I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.
How do you defend your culture in the face of such atomization? Look at the peoples who don’t have the “benefit” of such hedonist escapism. They still have the capacity to project positive cultural force. All they have to do is resist the siren call of modern media, and their cultural dominance is assured. So many in the west paint these “backward savages” as stupid - and they frequently are - but they have evolved a strategy that will see them through. So who is the true retard?
All true and there is natural globalization and hyper-socialization from technology (Uncle Ted was right) but I think a lot of it can be firewalled through stronger force of law. Most people get their news fed to them from BigTech trending headlines, cable giants, newspapers (even if indirectly), and local tv. They get culture from trending videos, social media, and TV. All of this could be regulated through legislation if we had the will to do so. Make mass media local again. Enforce true free speech online. Forbid companies from complying with foreign laws. Restructure all mass communications to eliminate the fourth estate.
Part of the problem is that most "independent" media is just commentary, rather than investigative journalism, so even though everyone hates the MSM, most indie media just comments on whatever the MSM puts out anyways. And the few people doing actual indie journalism get dismissed as "crackpots" by optics cucks chasing "respectability" and access because when you actually do your own investigating, you end up finding a lot of "conspiracy theories" aka the radical notion that the government does stuff it's not supposed to do and then lies about it.
I think the proliferation of at-home entertainment greatly accelerated the destruction of regional culture. There is so much atomization inherent in people sequestering themselves away to watch Netflix and play videos games all day. How does that not annihilate any sense of neighborhood or community? How many people today have no idea who lives across the hall or across the street? And it starts so young now that we have multiple generations of people never knew anything else.
How do you defend your culture in the face of such atomization? Look at the peoples who don’t have the “benefit” of such hedonist escapism. They still have the capacity to project positive cultural force. All they have to do is resist the siren call of modern media, and their cultural dominance is assured. So many in the west paint these “backward savages” as stupid - and they frequently are - but they have evolved a strategy that will see them through. So who is the true retard?
All true and there is natural globalization and hyper-socialization from technology (Uncle Ted was right) but I think a lot of it can be firewalled through stronger force of law. Most people get their news fed to them from BigTech trending headlines, cable giants, newspapers (even if indirectly), and local tv. They get culture from trending videos, social media, and TV. All of this could be regulated through legislation if we had the will to do so. Make mass media local again. Enforce true free speech online. Forbid companies from complying with foreign laws. Restructure all mass communications to eliminate the fourth estate.
Part of the problem is that most "independent" media is just commentary, rather than investigative journalism, so even though everyone hates the MSM, most indie media just comments on whatever the MSM puts out anyways. And the few people doing actual indie journalism get dismissed as "crackpots" by optics cucks chasing "respectability" and access because when you actually do your own investigating, you end up finding a lot of "conspiracy theories" aka the radical notion that the government does stuff it's not supposed to do and then lies about it.