Category: Culture

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?

a week in a hotel has really opened my cultural eyes. Like most hotels, this one offers a REALLY crappy breakfast (which I tried the first day and have never been back), and the MSU (Mendelian Spousal Unit) has noticed that very few people there interact with other humans at all—they just look at their phones.

Now don’t get me wrong, I am NOT a Luddite. Back in the day I used to build computers for myself. I was a very early PC owner. I have a smart phone. I am writing this on a tablet. Later today, I will Internet in to work, using firewalls and a VPN.

But here at breakfast, it was QUITE clear that people were in crowds, but totally socially isolated. It seems that their love for their fellow human beings has grown cold. It was not a calculated hatred for others—it was garden-variety disinterest.

it’s time!

The day of the “Melvin Milquetoast” Conservative is OH-VAH! It’s time to stand up for what is right.

That is NOT license to be rude or demeaning–I don’t approve of that or think it is good at all. But I do think it is important to openly stand up for what is right and to resist evil.

goes on.

See, now we’re into culture. Who wants to buy Bud Light for their BBQ? Who would be caught dead with a Bud Light?