbourist | Comments closed
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