The popular hedonistic media has done more damage to the country than politicians or academics

The popular hedonistic media has done more damage to the country than politicians or academics, because the popular media has trashed the morals and values of Americans, and then Americans vote for politicians and evaluate academics based on those trashed values---although fewer and fewer people are voting because they don't feel they can change things, so they just veg out on more rubbish media.

Conservatism is supposed to be able to change with the new without destroying the old. Think of China now which says openly that it is battling the Western values of democracy, media independence, market liberalism and even universal values, yet it is trying to get as rich as the West with state capitalism, which is really some form of fascism or national socialism. Will they succeed? Now that is a test of Conservatism, of bringing the new capitalism into the old communism. Is our challenge easier or more difficult than what China is trying to do? China can use force of course, but if they give their modern liberal press hedonistic freedom they will decline as fast as we have declined---they know this, and we do not seem to know it, or don't do anything about it.

I know we have to build up a healthy media along side the virulent media, but I also think we have to find a way to prune their influence, even as we uphold freedom of the press and freedom of expression. Our defense seems to reside in group morality, which is virtually buried, versus individual morality which rules. The foundation of human nature and human social life remains group selection over individual selection, which is at the origin of all morals and values and altruism, as it has been for hundreds of thousands of years. Could not sharp Constitutional lawyers find a way to bypass those who say all we individuals have to do is turn off the station, and thereby not give a care about group morality? Otherwise it seems that we will descend even further into the wasteland, or dictators will rise to change things, autocratically. It's best to work with what we have if we can---radical change, if it even works, usually causes more pain and trouble than conservative change.