Category: Culture

I really think it IS a good sign.

High school and early college age is, in many ways, a time for rebellion. In dress, music, and point-of-view this is a time for exploring and trying things out. They will be 25 soon enough. Yes, it’s a dangerous time for kids because some choices have ramifications that are permanent, but we ALL still have to negotiate that life phase in ways that we think are good for us.

The idea that people this age won’t rebel is stupid and unrealistic. And the coercive Lefty schoolmarms have made it virtually inevitable that kids will rebel against them.

Rebellion is an important developmental task. Better to steer it into productive paths than to just squeeze harder and harder.

And the professors are utterly mockworthy. They claim that somebody identifying as an Apache Helicopter (a common meme that makes fun of self-assigned genders) on a survey is indicative of White Supremacy, when in fact it indicates nothing more than a healthy contempt for their supposed betters who are so disconnected from the study of engineering that they are conducting this survey.

But this is dang funny! It is just precious to see these inflated ego people get hoisted on their own petard.

Our common sense puts things into categories for a reason, and once you throw that and every objective standard out the window, Apache Attack Helicopter is no more absurd than Agender trisexual who marries a doll, which would likely be accepted by the professors.

of a cultural backlash?

I think the Left has finally crossed the line and now are getting pushback. This is just another brick in the wall…

is nothing that crap-eating “wokeness” won’t kill. The Indiana Jones franchise is now a weak and insufferable parody of itself.

Here’s the iron rule: Didacticism utterly destroys whatever art it infects.

That is NOT to say that there can’t be moral or persuasive art–there can be. It’s just that in that case the didacticism is greatly secondary to the artistic expression itself–it is an organic outgrowth of the artist’s way of being in the world, not a ham-handed “lesson.”

How is it that these people don’t know this LONG understood issue? Even something as non-crucial as Greedo being altered so he shoots first. Scene ruined. And Han Solo’s character arc was hugely diminished.

JK Rowling famously did the same thing to the end of the final “Harry Potter” book, and it was jarringly discordant with the story arc. The result? The ending of the last book was a loser and that ineptitude infected the entire second half of the book. It was lame. It was hectoring, it was not being true to the characters. She couldn’t stick the landing. Therefore, many people just pretend that the last one was not written–at least the second half.

It’s a hazardous path. When an author or other artist crams an unruly character to fit into the Procrustean bed of his or her socio-political belief system, the work virtually always ceases to be compelling.

The work becomes a lesson from an old ruler-wielding schoolmarm, not art.

wisdom from Mr. Rogers.

He couldn’t do that song today, now could he? Funny how drastically things have changed in just a few years.

Many, perhaps most, Lefties self-describe themselves as not having changed. But is there any question that they indeed have?