Sunday, December 30, 2018

The countermarch through the institutions


As Scott Richert of Chronicles aptly put it we need a "countermarch" through the institutions to offset the takeover of the arts, music, film, television, book publishing etc. to counter the cultural Marxism that has deformed (not formed) our culture. But the leftist vultures are not solely responsible for the cultural mess.

Libertarianism among conservative businessmen shares much of the blame because concentrating almost exclusively on making a god of individualism and the freedom to make money came back to bite them when the Hollywood moguls and leftist publishers and producers of New York, as well as the academic world, exploited American freedom and deformed a formerly conservative culture to fit their leftist cultural agendas; they found that they could make big money but also change culture in a culturally Marxist direction. They marched through the institutions and they won the cultural war. It was brilliant.

Now what? Burke and Kirk's "moral imagination" among artists now portrays only the political correctness of cultural Marxism. I guess that countermarch through the institutions has to begin with the first steps. So where are the marchers? Perhaps some of those otherwise conservative businessmen who were hoodwinked by making a god of individualism and money will finance the recovery (there's even money to be made in it). That could redeem them.

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