Perfect example of the emerging subgenre of Shitlib Yokel Kitsch.
Midwit academic tumblr-tier “Queering the Coal Mines” revisionism clumsily smuggled into “gritty alt-country” packaging to satisfy the ideological indulgences of In This House… suburban wine moms
The culture is dead. Cooked through completely. Every inch of it has been colonized to sell competing kitsch merch. Every pocket of free, unclaimed territory has been processed through the kitsch filter. This kind of deep woods grit-country is just the latest casualty. Sad!
Yes, Aldean is conservative kitsch. It’s normiecon bait.
The difference is, we know that. There’s no pretension otherwise. Childers and his fans and Rolling Stone otoh have to pretend what they’re doing is some profound, deeply authentic counter cultural subversion…“real art”
No akshually it is fake and gay and whatever genuine artistic impulses might have once inspired you have been subsumed by the kitsch borg and you are now reduced to selling banal agitprop to AWFL roasties. Ah well.
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For Father's Day I want to share one of the great father/son stories of all time, David Quammen's "Walking Out" from 1980. It originally comes from Quammen's collection "Blood Line" aptly subtitled Stories of Fathers and Sons.
Quammen abandoned fiction writing after this collection and has since had a successful career as a nature writer, including his 2012 book "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" which more or less predicted COVID
It's a bit of a mystery why Quammen quit fiction writing, since "Walking Out" is truly one of the great masterpieces of short-fiction ever produced in American letters. Few if any stories can match its prose, technique, and sheer driving force of its narrative arc
That sentence is a stand-alone paragraph at the center of the book.
The movie is not about consumerism or "uh economic stability" except to the extent that those things are insufficient to resolve the spiritual crisis of modernity.
The narrator describes himself as a thirty-year old boy. He's constantly whinging about the absence of his father. He becomes addicted to weepy, therapeutic self-help style "recovery" programs that only lead him into further despair and addiction...
Pretty much everything we've seen from (ostensible) right wingers in response to woke cap is either Black Rifle style astroturf or some cheap branding gimmick (like below) that's purely reactive and at best has a one news-cycle half-life as a joke gift...
If you are going to take the time to actually build out parallel markets in whatever product you might as well take the time to make something good, something of value, something that once the news-cycle is over and our goldfish brain sets in people will still want to consume
Remember when Daily Wire did this with their own chocolate? Do you even remember the inciting incident? No. Because who cares. None of this has any value or purpose beyond a (frankly pretty cringe, but you gotta meet the normie where they're at, fine) punchline
The Ricky Vaughn case gets even worse. It's not enough the DOJ is trying to put a political enemy in jail for posting joke memes, Stasi foot-soldiers from the SPLC have now successfully intimidated a defense witness into dropping out of the case lawandcrime.com/high-profile/a…
"Nice academic career you have there Mr. Hawley, would be a shame if something happened to it."
It bears repeating that Jan 6th was a completely fake psy-op to retcon the preceding 12 months of utter lawlessness perpetrated by Red Guard shock troops across the country, and fabricate a narrative end-point to justify the many breaches big and small to the public trust and our… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The wall of text just got 10 feet higher
This what I mean. Whig History becomes just plain old history because "arc of history" Whigs write it and impose stiff costs on anyone casting doubt on their fabricated version of events.