What Were the 80s Like?

With the final year of the 1980s now thirty-two years in the past, a phenomenon that strikes many members of Generations X and Y as both curious and bittersweet has emerged online. The first Zoomers are now twenty. That means two generations have now reached adulthood with no living memory…
May 20, 2021
RoosterTeeth

Rare as Rooster Teeth

The internet may finally have found that much sought-after rarity: a company that has gone broke from getting woke. Except this legendary beast isn't a unicorn. It's a rooster. It is of no surprise to anyone that Rooster Teeth has had a very rough couple of months and that is…
May 20, 2021

Ringmasters

With the Trump phenomenon gone the way of the Reagan Revolution and the Death Cult's shock troops strangling alternatives in the crib, we've gained enough distance to place the past five years in context. One of the most tragic yet edifying spectacles of the last two presidential elections was the gang…
May 20, 2021
Perpetual Revolution

Perpetual Revolution

The Death Cult's sole means of interacting with society consists of plunging it into a state of perpetual revolution. That's why the Cult is incapable of building. It only ever parasitize existing institutions. Meanwhile, their self-styled opponents in the Conservative camp have proven incapable of conserving a single institution. In hindsight,…
April 7, 20217 Comments
Gaming Ground Zero

Gaming Ground Zero

In which author David V. Stewart takes the Cultural Ground Zero ball and advances it ten years down the field: Maybe you’ve heard of cultural ground zero: 1997.     Now let’s talk games, because unlike other institutions of culture, the games industry kept on growing and innovating for another…
April 7, 202111 Comments
The Successful Failure

The Successful Failure

Holy Week is upon us again. It's become something of a cliché for Christian commentators to describe the current era as the Long Lent, and Satan always doubles his attacks leading up to the anniversary of his defeat. The diabolical sore loser spirit is hard to miss once you've been clued…
April 2, 202110 Comments
Get off the Bench

Get off the Bench

Accurate information is required to engage in any kind of conflict, be it social, spiritual, or--and this is best avoided--physical. To paraphrase Sun Tzu, if we lack a realistic understanding of ourselves and our enemy, we can't expect victory. Time to face reality. The enemy spent the last hundred years…
March 23, 202120 Comments
Abusive Parasocial Relationship

Abusive Parasocial Relationship

Before he was driven into soft exile from every major streaming platform, the internet's court jester Mister Metokur declared that the typical YouTuber's career lasts roughly five years. Happily, that window is closing on one of the more odious byproducts of Hollywood's fealty to the Death Cult--nerd culture outrage channels.For…
March 19, 202134 Comments
Aughts Nostalgia

Aughts Nostalgia

The accepted wisdom among creators in the new counterculture holds that there will be no aughts nostalgia movement as there is for the last decades of the 20th century. Western cultural development stagnated and finally started eating itself circa 1997. Therefore, the lion's share of media products after that point…
March 9, 202131 Comments
A 1980s Loser

A 1980s Loser

... lived like a king by today's standards. Readers over a certain age will remember the house above as the one used for exterior shots of the house from the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. The series chronicled the life and times of Al Bundy, a shoe salesman going through…
February 19, 202121 Comments