Twitter buddy Not John Daker has sage advice for anyone dissatisfied with the SJW trend in professional entertainment.
Let’s talk fixing the culture. Many right-leaning people can talk hours and hours about the flaws in modern culture.
They can talk about how modern culture breaks promotes degeneracy and the destruction of traditional values. Hours and hours are spend on this.
It’s important to point this stuff out, don’t get me wrong. But you don’t win a culture war by merely pointing out that the enemy has 1,000 tanks rolling over the countryside. You win by sending out your tanks to stop them.
What has modern conservatism done to try and win a culture war?
Not a damn thing.
It’s easy to be black-pilled and say, “The forces of the left are too strong! We can’t win!”
I believe we can win.
As mentioned previously, you win by sending out your own culture to fight against modern culture.
This what the so-called conservative movement fails at time and time again.
If you buy a movie ticket to Captain Marvel so you can make a scathing YouTube critique of it, you still gave money to the Mouse. More money = more power.
To slightly misquote @BrianNiemeier, “Stop giving money to people who hate you, or at least reduce how much you give.”
I don’t know about you, but I do not have limitless funds. On my monthly budget, there is an “Entertainment” line that I spend on movies, novels, RPGs, videogames, etc. Even if you don’t have a formal budget, I am pretty sure you only spend a certain amount on entertainment.
Even with limited funds, try to maximize the good you do with your entertainment money. Support creators who do not hate you, or at least don’t publicly hate you.
HOWEVER, I am not saying only buy media that is 100% pro-rightist values that explicitly worships Reagan!
If the creator of something is producing quality work and is not constantly hating you (or people like you) on Twitter, it is probably a safe bet to support them.
So let me circle back to criticism. For every leftist work you criticize, support one alternative. Better yet, two!
It doesn’t have to be as transparent as “New Marvel comic book bad, try XYZ instead”, but try to spend time showing off good media!
“But Hollywood is too powerful! The cost of entry to fight back is too much!”
Let me stop you right there. Remember the “limited funds” thing I mentioned? If I buy a couple of ebooks, I will not be spending that money on a Hollywood movie.
Enough people do this and the beast will starve. It seems small, but enough people do this and it will have huge consequences.
Bring a book to work and read on your lunch break. Maybe someone will ask you about it and buy it based on your recommendation.
That’s the key here. Complaining about SJW works yet still spending money and attention on them does nothing to make a change. If the SJWs won’t change after 3,500 videos complaining about them, a 3,501st video won’t do a thing. If even ten percent of non-SJWs shifted their time, money, and attention to independent works by creators who didn’t hate them, entertainment would change for the better.
Another thing to remember: All your favorite franchises are dead. If they’re not woke already, they will be woke soon, because all professional creatives in the West are either SJWs or under the influence of SJWs. They do not care about profit, they do not care about customer satisfaction, and they definitely do not care about free speech. They only care about tearing down beloved icons.
And before you say “But muh anime! Muh Japanese video games! They don’t cuck to SJWs — they care about money! BASED JAPAN!!!111!!!1,” words cannot describe how wrong you are. Between the global Sony censorship rules, Sword Art Online author Reki Kawahara’s embrace of political correctness, and anime studios’ increasing dependence on American funding, the days of non-SJW content from Japan are numbered; just because you haven’t seen a super-woke anime production yet doesn’t mean wokeness isn’t working its way through. In fact, by the time you see cringey SJWism in a Japanese production, the creative decay is already complete.
It doesn’t matter how much money you gave to them before — you’re just a number on a quarterly sales report. It doesn’t matter how big a fan you are — the new fashion among creatives is to disdain fans who ask too many questions. It doesn’t matter how much you expose their hypocrisy — they have no shame. They feel zero loyalty to you; to them, you are only a source of funds and nothing more.
So support the indies who are trying to change things.
This is my advice for fighting the culture war.
Don’t be a fan; be a shrewd customer. Don’t let social justice perversion ruin good memories of a franchise’s past, but neither let those memories fuel your financial support of a franchise’s present.
At the end of the day, stories are stories, and characters in fiction are characters in fiction. Those characters from your favorite franchise are not your actual friends, and the world that they inhabit is not your actual home. The moment that your favorite content creator talks trash or sells his story rights to SJWs, take your money elsewhere with no tears, no hearts breaking, and no remorse.
Better yet, get the suck out of your system with fan fiction, then hammer out your own original work and relentlessly advertise on socialist media.
A good and sober perspective. Be willing to cut ties with corrupted franchises. They are baubles, not gods.
Here’s the thing…
Off the top of my head: Andrew Klavan. Not only writing a kind of audio drama/play “Another Kingdom” but also wrote the script for Goznell – a movie that came out.
That’s just the first example that came to my mind. Where’s the promotion of either of those efforts? Give me 5 more minutes to search, I can provide more examples. Where’s the promotion or acknowledgement of them? (I’ve met CE Martin and his books are pretty conservative without being overtly political – that I’ve seen so far.)
The principle is good: support the things that are good and true and worth supporting. But you want to know the real problem with conservatives fighting the war?
1) There is a lot of effort put in to keep us isolated and spread out, including convincing our own side that nobody’s doing “a damn thing.”
2) We have our own crab bucket mentality too and constantly dragging down any possible ally as “not-sufficiently right” or just our plain ole greed. (i.e. “There’s no other possible books out there for you, so buy my book.”)
This is what frustrates me about Brian Niemeier and his “I’m the only one doing the work” tone. It’s easy to convince oneself there’s nothing being done if one ignores every victory and soldier fighting alongside.
Keep working, Rawle. There are more of us out there than you know.
I think that’s unfair to Niemeier; he just gets frustrated from time to time. He’s been the opposite of a crab bucket, supporting those of us who throw ourselves into creating original work.
As for you point about “keeping us isolated,” we don’t think the complainers are wrong or sinister, just that they could be doing so much more.
You are correct that we shouldn’t be trashing each other, though — if there are works you think we should know about, DM me on Twitter.
Fair points, Rawle.
Maybe we should do like a spreadsheet on google docs or onedrive that everyone can access and add names to as we find.
CE Martin I’ll go ahead and toss up as the first as one to spread the word. And of course in the movie front, we should forget “Goznell” or “Unplanned” out there.
Though of late I’ve been on a foreign film kick and some of those are well done.
*we should NOT forget…
Is what I meant to say. My bad. Talk about a typo that completely changes a sentence. lol
That google docs idea can work.