That’s kinda the point.
A lot of freepers have simply walked away ... or content themselves by endlessly rewatching golden oldies. As a matter of personal preference, that’s fine.
But as a culture war issue, it matters. We are raising younger generations that are relentlessly tuned into screens. At this point, for half of America, it’s too much to say that “we are raising” the next generation. Online content has become not only the public forum, but the babysitter and, for the armies of the dimwitted, the primary teachers.
What they are consuming matters, and we can’t fight something with nothing. Popular culture is a sewer. Hollywood is a dying disaster area. Popular music? Big time sports? Everything is contaminated.
In all these fields, there are people still doing good work. If conservatives won’t support them, who will? And if we don’t support them, the left wins total information dominance by default. That’s the issue.
Offering up oldies to younger gens is also an option. I’ve seen movie forums with ages 20-30 and at least once a week someone sees “Master and Commander” for the first time and is blown away by it. That’s a gateway into traditional hollywood films like Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain Blood, 20,000 Leagues, etc. The argument doesn’t have to be “back in my day movies were better.” It becomes self evident through exposure. And exposure comes from championing the greats.
I’m one of those content to watch the golden oldies. There are so many of them out there I’d never seen in all kinds of genres.
The cell phone screen IS the culture now, and as Malcolm McLuhan so famously coined “The medium is the message”. In its relentless struggle for clicks it just keeps getting weirder and more violent. No thanks.