Stuff like Tolkien or C.S. Lewis are obvious, but other authors, movies, music, or entertainment might not be as well known.
So, how about a thread that lists some recommendations for things untouched by modern insanity?
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If you're looking for comedy, a lot of the old British TV comedy classics are on YouTube now: Jeeves and Wooster, Are You Being Served, Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances and It Ain't Half Hot Mum are all both hilarious and very un-PC.
Also on YT, you can find all of the old Granada Television Sherlock Holmes serials with Jeremy Brett. They're the best Holmes adaptations that have ever been done.
Upvoted for Brit-coms. Some of the funniest stuff I watched in the early '90s came out of the UK and aired on our local PBS channel during that time period. Are You Being Served? and Keeping Up Appearances are top notch, as is Fawlty Towers, and despite Glinner being involved in both of them Father Ted and The IT Crowd are well worth a watch. Just be sure you dig up torrents of all of the above, so as to avoid missing the episodes that the wokescolds have forced off the air because they're "problematic".
Have to say Black Books as well.
Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes is fantastic. I remember reading the stories after having watched the show and being amazed at how much dialog and plot was specific to the show and how seamlessly they weaved it into the core that came from the original stories.
Don't forget Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, who introduced the concept of the Deep State Civil Service 40 years before we had a name for the term.
Saying the quiet part out loud in 1981.
And again in 1982.
Ah, Yes, Minister on the EU:
"The penalty we pay for pretending to be European".
"Britain has had the same foreign policy for 500 years..."
Everything I knew about the EU I learned from that show and my basic observation that it was following a similar trajectory in terms of centralization and consolidation of power as the US Federal government taking power from the States.