Culture Wars
On this episode of Now & Then, “Culture Wars,” Heather and Joanne discuss moments of dramatic cultural change in American history: pre-Civil War abolitionism, early 20th-century individualism, to our current reckoning over police brutality and history education. How do our pop cultural artifacts, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to P.T. Barnum’s problematic attractions, to Gone with the Wind, show the ways American self-identity and priorities have evolved over time? This episode was recorded before a live audience on Facebook on July 15, 2021.
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The so called "culture wars" are the armies of campus-brainwashed critical theory clones against the objective-thinking people. There is nothing redeemable in this new culture programming of reality cynicism. Yes there is objective truth. No, facts do not suffer from cultural implicit bias in a system that values free thinking... as made evident by the fact that rot like critical theory can hatch and grow. Yes the West is experiencing change... that change is almost directly related to the exporting of working class opportunity to other countries while importing other country's poverty. The impact as been fewer clear paths to a good life for people not able to crack into the elite economic class. And so the population of people below that line expand and revolt... and adopt destructive ideas to deconstruct the system that they don't feel enough ownership of.