Posted on 11/05/2022 2:50:29 PM PDT by Twotone
Multiple pieces in my nonfiction collection out this fall, Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction, take issue with what began as “political correctness gone mad” in the 1990s, but was more recently tagged “identity politics,” morphed into “cancel culture,” and morphed again into “Wokism” (a dizzying linguistic turnover that took place across only five years). By the time the collection was being copyedited, I found a few of these essays’ observations over-obvious.
Mind, they were anything but obvious at the time: that progressives have become illiberal, authoritarian, and hostile to free speech; that left-wing speech codes corrupt readable, original prose; that a taboo against “cultural appropriation” binds the artistic imagination and potentially reduces fiction to memoir. While these and similar assertions remain sound, readers in 2022 are unlikely to fall off their chairs. Perhaps such centrist truisms are well on their way to lame — a prospect that cheers me no end.
What my audience may fail to note is the dates. I staked out uncompromising opposition to the ludicrous “cultural appropriation” prohibition in September 2016 — barely a year into the current period during which identity politics has been revved into overdrive. I enjoyed little ideological company when I told an audience in Brisbane that month,
Not only as writers but as people, surely we should seek to push beyond the constraining categories into which we have been arbitrarily dropped by birth. If we embrace narrow group-based identities too fiercely, we cling to the very cages in which others try to trap us. We pigeonhole ourselves. We limit our notion of who we are, and in presenting ourselves as one of a membership, a representative of our type, an ambassador of an amalgam, we ask not to be seen.
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If good people lose the culture war, then the best thing would be if subsequent events erase society. It will be time to build a new one.
It’s a long article, & the solution we all pretty much know: Stand up, speak out & push back. It’s just having the courage to do so. Some have & prospered. Others have & been destroyed. But that’s what it takes to defeat this particular monster.
The answer is ALWAYS found in history. God has destroyed arrogant civilizations like ours before. I love Trump, but no Trump will save America.
ONLY ‘sincere, on-our-knees’ repentance, and crying out to God thru Jesus Yeshua, the Messiah, will save America.
Are YOU willing to do that?
There won’t and can’t be any sort of conservative “victory” in the culture wars unless and until the following things happen...
(1) The revival of widespread practice of Christianity.
(2) The revival of the belief that only heterosexual acts are normal and acceptable.
As long as the majority of the population embraces or accepts atheism, atheistic materialism, nihilism, sexual deviancy, sexual perversity, transgenderism, etc., there is no possibility of things turning around.
Yes we can.
Bill Gates has the right idea, reduce the population, he just had the wrong target. We need to eliminate all our Democrats.
Everything will be “Hunky dory” after that is done.
The “culture war” may be viewed as those who display the fruit of having been turned over to depraved minds acting it out in the culture.
Those who are the current blind followers of blind guides may still be reached, which is probably why the current blind guides have put so much effort into a system of conform or be bullied so pervasive that the Woke have accomplished something truly historic, for they are self-oppressing needing no government or military to oppress them for each man is his neighbor’s oppressor and the fear of the browbeating stands in the way of their finding the fear of the Lord.
Absolutely. It starts at the local level and with getting rid of the radical Left influences in the school system.
Winning the culture wars will not come from long essays which people will never read.
It will come in diner counter conversations, church talks, talks at work — pointing out how leftism produces poverty and crime.
Yes.
Good guys have to be willing to engage in the Culture Wars.
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I doubt that Christian conservatives can win the culture war at this late stage, what’s more likely to happen is that an event like the second coming will force a separation of the population and a good remnant will rule. I don’t know what’s most likely to happen to the bad majority. It could be that they are wiped out as a consequence of their opposition to the Kingdom, or quarantined somewhere with no way to influence events. But in non-religious terms, the critical mass of Christian conservatives now is so small and their potential allies so weak and divided on details that I can’t see some process-driven return to sanity. Our culture was probably doomed by events in the 1960s, and has been working its way through stages of dysfunction ever since then.
When I talk about “potential allies” for example there would be some libertarians who share some values but want to live and let live on same sex issues, maybe also most gender issues, and lifestyle choices, so in other words, basically they are allies of the more aggressive anti-Christian majority.
Only if the good guys don’t feed the straving cities, don’t send the straving cities fuel. Only if the good guys are willing to impose the death penality on those who deserve it, e.g., those who kill or by their actions casue disasters or death on the population. Again, I refer you to the above, don’t feed or help cities that hate you.
I saw Lionel Shriver interviewed by Mark Steyn, and I read her book “The Mandibles”.
I was shocked to find out she voted for Biden.
She has a ways to go to figure things out.
Already won the culture war where I live.
Antifa, the racist BLM and the screaming library cross-dressers were told to leave. They haven’t come back.
they are eliminating themselves, they don’t need any help from us thankfully :)
bingo
As R Reagan, N Gingrich, and many others have observed for many years, our side does not understand how to use language.
The best Current example is “Democracy”. Most Republicans are accepting the Left re-defining the word “Democracy”.
Democracy in America was defined by Alexis de Touqueville.
Everybody votes. Citizens, non-citizens, felons, children, registered, unregistered.
ho
We vote with our feet where to live, where to work, where to worship, where to play, where to shop. We vote with our money what to buy... or save and not buy.
We vote everyday. This is Democracy in America.
A small segment of the population voting 3 or 4 times a year for politicians is not Democracy in America.
We need to go on the offensive and clarify Democracy in America.
The dominant views of the founders was classical liberalism. America will always slant liberal. And that includes most here at FR. Sorry.
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