The Absurd GOP

[Rev. Rye]

While browsing TVTropes, specifically the "Sin City" character page, I briefly had an ad proclaiming "Culture is out to get your children!"

Not even "Cancel Culture" or "Woke Culture." Just culture in general. For what it's worth, I saw that they were plugging one of the books in this video (starting around 14:30), where "Culture" is actually the name of a vulture who thinks it's a good idea to turn an elephant into a bird.





I wish I thought to screengrab it from my iPad before it refreshed to a less batshit ad. But it reminds me of two things. One old Rationalwiki article about how neoreactionaries (the predecessors to the alt-right) viewed something they called "The Cathedral":

Moldbug's idea of "the Cathedral" is a recurring theme; it is a "distributed conspiracy", one that treats feminism, democracy, and other "progressive" causes, and the general worldview of educated Westerners, as the current world's version of an established church:[53]
“”And the left is the party of the educational organs, at whose head is the press and universities. This is our 20th-century version of the established church. Here at UR, we sometimes call it the Cathedral — although it is essential to note that, unlike an ordinary organization, it has no central administrator. No, this will not make it easier to deal with.

Even if there's something like this that you could be persuaded to see, it's hard to imagine a proper conspiracy without conspirators. What Moldbug describes looks more like a culture: a broadly shared set of associated social values embodied in shared institutions, symbols, and practices. If you are reading this, you probably live there. This is what he's against.

The other thing is this video from a channel I discovered recently.



For the record, the voice in this video belongs to none other than Adam Lanza.

This is where we're at, people.