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I am all in favor of building a conservative counterculture. There is enough truth to O’Sullivan’s Law (“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing”) that we should be attentive to building our own institutional infrastructure. But retreating to the catacombs is ultimately defeatist. We need our own long march through the institutions. We should support conservative cultural content when we find it.

I’m not trying to pick a fight with you, but I am curious about something. There is a recurring theme in many of the movie threads coming from the #$^@& Hollywood crowd (of which I was a part until a couple of years ago). There is a lot of reflexive denunciation of the industry, and many freepers have not been to a theater in years. (This probably has more to do with us getting old than it does with politics.)

But when many of these folks are done grousing, it often turns out that they have a self-curated list of golden oldie favorite films to which they return again and again. And often they also have a favorite tv show or a series or two. With some mental acrobatics, they’ve somehow separated the stuff they like from a generic denunciation of an industry that they loathe.

This often is expressed as, “Hollywood used to make great movies but it’s gone around the bend. They just don’t make movies like they used to.” I used to think this way. Then I discovered that I had developed a huge blind spot. I had gotten a bit older. I rarely went out to movies anymore and I didn’t watch much tv. I really only heard about the highly hyped blockbusters, which I had outgrown, and the films that attracted controversy, often for very good reasons. I had become blind to the good stuff, which was hiding in plain sight.

People still make good, culturally conservative movies and tv shows from time to time. We should support them when they do. The left is culturally, morally and artistically bankrupt. Audiences do respond to non-woke content. The success of TGM is just one example. Our target acquisition systems are broken. That’s why I always ask freepers for their recommendations on good films and shows that they’ve seen recently.

Maybe you are the exception. Perhaps you have not seen any films or tv shows in the last ten years, or at least not any that you would recommend. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist; it just means that you haven’t been paying attention. Which is fine if you have no interest, but you might be surprised if you followed up on the recommendations that do arise here and on other conservative sites.