Posted on 02/18/2011 10:20:19 PM PST by wku man
As I've said before, kids don't surf the Heritage Foundation website, they don't listen to Beck or Hannity, and they don't watch Fox News. They listen to rap and "death metal", watch movies and reality TV, play video games and daydream they're LeBron James. If they get any "news" at all (and I seriously doubt the kid who calls Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker 'that dude' is a news consumer), it comes from Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.
Pop culture is the way we're going to have to reach them. We've got to deliver our message in an envelope they'll actually open. We've got to reach them on the dance floor, the mosh pit, in their cars, at the movie theaters, and through their X-Boxes. Otherwise, all our words are going to sail over their heads, in one ear and out the other, and will sound like Charlie Brown's teacher.
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Our culture has suffered over the past many decades. Culture is what drives legislation, not the other way around. Listen to some old Yuri Bezmanov interviews if you need more reason to be depressed (and enlightened).
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I thought South Park does an excellent job. I watch this while I was still a kid, not knowing the difference between left and right
If it’s “pop” then it probably can’t be conservative.
They get de-programmed by life. Don’t you remember?
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Besides, we don't have time to wait for them to somehow become naturally de-programmed. We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we'd better get started yesterday.
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That's a declaration of surrender. Was Roy Rogers pop culture? I think so! I recall seeing, in recent years, a clip of Roy Rogers addressing the youth of the nation in some routine capacity. I don't recall the actual phrase ... "Shun radical thinking" ... or "avoid radical thinking" ... something like that. I remember it because it was already such a remote idea, probably in the 1980's.
Exactly the point. If we don't fix the culture of Generation.com, the legislation they pass will destroy what's left of this nation (if we survive Generation X, that is...and I say that as an Xer).
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Conservatives don't really need slick “brainwashing” tricks to combat the attempts of pop culture to subvert our children.
Truth and honesty tend to suffice.
I taught my child to look critically at school, art, music, movies, and also religion, and to be aware that many factions will try to “brainwash” her to accept pop culture as normal and desirable.
Conservatives don't need slick tricks to “creatively” combat pop culture.
We live in the real world.
So do our children.
You are either not a parent, or you are an inadequate parent, if you really think “brainwashing” children is a good thing.
Conservative writer/pundit/journalist and used to be Freeper Michael P. Tremoglie called for this at least six years ago.He was villified by Freepers for it.
From Michael P. Tremoglie Human Events July 2005
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=8024
From Tremoglie Tea Time Blog five years later
http://tremoglieteatime.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-liberals-control-popular-culture.html
Tremoglie started a Facebook page Creative Conservative Corner which he recently closed because of a lack of participation by conservatives.
So good luck dude trying to get conservatives to move. I remember when the July 2005 article by Tremoglie urging conservatives to get into the pop culture a lot of Freepers villified him. Like I said good luck.
Good for you. I guess every other parent in the nation is just like you, and every other teenager is just like your daughter, right? That must be why young voters overwhelmingly voted for the Obammunist in 2008. That must be why the kids and college students in the videos are calling Gov. Walker a "Nazi" and a "dictator", because they're such believers in responsible government and the rule of law, right?
Look, if you don't like pop culture and don't want you daughter exposed to it, fine...that's your call. But contrary to what you seem to believe, the overwhelming majority of kids and young people like pop culture, they devour it, they live for it, and are overwhelmingly influenced by it. You may think that what is proposed in the article is "slick brainwashing" or some kind of underhanded trick to fool kids, but just how is packaging a conservative message in a form that appeals to young people "brainwashing"?
I don't think you read the article, but thanks for commenting on it nonetheless.
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In 2008, when Juan Insane McCain said he didn't even know how to send an e-mail, he probably lost every voter under the age of 25. The GOP ignored social networking media in 2008, and got its "fourth point of contact" handed to it. Even today, there are FReepers who scoff at the idea of signing up for a Facebook account. Fortunately, state-level think tanks and conservative bloggers got the message and began using social networking media to spread their messages, and it worked in November.
I believe music, movies, video games and sports are like social networking media...incredibly powerful tools that we're ignoring at our own peril. Not just our peril, but that of our nation's future. One would think that after the last two years, those FReepers who bash the idea of conservative pop culture would climb out from underneath whatever rock they've been thinking under, and start looking for effective ways to save our country from disaster. Apparently not all have, though.
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“They get de-programmed by life.”
Excellent point. Parents and grandparents should stop financing teens and young adults who spout “revolution” while spending other people’s money. That’s where we get government union thugs and societal leeches like the Obamas and Ayreses.
Gotta love the "GREG-A-LOGUE"...
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