Right-wing media moan about how the Left has captured arts and culture.

The same media then refuse to give publicity to Right-wing artists.

This shows us that:

They don’t care about culture.

They’d rather complain and concede.

They are setting up their own grift.

/1
I’ve been a reader since the 1990s.

I started with thrillers.

Even today, the genre is a bastion for conservatives and right-wingers of all kinds.

You have to work to find a self-declared leftist / liberal / progressive in this genre.

/2
How many right-wing thriller writers can these media outlets name that weren’t also journalists?

Those who can’t show they don’t care about culture.

Those who don’t care about culture except as a springboard to attack the Left and grow their audience should be ignored. /3
Art is hard.

That’s why it’s called ‘work of art’.

Why techniques are called ‘craft’.

It’s easier to make money in other fields.

The pragmatism of the right naturally draws right-wingers towards other careers.

But they’ll still enjoy art if it’s offered to them. /4
It’s easy to complain that there isn’t right-wing entertainment.

Easy to get attention and make money from complaining.

But doing the work of art?

It’s hard. /5
Hard enough for a leftist who lives in a sympathetic culture.

For a rightist who faces mobs, the media, backstabbing agents and publishers, cancel culture?

The difficulty is 100X’d, without going into the little details like how to feed your family and support the business. /6
How does a businessman make money?

Define a problem.

Draw attention to the problem.

Offer the solution to the problem.

Now apply this to art.

/7
Problem: there is no right-wing entertainment.

Offer: I have right-wing entertainment for you!

Audience: right-wingers who want entertainment aligned with their values.

Put the 3 together and the result is:

Profit!

/8
It’s the inverse of the same grift the Left has run for decades.

There is no female/LGBTQ/minority representation in X, so here is MOAR REPRESENTATION!

Now replace ‘minority’ with ‘right-wing’. /9
To pull this off, the grifters must ignore everyone and everything whose existence threatens the ‘problem’ they’ve created.

Or cancel them.

You can’t count on grifters to help you if you threaten their narrative. /10
Pointing out the things and people that counter their narrative isn’t going to change their minds.

Their livelihoods depend on the narrative.

They don’t have any incentive to reflect reality. /11
Here’s what you can do:

Steal audience from grifters by pointing out your existence.

Create a network and promote each other

Grow your own audience

Develop marketing and networking skills.

/12
Don’t count on grifters to help you.

Don’t rely on unsympathetic media to lift you up.

If you’re not part of the old boys’ network, don’t count on them for help.

Build your own grassroots network and grow the audience you want.

#PulpRev

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10 Feb
If you're at risk of being cancelled, having multiple income streams is not a luxury.

It is mandatory.
At least one of those income streams must be:

* Disconnected from your public profile
* Not reliant on political trends
* Highly secure
* Independent of new clients, acquaintances, and people you cannot trust
* Difficult / impossible for law enforcement to shut down
This income stream must be insulated from political and social shocks as completely as possible.

It must be uninterruptible, or at least resilient.

It must be able to support you and your dependents for at least 3 to 6 months.
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The business of entertainment is too important to be left to megacorps, pedophiles, and small-souled bugmen who delight only in forcing their ideas on others and demanding them to pay for the privilege.

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Every work of art, no matter how great or minor, builds upon the culture.

It is a conversation with the past, and sows the seeds for the future.

From culture springs the values and worldview that influence how you think, feel, perceive, act.

/2
Those who aim to control the culture, to decide who gets to be seen and who doesn't, want to control the past, present and future.

They want to control your soul.

/3
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15 Nov 20
English language bookstores have a 'Self-Improvement' or an 'Inspirational' section.

The Chinese language section in my local bookstore instead uses to therm 修养励志.

A literal translation is 'self-improvement' and
'inspirational'.

But there's a deeper meaning here.

/1 Image
修养 is translated as 'self-improvement'.

But it also means self-cultivation.

In the sense of cultivating crops.

A term that at once hints at the deep role agriculture played in the development of China, AND the Chinese approach to self-improvement.

/2
To whit:

It is not a one-and-done deal.

Like a farmer tending to his crops, you have to constantly practice the qualities you want to develop.

As a bountiful yield from the harvest allows the farmer to expand his farm, so cultivation grows your capacity and resources.

/3
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28 Oct 20
Forgot to mention this in the original thread.

Fortunately, PulpArchivist picked it up.
The key elements of combat is shoot, move and communicate.

These must be trained until they are second nature.

Adrenaline reduces you to the level of your training.

It does not help you rise to the occasion, unless you are already highly trained.
For 'communicate', you must do the following:

-Communicate the enemy's location, strength and actions

-Tell everyone where to go and what to do

-Tell everyone where you are going and what you will do

All this while taking and returning fire.
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28 Oct 20
An increasingly common trend I'm seeing in books, games and movies these days is having characters banter with or snark at each other.

In the middle of combat.

This is utterly ridiculous.

/1
The idea of casual danger dialogue stems from comic books.

With only a couple dozen pages per issue, the creators have to cram as much plot and personality into every panel as possible.

/2
This works because every panel is a slice of frozen time.

Every panel represents a beat.

Talking is a free action contained within the beat.

This is unique to the medium, not seen in other media.

And for good reason.

/3
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27 Oct 20
The Chinese believed that #writing and #health belonged to the same element:

The element of wood.

What applies to one field applies to the other.

The link between writing and wood should be obvious.

But health?

/1
'Health' isn't just healthcare.

Not just doctors and medicines and treatments.

It's a holistic perspective of health.

Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

This also includes training and practices to become healthy.

/2
Wood represents growth.

What do you do when you train?

You grow.

You tear down muscles and build them back up.

You develop and ingrain specific motor skills.

You thicken the myelin sheaths that insulate your nerves, allowing them to fire more efficiently.

You grow.

/3
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