/lit/ - Literature

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A lot of people believe there's some kind of self-propagating leftist cultural hegemony established in academia, film, music, culture, writing, etc, all of which are finally beginning to affect politics through legislation like the one which brought JP to fame (the "it's illegal to misgender someone" law, which I'm not even sure actually existed as it was presented by the right)
So let's look at how the left got this (supposed, because I'm skeptical) power. First they managed an initial insertion through conversion or placement of agents into art and activism, right? Workers groups and hollwood, basically. Probably backed by some leftist power center in the USSR but honestly how much did the USSR actually do for these people in the US? Very little. Occasionally sent some russian accented cuties over to cheerlead probably. Then, the art and the activism influenced academics, who took over the humanities departments of prestigious universities, implementing changes within the university that favored their point of view (starting a journal of women's/native studies, for example) and self-selecting through mentorship and lecture, encouraging those most influenced/most brilliant at influencing students to their camp and back into academia, forming a second generation which was galvanized to directly influence policy, and so we have an AOC and a bernie sanders, which makes the current political reality a complete failure mode for midcentury conservativism. As I understand it.
Anyway I wonder why the so-called right is so perplexed with this power structure, when the obvious solution is to copy leftist success. Personally I think because leftist philosophy is inherently proselytizing, it seeks to expand numbers due to the original function of the workers strike and now through vague (but still effective, obviously) ideas of justice for subgroups who until recently would not have heard of it. The right, instead, lacks a prosyletizing element- how do you convince someone to be a conservative, when much of conservativism argues that the status quo of today should be preserved and the rest of it seeks to preserve a status quo of yesteryear.

Basically I'm telling rightists that they need to conceive of a conservativism which proselytizes, either through some kind of libertarian/randian veneration-of-individual dogma or something else I can't even think of. They need to begin the work of grassroots activism that seeks to expand numbers rather than alienate, and they also need to begin a second battle line of creating subversively conservative art, music, fiction, zines, etc. All of this without getting squashed by the leftist cultural hegemon. Find some way of communicating it without blatantly saying it. I like the odds of some kind of romantic revival but who knows.

Only chance at a future for the right. You heard it here first. It's not going to start with guys like JP, that's not how the theoretical leftist cultural grip started at all.