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1 posted on 07/21/2026 5:10:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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What begins with book-burning and statue-smashing always leads to real violence. As my friend Christopher Bedford once wrote about mobs targeting a society’s icons, “The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.”
2 posted on 07/21/2026 5:10:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Thank God for President Trump!


3 posted on 07/21/2026 5:23:17 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
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Yep. Nope.

They are collecting the old tires and planning the necklace fires.


5 posted on 07/21/2026 5:29:44 AM PDT by KC Burke
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I saw the DSA Co-Huggy on FNC this morning. The boy is a real latin lover Romeo with a French poodle haircut. I can’t wait until we get the order to start shootin’ these commie SOBs.


6 posted on 07/21/2026 5:34:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The crap going on in America ISN'T immigration. It's friggin' colonization. America is falling.)
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Like stories and statues, the people themselves must be transformed.

One must always remember how it turned out for Rome.


8 posted on 07/21/2026 5:38:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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Hopefully, no substitute for a crystal ball:

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9 posted on 07/21/2026 5:41:31 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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I would go for bombing Facebook and google data centers.


10 posted on 07/21/2026 5:42:35 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.”

Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., August 12, 1919

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/04/nato-head-coming-to-washington-dc-as-germany-passes-law-requiring-17-to-45-year-old-men-to-get-govt-permission-for-travel/#comments


12 posted on 07/21/2026 5:44:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“The Fabian Society was named—at the suggestion of Frank Podmore—in honour of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (nicknamed Cunctator, meaning the “Delayer”). His Fabian strategy sought gradual victory against the superior Carthaginian army under the renowned general Hannibal through persistence, harassment, and wearing the enemy down by attrition rather than pitched, climactic battles.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society


13 posted on 07/21/2026 5:47:04 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Yup.....Western culture is being dismantled, piecemeal!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Iaa3t-zORp4?feature=share

14 posted on 07/21/2026 5:50:57 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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When they go on insisting that it’s a “must-see” film, that’s when I want to watch something else. There is no need to watch any film except for the industry’s need to have you as their loyal customer.


15 posted on 07/21/2026 5:56:21 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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Retire if you can.

Spend down your money.

Think of yourselves as Jews in 1932 Germany.

Make sure your young ones learn a foreign language and a skill another country would want.


16 posted on 07/21/2026 6:00:11 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (I used black electrical tape to cover the cameras of my cellphone and Windows PC)
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The African tree will display the Afrocentrism of the nWo while purging history to appease the choice groups.


19 posted on 07/21/2026 6:15:17 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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21 posted on 07/21/2026 6:24:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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I agree with the general thrust of John Daniel Davidson’s article. BUT ....

He begins with an extended riff on The Odyssey, shifts into a shorter riff on the Little House on the Prairie remake, and then starts shotgunning what the left is doing.

That’s all fine and dandy ... except the he doesn’t seem to have actually watched either of the projects he is dissecting.

Scan some reviews. Cherrypick a couple that fit a fixed preselected narrative. Never check the projects being criticized. Rely instead on “I read it on the internet so it must be true.” Package the predetermined conclusion as red meat to be tossed into an online echo chamber.

This is how we end up with an internet driven culture of people trapped in echo chambers talking past each other.

We’re going to see The Odyssey on Thursday. I wasn’t particularly motivated to see it. I would probably have watched it at some point just to see what the fuss was about, on the theory that pretending to be a critic is a fraud if you don’t engage with the work being criticized. But the added incentive here is that Nolan made a fuss about shooting The Odyssey in 70mm film for true IMAX screens. That accounts for some of the high cost. Sure, it could have been shot a lot cheaper — and if you buy into that, be aware that the endpoint will be AI slop, which the studios will love because it will be cheap. Provided that viewers can be dumbed down and numbed down enough not to care.

Anyhow, given that Nolan jumped through hoops to provide the best possible cinematic experience — and that’s independent of whether or not I like his thematic treatment — I wanted to see it in the best theater available. Unfortunately, true IMAX theaters are rare, so we have to settle on a second best option, which here would be the IMAX theaters at the Air and Space Museum. But even the Smithsonian switched from true IMAX to laser projection, so basically digital 4k on a really big screen. I don’t know where the nearest true IMAX theater is, still using 70mm film projection, but if I had access to one, I would seek it out just for that.

I remember the first IMAX films, beginning with To Fly, as being the most stunning things I’ve seen onscreen. But that was back before the Smithsonian, during a remodelling, downgraded the quality of its projection. Because downgrading was cheaper.

The older my eyes get, the crankier I am getting about this. I thought I would never get another tv after we upgraded to a 4k OLED a few years ago. I may reconsider at some point. Color fidelity, brightness and upscaling have moved the bar enough for my eyes to notice. No one is making 6k or 8k content for commercial distribution, and no ISPs are streaming it. 4k is becoming the standard, but that’s still a work in progress. But tv’s upscaling native 4k content are impressive enough to notice. If my eyes were better, I might not care, but I make concessions to age where vision is concerned.


22 posted on 07/21/2026 6:25:49 AM PDT by sphinx
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I understand the sentiment of this article, but society is always - always - living in an era of cultural destruction. Ideas get challenged. Sometimes the challenges have merit. Sometimes they don’t. A lot of the “destruction” mentioned in this article is not really destruction. Its Woke remakes that crash and burn. Most of the cultural re-interpretations of the past five years have died a horrible death. People have gotten rich on YouTube and in other media platforms making fun of Woke remakes. The Odyssey is arguably one example of a deconstruction of a canon of Western literature that is successful. But I’m really not sure if most people who have gone to see it are picking up on that. They see the Cyclops and Circe as mini-horror movies and love the spectacle rather than railing against them being a total undermining of the original tale. They don’t care that Matt Damon plays Oysseus as a veteran with PTSD rather than a hero. We’ve survived this before. I was horrified by Gladiator when the dramatic ending implied that Rome was returning to a Republic. I was the guy in the theater standing up and shouting - “Don’t you know this was a low point in Roman history when they auctioned off the role of emperor to the highest bidder???” But everyone else loved the movie, even conservatives. So we’ll survive the Odyssey too.


24 posted on 07/21/2026 6:42:37 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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It’s more an age of cultural exhaustion. There are no new ideas and no new energy so people who produce entertainment and art just keep repeating themselves.


26 posted on 07/21/2026 7:06:01 AM PDT by x
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Bookmark


31 posted on 07/21/2026 7:36:11 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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36 posted on 07/21/2026 8:46:41 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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In some cases, it wasn’t enough to remove or even melt down a statute. Instead, a mockery had to be made of the thing. In Los Angeles, a bronze equestrian statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson was cut up and welded back together in a grotesque, inhuman form — a deliberate act of defacement and mockery and perversion.

This example was the one that came to mind as I read the title, glad the author covered it. It is probably the grossest perversion of the human form I've seen - something Linda Blair's character in the Exorcist would sculpt from feces if she weren't tied down. It demonstrates that there is no art in the Left, only destruction and mockery. The object created is an expression of hatred. Not intended to uplift or provide an idealized representation of anything good. In that sense, it is the perfect expression of the Left, demonic.

39 posted on 07/21/2026 9:34:15 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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