This is Your Fault.
In pop culture, conservatives are offended by everything while contributing nothing.
Dear Conservatives:
You bitch about Hollywood because you lack the will, the skill, and the drive to compete with it. You treat art and entertainment as an afterthought, now you’re aghast that the culture has been monopolized by hacks who hate you.
And all you do is complain.
Their “Culture Warriors” produce movies and music and literature and drama that will last forever—even if it sucks. Your “culture warriors” are posters and podcasters, whose product is as disposable as yesterday’s news.
Your patriotism ignores the legacy of American artists that made this country an entertainment superpower. Your conservatism does nothing to preserve or continue that tradition.
Where are your production companies and publishing houses and talent agencies? Your theatres and museums? Your studios and conservatories? Your movie stars and pop icons?
You don’t build them. You don’t want to build them. Because you don’t care.
You instead choose to surrender the whole of America’s cultural output to incompetents who despise you, then complain about how there’s nothing good to watch or read or listen to, flummoxed by how crass and garish and ugly everything has become, inexplicably shocked that nothing changes.
All the while, gifted artists languish in relentlessly hostile work environments. They spend their careers tiptoeing on eggshells, silencing and shrinking themselves to avoid offending the zealots with which they are forced to work, because there are no viable alternatives.
They are decent, smart and conscientious people struggling to stay afloat in shark-infested waters, while their ideological peers watch from ashore, haughty and huffing that art is useless because it neither builds boats nor makes them float.
Every year there’s a divisive Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. Every year there are award shows with intellectual invalids weighing in on Current Things they know nothing about. Every year you are astonished that cultists continue to behave like a cult.
And every year you complain and complain and complain and complain.
Then you wonder why nothing is entertaining anymore, why life feels so empty, why your society is circling the drain, and you continually fail to make any connection between decaying cultural institutions and civilizational rot.
But fret not:
There are a litany of podcasters on hand to talk about it.
With warmth,
CD
I normally think your analysis on cultural issues is spot on, however I think on this one you missed the mark entirely. It has nothing to do with conservatives not producing their own art to counterbalance the other side. There are production companies doing such things now that are having some success, mostly led by Mel Gibson and Jim Caviezel. What you are missing is that conservatives are tired of being bombarded with an endless display of culture that hates them in arenas that should be at worst neutral and are often mostly funded by and populated by people that are either conservative or in the middle politically. Do you really think limp-wristed, blue-haired Antifa foot soldiers are the ones supporting NFL teams? It’s art and entertainment and people have the right to complain it sucks, tune it out and disconnect from it. It’s showing in the ratings for the pointless awards shows and in athletics. The only reason the NFL is afloat is because Goodell has decided that international fans are more valuable than Americans and that he is growing the game. Euros don’t give a rats ass about American football it’s just a way for him to generate international advertising revenue which will create a bubble and burst after he is long gone and worth a billion dollars. I appreciate the call to arms but it will land flat. Still looking forward to the Thomas Sowell play.
Look at Sound of Freedom as an example. Based on a true story about rescuing children from the sex trafficking. Who's against it? Hollywood, MSM, most liberals...
Shelved by Disney, the biggest pedo playground on the planet, because they figured they could buy it and make it disappear.
Bought back by the producer.
Rejected by studio after studio.
Crowdfunded 5 million dollars to market and release the film.
Grossed over $250 million worldwide.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics gave it 58% to make sure it looked like a dud at first glance because they're into the whole child-sex thing.
Rotten Tomatoes general audience (not professional critics) gave it 99%.
I saw the film and I would give it somewhere in the 85-90% range.