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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023

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Another issue is that when needed they are all coordinated to cover up or create urgency.

The joke at the time 'Oh it's Ukraine season? I still have my Covid decorations up'

illustrates this state of affairs, where the American/Western media overwhelmingly talks about the same thing at the same time, to take over the mind of the people.

Then they claim that there is such a thing as democracy, while the majority of people get their opinions fed directly from the same sources, with a handful of billionaires controlling all large corporate media that is allowed to have bank accounts and appear on the internet.

The recent Biden classified documents 'scandal' is another example.

The initial find was on November 2.. Right before the Midterms.

But we did not see it in the media before the end of the election of the speaker of the House.

Compare this to the leak of the Roe v. Wade overturning before the Midterms.

Finally, here is a critique of this article on unz.com.

I will quote just the end:

second opinion, from Paleo Retiree, who worked for decades at a major weekly news magazine. After I wrote about the bronze statue boom of the last third of a century, which I’ve seen with my own eyes all across the country but can’t recall ever reading about in the national press as a subject worthy of art criticism, he responded:

BTW, there’s a surprisingly big world out there of gifted people — architects, painters, composers, poets, etc — creating delightful, solid and beautiful stuff in trad kinds of ways. I’ve met a bunch of them. The reason your average American culturefan isn’t aware of this activity is that the press doesn’t cover it, so you aren’t being told about it. You won’t know about it if you don’t stumble into it yourself.

You can trust me on this, btw: back in the ‘90s I pitched a lot of story ideas about the various New Traditionalisms to a lot of different editors, and 99.9% of the time my ideas were shot down. I had to have had the worst batting average of any arts reporter ever, lol.

You’d think editors of arts sections and arts publications would find such people and developments interesting, and would want to explore them and tell readers and viewers about them. But no: in fact what I found was that the editors and producers (and the people behind them) who run the discussion about the arts in our country aren’t interested in mere reporting, let alone in giving their readers and viewers a fair picture of what’s really going on culturally in the world. They’re interested in dictating terms and promoting agendas. A few scales fell from my eyes. It’s almost like the entire news business generally!

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