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Defusing the Pop Bomb

Rivers of ink have been spilled in our corner of the counterculture scene about Cultural Ground Zero. For the uninitiated, that's a shorthand description of the abrupt decline that struck Western entertainment right around 1997. The movie moguls, rock gods, and video game wizards who'd spent the 80s and 90s…
June 11, 202115 Comments
Theistic Orientation 1

A Divine Hand

Looking at the following charts in light of salvation history, it's hard not to see a divine hand in the West's onrushing demographic winter.   Not only are atheists already a tiny minority, their ranks overwhelmingly consist of white men, whose numbers are steadily dwindling relative to the overall population.…
June 10, 202116 Comments
Sound Advice

Sound Advice

A common dissident critique of Conservatism holds that it failed to conserve anything. This accusation may sound cliché now, but it's so self-evident that Conservatives don't even try to refute it. Instead they fall back on scare tactics like warning that the Hamburglar will take over the country unless we…
June 9, 202112 Comments
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The Power of Why

We don't know what pastors and catechists of the last several decades expected when they let parochial schools lapse into public schools with crosses. Hopefully they didn't intend to leave three generations in a state of de facto heathenry. Whatever their intentions, that was the result. Replacing older generations whose…
June 8, 202112 Comments
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More Music Ground Zero

In case you missed it, author and musician David V. Stewart recently did a couple of videos in which he ranked heavy metal albums. One video ranked Metallica's discography, while the follow up graded Megadeth's catalogue (on the front end of his Final Fantasy V stream). Both are highly worth watching.…
June 7, 202118 Comments
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Fantasy World of Cardboard

Talk to enough Millennials and Zoomers, and before long the conversation will turn to their favorite pop culture brands. Discussing these brands with them at any length will give you the strong impression that younger generations have a deep affinity for projecting themselves into these properties. Without a doubt, you'll…
June 1, 202114 Comments
Mulder Aliens

I’m Not Saying It’s Aliens

Regular readers of this blog will know that I'm no hard-nosed skeptic. That said, Charles Fort himself warned against being so open-minded that one's brains spilled out. The sudden candidness about UFOs on the part of the military, Congress, and the media raises ample reason for caution, if only because…
May 27, 202120 Comments
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PopCult Icons

Every so often, a Twitter thread comes along that perfectly encapsulates the degeneracy of our age. Such a thread drew notice in counterculture circles for blowing the lid off the Pop Cult icons known as FunkoPops.     Read the whole depressing thread. All their claims of material objectivity and…
May 25, 20218 Comments

A Model of Collapse

Scholar Peter Turchin has developed a model of societal collapse that's already yielded startingly accurate predictions. Acquainting yourself with his work is probably a good idea because, if he maintains his track record, we probably won't be enjoying the next 5-10 years very much.   The year 2020 has been…
May 20, 2021

Beato Finds What He’s Looking For

Veteran record producer and audio engineer Rick Beato helped lay more of the groundwork for Cultural Ground Zero theory - at least in the music sphere - than any other pop culture observer. In particular, he contributed the crucial datum that rock & roll died in 1996. The cause of…
May 20, 2021