Maggie's Farm

Except that there is no real truth in "pop culture"--there is not even the possibility of it. There is no real truth in the cynical manipulations of the Left as it is the cynical work of professional propagandist of Marxism.

The values Bach or Burke represent, or even the very point of their contribution to the "conversation of civilization" is wholly other than the Byonce or Alinsky.

On one hand one has true civilization and culture, and on the other hand a parody of these things.

The questions are: can the youth of today be brought back from the abyss; if not, is it possible to raise the cane when it is in the field.

One cannot "fight in the culture" of popular culture as it quite literally is owned by the Left, and the the "values" it puts forward--indeed the very nature of it venue and dialog--are antithetical to the questions and dialog that must happen in order to get the point across. It is not a "culture" at all in the real sense of the word. It is a demimonde parasitic on the broad culture of the West. In the end, it must be rejected if we are to survive.

That being said, the left did not "hijack" the culture. They destroyed it, or are very close to doing so. They did this with the upmost cynicism and power lust.
It is really just an American form of the political fronts of the communist or fascists parties of the 20th century.

This is the great puzzle: How was such a great, profound and rich culture bought so low by superficial mediocrities?


I employ a great many young people, many of them technologists. My feeling is that many of them are lost. A few will see the light after personal tragedy, and even fewer of these will be able to rise above. Most have been so ill-educated and deracinated that they will never in any meaningful sense be citizens. These people are in for the rudest of shocks as they hit middle age. These shocks will be material, emotional and spiritual. They will have no out.

That the con job of Global Warming is a case in point. They have really been cheated out of basic critical thinking let alone an understanding of what science is as a methodology and disciple.

But worse is the cultural relativity. They actually think that the difference between a Bach or a Byonce, or the West and China are merely a matter of opinions.

It is and extremely dubious proposition that these people can be reached "through the culture". In a very real sense, they do not have one. This is the indented fruit of progressive education: a parody of culture that is little more than a hatchery for useful idiots.