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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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