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Wednesday, May 18. 2022

Wednesday morning links

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 08:00 | Comments (16) | Trackbacks (0)

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If California just keeps it up with its energy policies, pretty soon it will be so optimized they won't be consuming any energy at all.
#1 Aggie on 2022-05-18 11:06 (Reply)
""the war in Ukraine is simple:"" but ""my perspective is nuanced."" The war in Ukraine is nuanced, your perspective is simple- there fixed it for you.
#2 ulithi on 2022-05-18 11:24 (Reply)
Well done. You captured the truth behind the curtain.
#2.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-18 11:37 (Reply)
WHY THE CAREER OF TOM WOLFE SHOULD SERVE AS A LESSON FOR CONSERVATIVE DONORS AND YOUNG DISSIDENT WRITERS

It's a good piece, and a legitimate challenge. But the author doesn't seem to recognize one critical piece these days: a distribution system.

It's very had to get a movie into theaters. Especially a "conservative" one. Good luck getting into Netflix's woke culture.

Self-publishing is far easier than getting a contract in previous decades, but you can readily get banned from Amazon (and other on-line sellers).

And "conservatives" are largely purists, myself included. I cringe at "conservative" pieces that contradict Biblical teaching. Christian publishing houses have become less strict over some decades, but most have lines they won't cross, including some that aren't truly Biblical.

There are opportunities coming. The "metaverse" is a big one. It won't be easy selling conservative content, b/c debauchery is universally appealing. But there will be opportunities, and they will be expensive. Will see if donors start to step up.
#3 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-18 11:35 (Reply)
Via Steve Hayward at PowerLine .. breaking from WaPo

Just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being “paused,” according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting of this story. On Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. By Tuesday morning, Jankowicz had drafted a resignation letter in response to the board’s dissolution.
#4 Christopher B on 2022-05-18 11:41 (Reply)
It's tough to reach an agreement when there are so many lies to choose from.
#4.1 DrTorch (Link) on 2022-05-18 11:47 (Reply)
Unfortunately, "paused" doesn't mean "disavowed" or even "abandoned." Instead, it's government-speak for "we'll roll it out in a few months, when people aren't paying attention; perhaps using a different name"
#4.2 OldCurmudgeon on 2022-05-18 13:26 (Reply)
It's very difficult to believe any public statement from an organization dealing in disinformation.
#4.3 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2022-05-18 16:27 (Reply)
I'm sure most of the people that read Maggie's Farm understand that the gas prices are just about where democrats want them. Remember Obama said so, back in 2013. So, accounting for Biden inflation, there will probably be two more dollars further increase.
#5 B. Hammer on 2022-05-18 12:03 (Reply)
Gas prices are where they wanted them. Unfortunately, the price for lithium skyrocketed as much as seven fold. Also big increases in the price of other metals in the lithium batteries. What they really want is a total absence of private cars. Everyone move to the city.

As a skeptic, I pay attention to the dysfunctional elite as to what they actually see for our future.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/05/no_author/yuval-noah-what-to-do-with-all-of-these-useless-people/

Agenda 21 is somewhat delayed but still doable in their world.
#5.1 indyjonesouthere on 2022-05-18 12:56 (Reply)
Can California Really Achieve 85% Carbon-Free Electricity By 2030?

As long as Nevada builds enough power plants.
#6 Jerryskids on 2022-05-18 13:01 (Reply)
Or CA residents accept 3rd world intermittent power. I lived in Southern Spain as a kid in the 60's and power would just go away for hours at a time. Fortunately the base my father was working on had its own 20 MW generator and lots of excess refrigeration. We stored anything we didn't immediately need on the base and had Dad bring it home every night.
#6.1 John Fisher on 2022-05-18 15:41 (Reply)
My manager based in California had to cancel part of his zoom call today because they had no power, And it sounded planned. He was walking around in his garage to stay cool. Bad times ahead there. In the Free State of Florida, I think we have enough power plants.
#6.1.1 grant1863 on 2022-05-18 19:54 (Reply)
I was active in conservative groups throughout the 70's, and was able to talk with many brilliant individuals. Meeting Russell Kirk at Mecosta in 1974 was a highlight, and one I got to repeat at a later ISI meeting on Solzhenitsyn, held at the "Kirk Manse." I was an English major and ultimately graduate student.

Alas, the conservative-class of writers, business men, academics, and philanthropists that I met and came to know professed absolutely zero interest around literature and the arts. While many knew and loved Wolfe, their general interest and passion lay with polemics. NR's most interesting artistic voice of the time -- D. Keith Mano -- was given a place at the very back of the magazine. When Mano moved on, even that small experiment disappeared.

We might have done this to ourselves.
#7 Frankns on 2022-05-18 14:51 (Reply)
If wealthy conservative and right-wing donors will not fund and support those who are trying to reduce or limit immigration then it hardly matters whether or not they support publishing a modern-day Tom Wolfe. Immigration is everything and it is permanent in its effects, unlike almost every other conservative issue.
#8 Robert Moffett (Link) on 2022-05-18 17:01 (Reply)
QUOTE:
WHY THE CAREER OF TOM WOLFE SHOULD SERVE AS A LESSON FOR CONSERVATIVE DONORS AND YOUNG DISSIDENT WRITERS

While Wolfe was conservative in demeanor, he rejected labels, and he most emulated Émile Zola, "a man of the left."

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(back then, bookstores could still afford Fifth Avenue and, more to the point, still existed)

https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2234

QUOTE:
Alas, the conservative-class of writers, business men, academics, and philanthropists that I met and came to know professed absolutely zero interest around literature and the arts.

When a trend continues for generations, it is probably structural and not a matter of "investment." There are some great artists whose art is informed by a conservative viewpoint, but they are generally the exception. By its nature, good art tends to the unconventional, or it will have nothing new to say. After all, what is creativity but the ability to find something fresh outside of tired and well-worn conventions.

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My intent, I can tell you, was to blow the lid off political correctness, rampant anti-Americanism, the collapse of the humanities, the Astroturffed protest culture, the racial grievance racket, the corrupt administration, the horrible relations between the sexes . . . In other words, I wanted to tell as a story — with a setting, characters, action, dialogue and plot

There's the problem right there. He says he wants to tell a story, but all he talks about are abstractions.
#9 Zachriel on 2022-05-19 08:39 (Reply)

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