I feel like I’ve encountered this phenomenon enough times to discern a pattern but not enough to figure out what’s going on. The phenomenon is this: some medium blogger gets linked on here writing a fairly cohesive critique of Americans and I click on some of their other posts to discover their politics are a little off.
In this case I can’t tell you if Iron Council is tendentious and bad but I’m really wondering where the hell this brainwave is coming from:
What constitutes “right-wing art” — which is, by the way, labeling we’re grafting onto this thing after the fact, so it’s actually a very flimsy labeling, but what these pieces of work are doing is telling the truth about the world in a way that is not compromised by artistic or ideological preferences about how these events and these characters and these people, what society wishes were true about these people.
My thing is that if you are telling the truth about the world, then you are going to make right-wing art.
We don’t want to make the same mistake the left did by insisting that art satisfy our political priors. This will distort our creative undertakings in all sorts of ways that will reduce the quality of art and therefore reduce its cultural power (and therefore its political power). Instead, all a new cultural right has to do is tell the truth.
In conclusion, yes I think literacy and reading comprehension are in crisis but on the other hand the author of this blog is a weirdo.
Yeah the article just screamed “right-wing libertarian elitist who writes about how he’s so much smarter than the unwashed masses in order to make him feel better about his numerous social failures”. Interesting to see that my gut instinct on this wasn’t wrong.
Yeah his article about why married women should be more grateful about getting to do more housework is so dishonest. He’s criticizing a different substack article, insisting that his carefully selected quote isn’t leaving anything important out. He immediately just straight up lies about what’s in the rest of the article. Soon after, he cites one study, using two charts from it and conveniently neglecting to mention that the rest of the study he’s leaving out refutes his argument.
Yikes! I checked out the comment section and found it a bit fishy that some commenters were lamenting young peoples’ lack of familiarity with the bible (“the most influential piece of literature in the modern Western canon” as one put it). Also, looking through some of his articles now, I’m seeing a lot of chud shit including this cognito hazard of a subtitle.
Wow, that opening paragraph is setting off the “do not let this couple corner you at a party” klaxon.
My wife inhabits a corner of the internet almost entirely disjoint from my own, the woman part. I get youtube recommendations for wood working and speed runs, she sees makeup tips and fashion. Every site or app that’s even a little algorithmic shows this same basic pattern, keyed in part by our demographic data but more by our patterns of attention. This site is no exception, and she regularly sees and forwards essays to me that may as well come from another planet in terms of how far they are away from my algorithmic cluster. Sharing these gendered feeds with each other is a great source of topics for the never-ending conversation we’ve been having since the day we met.
I feel like I’ve encountered this phenomenon enough times to discern a pattern but not enough to figure out what’s going on. The phenomenon is this: some medium blogger gets linked on here writing a fairly cohesive critique of Americans and I click on some of their other posts to discover their politics are a little off.
In this case I can’t tell you if Iron Council is tendentious and bad but I’m really wondering where the hell this brainwave is coming from:
In conclusion, yes I think literacy and reading comprehension are in crisis but on the other hand the author of this blog is a weirdo.
Yeah the article just screamed “right-wing libertarian elitist who writes about how he’s so much smarter than the unwashed masses in order to make him feel better about his numerous social failures”. Interesting to see that my gut instinct on this wasn’t wrong.
Yeah his article about why married women should be more grateful about getting to do more housework is so dishonest. He’s criticizing a different substack article, insisting that his carefully selected quote isn’t leaving anything important out. He immediately just straight up lies about what’s in the rest of the article. Soon after, he cites one study, using two charts from it and conveniently neglecting to mention that the rest of the study he’s leaving out refutes his argument.
Can’t trust a conservative, folks!
Yikes! I checked out the comment section and found it a bit fishy that some commenters were lamenting young peoples’ lack of familiarity with the bible (“the most influential piece of literature in the modern Western canon” as one put it). Also, looking through some of his articles now, I’m seeing a lot of chud shit including this cognito hazard of a subtitle.
CW: Anti-GSM discrimination, ableism
Just because it can’t make you gay or autistic or give you ADHD doesn’t make it pointless
Wow, that opening paragraph is setting off the “do not let this couple corner you at a party” klaxon.
This is why Heinlein was artistically correct to spend so much time in Starship Troopers ranting about how spanking kids is good, actually.
He fell so far from his first novel, which is entirely about an egirl explaining how communism is based
Which book is that?
For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs
Oh neat, I’m not familiar with that one.
It was written in 1938 but only published posthumously in 2003
No political priors here, just pure, unvarnished da troof. And virtuoso musical styling to boot. Speaking of which, remember Toby Keith?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This is the only piece of this author I’ve read and didn’t check anything else they wrote
I’m not blaming you or anything, I’m just kinda intrigued that it keeps happening.