Culture Wars

Culture Beyond Politics

Culture Beyond Politics

You may not be much interested in politics, but politics—to borrow from Trotsky’s famous dictum on war—is certainly interested in you. With indigenous land acknowledgements to sit through, rainbow-coloured sidewalks to tiptoe over, and approved slogans to recite on cue, political preoccupation has colonized nearly all thinking. Entertainment, education, sport, business, and even private conscience now arrive freighted with ideological significance. Everything must justify itself politically before it can simply exist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture, Culture Wars

The Feminine Wound: The Radicalization of Young Women Is about More than the Internet and Social Media

The Feminine Wound: The Radicalization of Young Women Is about More than the Internet and Social Media

Are women okay? The answer, clearly, is no. Women are not okay. The young ones, especially.

This week, Britain’s New Statesman introduced us to “the Angry Young Women,” an expanding coven of radical, unstable, men-hating, activist women. This is maybe the first time a mainstream outlet in the UK has acknowledged the precipitous leftward drift of young women and the major effects it’s having on British society: on politics, culture, relations between the sexes—pretty much everything you can think of, really.

Whether it’s Israel’s war in Gaza, the “Climate Crisis,” the Patriarchy, racism, or the prospect of a Reform government forcing them out of the workforce and back into the home, there to be tethered to the stove and the marital bed for the rest of their days, Britain’s Angry Young Women are “teetering on the edge of an anxiety attack” at any moment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Culture, Culture Wars

WAGNER: Losing the culture war will result in tyranny

The Roman Empire was pluralistic and multicultural. It allowed all sorts of religious practices and beliefs, but it could not tolerate Christianity. Christians were considered to be seditious because of their refusal to offer sacrifices to Roman gods.

Eventually, however, the empire became Christianized to a degree, and over time, political and religious liberty would become widespread.

(Incognito)

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars

“These are Worrying Times for My Generation”

Pride Day has just passed in my hometown of Hull. Pride flags were publicly displayed, replacing Union flags; countless posters were plastered on shop windows and adverts invaded social media feeds. One could not miss that the event was approaching. Fortunately, away in Stockport watching football, I escaped the parade of men in dresses; their giveaway cock and balls openly dangling between their legs. This came weeks into Pride Month, a fleeting four weeks dedicated to the LGBTQwerty community. Pride awareness, however, does not stop there. There are more upcoming events in a local town around Hull: the Pride of Beverley, which is also hosting a Dog Walk of Pride – hold me back. It is evident this community is always in the limelight. What for though? Scaring children, exploiting women and playing fancy dress?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Anti-White Racism", Cultural Insanity, Cultural Marxism, Culture Wars, UK

Britain’s weekend of protest anarchy: Palestine Action supporters will defy threat of mass arrests as more demos are held outside migrant hotels

The UK is bracing for a weekend of protest anarchy with both Palestine Action supporters and anti-migrant demonstrators set to take to the streets.

More than 500 people are expected gather outside Parliament at 1pm tomorrow in support of Palestine Action, defying warnings they will be charged with terror offences.

Membership of, or support for, the proscribed group is now a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars, UK

A Meditation on Diana West’s ‘Wake Up and Smell the Culture’

Diana West has written a book on America’s declining culture. Much of the book is taken up with the question of who is responsible? Did this happen because of a lack of vigilance? In that case, vigilance against whom? Among the many named enemies, Diana West sees a threat from globalism. Think of all those things having to do with the well-being of “the planet” or “humankind.” That is globalism, an ideology built up over the last century by liberals and communists. According to Diana West, the antidote to globalism is America First, led by Donald Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Culture Wars

Why Morgan Wallen Terrifies the Left

His success wasn’t cleared by the cultural gatekeepers.

There’s a peculiar talent NPR has perfected over the years: the ability to moralize and condescend in the same breath, all while pretending they’re simply offering insight. Their latest exercise in public character trial — disguised as cultural analysis — centers on Morgan Wallen, a man whose real crime seems to be success without permission.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture, Culture Wars

How Ireland became a cauldron of the culture war

On one side there were thousands of working-class people waving the Irish tricolour and belting out the Irish national anthem. On the other there was a gaggle of Trinity thin kids and sun-starved lefties, the kind of people who put the soy into socialism. One was a witch (she / they) who was there to ‘protest against Nazi cunts’. They chanted about ‘revolution’ yet it looked like a strong gust of wind might take them out. ‘32 counties, 69 genders’, said one banner, which I think means they want a United Ireland in which people with cocks get to cosplay as lesbians. Ah, just as Pádraic Pearse envisioned.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars

The dangers of the political gender gap

Young women and men are gravitating towards opposite political extremes, with potentially explosive consequences.

Throughout history, poverty, class and economic self-interest have driven radical political movements. The Bolsheviks harnessed the anger of impoverished workers and peasants to create a movement that controlled the world’s biggest country for seven decades. The Nazis came to power due to both the Great Depression and resentment towards a small but economically nimble Jewish community.

Today, extremist politics is not bubbling up primarily from the economically disaffected, as occurred both in medieval and modern times during periods of upheaval. The self-professed radicals of our age seem more driven by their own inner cultural angst and disturbed psychology.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Culture, Culture Wars

Real Men and Women: The Key to a Cultural Renaissance

There’s a sage line in the 1972 Western classic, Jeremiah Johnson, written by the great John Milius. An old mountain man (Will Geer) says it to his former green mentee turned brutal Indian fighter, Jeremiah Johnson (a superlative Robert Redford), “You’ve done well to keep so much hair when so many’s after it.”

Conservative writers don’t need Paramount or Disney money to turn the cultural tide back to the right.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars

Why the West must fight for its history

The culture war against the past is depriving us of a future.

In my new book, The War Against the Past: Why the West Must Fight For Its History, I argue that unless we retrieve our historical memory, we are doomed to a state of cultural paralysis.

This act of retrieval won’t be easy. Our historical memory is under sustained assault by a significant swathe of our cultural elites. While many involved in this culture war appear to be focussed on controlling the way we speak and think in the here and now, their main mission is to render toxic the legacy of Western civilisation. This ceaseless attack on our history threatens to distort society’s memory of the past and create a state of historical amnesia.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Cultural Marxism, Culture, Culture Wars

Reagan the Movie: How the Mainstream Media Can’t Help Itself

Critics hated it, but audiences loved it. ’nuff Said?

On Friday, I did something I hadn’t done since before COVID-19, I went and saw a movie premiere on the day it opened in an actual movie theater. With my childhood friend Susan, whom I’ve known for more than five decades—a dyed-in-the-wool conservative just like me—we went and saw Reagan. And unlike most critics on Rotten Tomatoes who rated it at 18% and elsewhere, we loved it along with a virtually unprecedented 98% of Rotten Tomato viewers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCulture Wars, Hollywood

It’s not a culture war when we do it

Did you hear the news? The ‘era of culture wars is over’. Lisa Nandy, the UK’s new Labourite culture secretary, said so. In a speech yesterday to her new staff at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Nandy tossed all that ‘division’ and ‘polarisation’ into the dustbin of history, all in a few short lines. ‘In recent years we’ve found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another’, she said. ‘Changing that is the mission of this department.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCultural Insanity, Culture, Culture Wars