Civilization 1

The Gen Y – Millennial Gap

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I don’t quite know what to say. I’m a millennial, and one who has hardly heard a song from the 80s (That I was aware of) but when I heard that last song on your list I felt… Something. It wasn’t nostalgia, it was……
January 17, 20239 Comments
Fall of Bablyon

The Fall

Spend any length of time in dissident circles online, and you'll soon be introduced to the concept of the Collapse. Though formulated by philosophers of history a hundred years ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters discouraged by the MAGA program's failure.…
January 13, 202310 Comments
modern_art

Not for Beauty

It's all too evident that Millennials and Zoomers suffer from general aesthetic destitution. Unlike past generations, many of them seem unable to engage with artistic works on anything but a subjective level. A Big Brand X viewer from Generation Y or earlier would say: "I want to be devoted like…
January 5, 20232 Comments
Anime by Decade

Anime Ground Zero

You knew it was coming sooner or later. In another blow to the meme of Based Japan, I regret to inform you that anime did not escape the blast wave of Cultural Ground Zero. H/t to author JD Cowan, whose post last week inspired this one. To give an example…
December 26, 202229 Comments
KTH Weed Hair

Freedom Destroyed Liberty

Say you decide to go out for a burger. You hop in the car and hit the road, where at least three other drivers are drifting between lanes at ten miles under the limit, backing up traffic for blocks. You stop at a red light and soon feel like you're…
December 14, 202210 Comments
zombies

Sociological Zombies

If you were around in the mid-to-late-aughts, you were aware of the zombie apocalypse fad. Much like the shambling undead hordes it depicted, the trend was inescapable. As with most pop phenomena, a lot of ink has been spilled on why the zombie horror subgenre became so dominant when it…
December 13, 202215 Comments
Church Shop

Church Shopping

The Devil springs his most vicious attacks on the Church during two seasons. In Lent, the mainstream media overflows with pop pseudohistory books by fedora-tier academics pushing crackpot theories about Jesus. You might catch a talk show with one grifter claiming Christ was a failed rebel who got executed and…
December 8, 20227 Comments
Grooming Books

Reason #56,346,341 to Raise Your Own Kids

This is not an isolated incident. A California teacher who maintains a classroom library with books containing explicit sexual imagery and information on BDSM, orgies, and kinks recently claimed those books help students discover “who they are.” That is one of the most pernicious errors of our age, and it's…
December 6, 202211 Comments
NotMadMaxYet

Not Mad Max Yet

If you frequent online dissident circles, you'll soon encounter the idea of the collapse. Though devised by history scholars a century ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters alienated by the MAGA movement's failure. Embracing the collapse, they say, is the final…
November 17, 20223 Comments
Trump 2024 Announcement

Daddy’s Not Coming Back

For the past year, right-wing social  media has been rife with pseudo-messianism surrounding Donald Trump's expected 2024 presidential bid. His supporters' fervor has devolved to infighting with backers of Florida governor Ron DeSantis. What everybody missed among the political theater is that national elections no longer matter. They haven't for…
November 16, 202215 Comments