What happened to our culture?

While searching through the cable and streaming channels looking for something to watch---other than old movies I've seen many times---and as usual finding only nihilism, pornography, or sensationalism, I asked myself again what happened to our culture? I'm not advocating boring movies with homilies and cliches, enduring standards can often be absorbed by portraying human depravities. The English used to make movies from the novels of Scott, Thackery, Dickens, Trollope and Austin. And American's tried their hand at making movies from the novel's of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and Faulkner, and of course their was the populist John Wayne movies. But now it's only screenplays written by truly awful writers with no real understanding of the normative standards of Western history other than to attack what little they understand of Western standards.

And we see what this kind of Hollywood garbage has done to our young people who grew up with it. They sit around playing ultra violent video games, sending obscene selfies on their smart phones, smoking marijuana, going to socialist Bernie Sanders rally's, and whenever possible having sex, with either gender. What a heinous thing to do to a people? Why was this done to America?

Hollywood became an evil genius at destroying traditional Western culture and was very successful in promoting and establishing their own degenerate garbage culture in America---and getting very rich in the process. But saying “Hollywood” is really saying the producers of Hollywood, it is they who are most responsible for the nihilism, pornography, and sensationalism that has ruined American culture---although much blame has to go to those who let this happen to America.

Hollywood is dominated by people who either refuse or are unable to conform to the dominate culture---which was at least a watered-down Christian culture. They proceeded to tear down the traditional culture every chance they got, and since they dominated the media, they had many chances to do it. No wonder puritanical men arise feeling like gallant knights saving damsels in distress. The problem now is that the damsels have been so thoroughly indoctrinated by Hollywood that they don't even know they are in distress, at least not until they find that they have to enter a substance abuse treatment program---and even then Hollywood profits from the bad publicity.

Many of us are thoroughly sick of Hollywood/New York show-business, but things will probably become more corrupt and rotten. If in the future our country separates into a constitutionally valid ethnopluralism of ethnostates, equivalent to our present regions and states, where the rights of the states can be protected from marauding imperialists, supremacists, chosens, and money grubbers by a light federalism---then Hollywood could be curbed. Hollywood and California could debauch themselves as they please, but may not be welcomed elsewhere.

The future direction of political cultures

William Lind showed us how Political Correctness is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. Cultural Marxist's (which modern liberals have virtually become) give materialism a bad name by misusing reason and science in being hostile to the natural order and real human nature in their value systems and in their views of good and evil, even though they claim to represent the soul of reason and science.

The evolutionary sciences have shown us that the natural order has evolved a human nature that is genetically kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual, marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, and religious-making, among other conservative things, with group-selection as the primary unit of selection, followed by individual selection. That is almost the opposite of cultural Marxism and modern liberalism.

Humans and cultures can operate for a time with behavior that goes against real human nature with such experiments as Marxism and modern liberalism, but cultures are eventually pulled back by the biological and genetic leash of real human nature to cultures that better reflect real human nature, and humans then work within and adapt to the environments they find themselves living in.

And what political cultures better reflect real human nature? Cultures that affirm ethnostates and an ethnopluralism of ethnostates, which takes us even deeper into the natural order and real human nature than traditional conservatism. So that strongly suggests the future direction of political cultures.

The film "The Favourite" disses its betters

I'm more of a regionalist than a royalist, and if Western civilization wasn't falling apart there might be time for this excellent but obscene comedic attack against 18th-century English royalty and aristocracy, but Western civilization is falling apart.

The artists in the film "The Favourite" have that odd modern talent of creating excellent acting and directing even though the themes and philosophy of their movies are degenerate, decadent, immoral and destructive. Colman deserved her Academy Award. 
 

I suppose this comes from being brainwashed in culturally Marxist schools, private and public, along with the malevolent culturally Marxist Media, all of whom hate old white history, all royalty, all aristocracy, all Northern Europeans, and all real Western excellence.

Joe Alwyn, who played Baron Masham in the film, said that there was little concern for historical research of characters' backgrounds: "I think people turned up to the rehearsal period thinking maybe they should've read their history books and thought about their characters and their intentions and all of that stuff that you normally think about, but Yorgos made it quite clear early on that there wasn't going to be much consideration for historical accuracy to a degree. He wasn't too caught up with or concerned about that. He just wanted us to have fun as people and as a cast and to explore the relationships between us, which is what we did."

Nothing else needs to said about this film, which disses its betters.

Plot/determinism, character/free will, and the primary force of life

If we compare free will and genetic determinism to the way Aristotle thought of the subordination of character to plot in tragedies, the extreme free will/character folks tend to block the determinist/plot folks, and the determinist/plot folks tend to block the free will/character folks. We don't want to see plot destroy character or character destroy plot or we end up with a drama that doesn't congeal.

The challenge is to define which is primary and which is secondary when, as E. O. Wilson said, there is a co-evolution.

Since genetic determinism/plot is the final arbiter, which keeps human nature on a biological leash, I say determinism/plot is primary and free will/character is secondary. We cannot block either out no matter how intellectually clever we are.

Even so, I think Nietzsche chose a secondary force when he made the will to power the primary force of his later philosophy. Darwin was closer in making survival and reproduction his primary force.

I think the material activation within material life (Tirips) that seeks the zenith of success in survival and reproduction, which defines Godhood, is the deeper primary force activating those other forces that seek power and survival for the primary ultimate purpose of attaining Godhood, while working along with outside natural selection and evolution.

The pleasures of eating and sex are not end-goals but means to survival and reproductive success, and survival and reproductive success is not the end-goal but the means to the primary goal of evolving toward the zenith of those drives, which is Godhood.

This definition can exhume and transform religion as primary, while certainly including science. It gives a goal to Nietzsche's relativistic power drive, and creates values for value-free science.