The culture curators want to think for you.

Washington Examiner ^ | March 14, 2021 12:00 AM | by Salena Zito,

[Hojczyk]

One of the most significant reasons conservative populism began to rise in 2009 was that these people lacked a connection or commonality with our cultural curators, and they weren't wrong. The people who run things in this country have little in common with the very people who use their products or watch their shows or attend their football or basketball games.

Part of that reason is the culture curator boardrooms have very little diversity — not only racial or by gender, but also in culture. Rare is someone who attended a community college or state school with any input in how something is marketed. There is also a scarcity of gun owners or churchgoers in newsrooms getting dispatched to cover gun control, hunting, religious freedom, or the anti-abortion movement.

When you have little commonality with those you are marketing to or covering, you will often be blind to how they view the tone in an ad, tweet, or coverage.

But the more significant problem is that none of these cultural curators quite care if you don't like the way they demand you think or if you are going to buy their product because their people — the people who think the way they do — are the people who have the largest megaphone.

It isn't cancel culture. It is a cultural dictatorship because the suppression of dissenting speech is an instrument that only the most brutal dictators have used throughout civilization.

Mecs said the right to free speech was one of the compelling reasons his family came here: "It is the very core of American exceptionalism and idealism, and it should be cherished and celebrated."

In December 1860, Frederick Douglass declared that "liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist."

[ClearCase_guy]

There used to be an old joke that the establishment politicians didn’t really like the way people were voting. The advice was that the establishment politicians should elect new people to be voters.

Well, through immigration, that is certainly happening.
And through cultural manipulation (schools, media, news, social media) the establishment is shaping minds to “vote the way they ought to”.

It’s the tail wagging the dog, and they are getting away with it.

[Red Badger]

“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

[FamiliarFace]

Excellent piece, thank you.

[katie didit]

Thank you for posting this great piece.

I hope it gets the attention it deserves.