Over the weekend a very mediocre British musician by the name of Sam Smith attempted to generate controversy by dancing in satanic garb while performing at the Grammy Awards.
It is for this reason that our culture has become so boring.
Reboots, remakes, remixes, sequels, prequels, attacking the same cultural pillars... nothing new is being created because they’re utterly bereft of any creativity.
They’ve only been taught that everything is ugly, they don’t understand beauty.
As you say, I hadn’t at all noticed that the Grammys had even been broadcast. They evidently didn’t get the memo that relying on shock value is only a short term path to relevance with diminishing returns.
"But when a cultural movement’s only trick is the deconstruction of the culture that came before it, that movement is living on borrowed time." 100% true. An 18yo proudly declared to me recently that they were going to "tear everything down." The question is, do they have the creativity, stamina, will, and focus to build anything?
When Madonna came out with her 2005 hit single, Hung Up, it was still a spectacle and talk around the circuit that a nearly 50 year old woman could and would still be gyrating so suggestively in such scantily clad garb. And to be fair, she could still pull it off physically, regardless of what one thinks about the spiritual aspects of it. Now in 2023, it's hard to imagine anyone batting an eyelash at it. More likely, anyone who even mildly suggested it might be anything less than stunning and brave, would be piled on and attacked by every mainstream pop culture organ.
He's just the latest creation of Tavistock for their "future shock" progam, the Beatles who had lyrics by Ardorno were one of it's first. Divide the generations by cultural psychological warfare.
"Progressivism is a cultural vampire feeding on the bones of a once-great Christian culture, but as it cleans the last bit of marrow from those bones, it becomes desperate."
"If your cultural movement is built entirely on deconstruction, once you exhaust the energy generated by outrage, the only thing left to do is make the deconstruction of the ritual a ritual unto itself.
Progressives have created sacraments for themselves like transition, abortion, and coming out, but these rituals lose all of their animating energy when the forces they were aimed at no longer hold cultural sway."
Inside those circles they do as well. The difference between a progressive atheistic Jew and an orthodox Jew are farther than a Traditional Catholic and Jew.
Its just that the traditional Jews arent the ones in control of the media
It is for this reason that our culture has become so boring.
Reboots, remakes, remixes, sequels, prequels, attacking the same cultural pillars... nothing new is being created because they’re utterly bereft of any creativity.
They’ve only been taught that everything is ugly, they don’t understand beauty.
As you say, I hadn’t at all noticed that the Grammys had even been broadcast. They evidently didn’t get the memo that relying on shock value is only a short term path to relevance with diminishing returns.
Madonna has been rebelling against her catholic upbringing for 40 years now. To see that prosthetic crone still doing the same thing is just sad
"But when a cultural movement’s only trick is the deconstruction of the culture that came before it, that movement is living on borrowed time." 100% true. An 18yo proudly declared to me recently that they were going to "tear everything down." The question is, do they have the creativity, stamina, will, and focus to build anything?
When Madonna came out with her 2005 hit single, Hung Up, it was still a spectacle and talk around the circuit that a nearly 50 year old woman could and would still be gyrating so suggestively in such scantily clad garb. And to be fair, she could still pull it off physically, regardless of what one thinks about the spiritual aspects of it. Now in 2023, it's hard to imagine anyone batting an eyelash at it. More likely, anyone who even mildly suggested it might be anything less than stunning and brave, would be piled on and attacked by every mainstream pop culture organ.
…and yet, Jesus still holds out His hand of reconciliation and forgiveness.
He's just the latest creation of Tavistock for their "future shock" progam, the Beatles who had lyrics by Ardorno were one of it's first. Divide the generations by cultural psychological warfare.
Nice article, irritating I have to go to the blaze to read jt. No thanks.
I go just to read Auron. I want him to succeed.
It’s worth it, though. And yeah, I find the Blaze’s ads annoying but I can’t blame the author for wanting to get paid for his work.
Deprive Cheeto-Face Glenn Beck of revenue by installing the Ublock Origin ad blocker.
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Damn this is some powerful writing.
Some of your best lines:
"Progressivism is a cultural vampire feeding on the bones of a once-great Christian culture, but as it cleans the last bit of marrow from those bones, it becomes desperate."
"If your cultural movement is built entirely on deconstruction, once you exhaust the energy generated by outrage, the only thing left to do is make the deconstruction of the ritual a ritual unto itself.
Progressives have created sacraments for themselves like transition, abortion, and coming out, but these rituals lose all of their animating energy when the forces they were aimed at no longer hold cultural sway."
Well done
Everything else aside, the song sucks.
Riffless garbage/10.
Inside those circles they do as well. The difference between a progressive atheistic Jew and an orthodox Jew are farther than a Traditional Catholic and Jew.
Its just that the traditional Jews arent the ones in control of the media
https://twitter.com/Tempest1610/status/1624806437355388935
like this for example (there are countless)