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				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Yeah, Laura's aunt Eliza tells a story at Christmas:


Eliza was walking to the spring to get a pail of water.  Her dog was with her and started growling and pulling on her skirt with his teeth when she got near the path.  He tore her skirt and snarled.  Frightened, Eliza ran back home and closed the door to her house, leaving the dog outside.  All day she and her three young children were stuck inside, unable to leave the house.  Every time they tried to open the door, the dog snarled at them.  They had no water the whole day and were unable to cook or drink anything.  In the afternoon the dog calmed down and acted like nothing happened.  They walked to the spring together and in the ground Eliza saw large panther tracks.


The books are great because Laura realized that her life exemplified a lot of people's experiences, but also that the past was vanishing and very few in the future would understand what it was like.  She's not the best writer, but her books have stayed in print for a good reason.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 30, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I'm homeschooling my 2nd grade daughter this year due to her autism not being accommodated in the classroom in 1st grade.


Naturally a lot of curriculum is "conservative" and describes itself as "classical."  One thing I notice is the emphasis on how little people in the past had.  The capstone book of the year is "Little House in the Big Woods," which is basically a woman's memoirs of how she had to live as a little girl on a homestead where all the food had to be made, water brought in from far away every day, wild animals to contend with, etc.  Before that was "The Courage of Sarah Noble," a story about a little girl who traveled with her father to cook for him while he build a house by hand on new land they bought from Indians.


Lots of the short stories cover living off the land, working hard, making gifts instead of buying them, being content with little.


If I compare myself with my parents I feel impoverished, but compared to my grandparents I'm ahead and compared to my great-grandparents I might as well be royalty.


There is a lot wrong with modernity but I don't have to haul water on a daily basis or make my own soap and that means I'm better off than so many people, both in the past and now.


I have the sense that conservatives are more aware of this than others (both liberals and moderates) though I don't have hard data.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Closing the strait is the one way they can hurt the US.




You understand Americans largely aren't actually hurt by this.  Australia is hurt by this.  Asia is hurt by this. Europe is hurt by this.  America in general benefits because our oil supply mostly isn't impacted and now we have higher profits on what we export.


I wouldn't say it's immoral to pay Iran, go ahead, be our guest.  But if it were that simple, why hasn't it happened yet?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
All I said is it's more Sanewashed than Elder Gods, which isn't a very high bar.  But I'm not saying this was predicted before Iran was bombed, but rather that of the options available to them now, they might be choosing  to leave the Strait risky because it has created some responses that the administration thinks are useful at the time.


https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2034311772354592874.html discusses it a bit.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
JD Vance would sign up for embarrassing Europe.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
A more sanewashed idea than Elder Gods:


Closing the Strait hurts America's allies more than it hurts Americans.  If we look like we're not doing much about it, the allies are incentivized to build up their navies again and protect their own damn shipping lanes.  Anything that makes Europe/Australia look at the world through more realistic lenses than some rose-colored End of History glasses is a win for sanity everywhere.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The Fire is actually pretty good if you don't go with Amazon's kid subscription but just hand select apps you want.  What is weird is sometimes the tablet would reboot into another kid's account, or even my account (which should have been password protected,) and I didn't find out right away.  After they broke down (as these things do after a few years) we didn't buy more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of March 23, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I think the solution to age-gating would be to have internet-connected devices to have a birth year set on the network card or somewhere that would be hard to reset.  When anyone orders a device online or in person, they have to input the birth year of the primary intended user of the device.  Then internet sites can query the device for (is user > 14?  Is user > 21?) and the device would tell them that and nothing else.   It would be possible to change this setting but the average person would need to bring it into a repair shop to do so.


There are also lots of devices that have age gating features.  Kindle Fire tablets are what I'm most used to - you can order one that looks like Bluey and it comes with a years subscription to a selection of apps that Amazon thinks are appropriate for a given age range.  That said, I have trouble trusting other people's judgement on these sorts of things.


If you want the best paranoid kid entertainment, get a Yoto player and hand select every card.