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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