I agree. Culture matters.
But culture is downstream to philosophy. That is where we need to focus if we want to move the world towards freedom.
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Indeed.
That means seizing these moments.
For example, explaining that the majority of the vitriol over this is a hatred of objective beauty due to a philosophy of envy. Then, further, trying to then direct those who respond positively to that point towards concepts of objective value, rugged individualism, and cooperation against the poisonous ideologies that seek to replace the beautiful in this world.
“You want beautiful women and art? Well these people want to keep that from you in order to keep you demoralized. The proper path forward, towards beauty and true happiness (rather than self-loathing hedonism), is this way.”
What will really drill it in is a movie that is based on this. It doesn't have to have Sydney Sweeney in it. Just about how people recognize objective beauty and why it matters.
The path between philosophy and culture is art.
Agreed. Sadly, I simply lack the visual art skills required for film/painting/etc. My skills are in literature and music. I’m writing a novel and I write music.
Like my song “beach glass”:
Like a sculpture, glowing in the rays of sunlight,
The glass, a prism for the world
Slowly scraping at the edges
Mocking the vision of this little girl
She watched as her own likeness
Began to fade
As food and poison began to blur
The smallest compromises she ever made
Added up until all that was left of her
Was the glass
To finish the lyrics since I was at work and couldn’t until now
Like a sculpture, glowing in the rays of sunlight,
The glass, a prism for the world
Slowly scraping at the edges
Mocking the vision of this little girl
She watched as her own likeness
Began to fade
As food and poison began to blur
The smallest compromises she ever made
Added up until all that was left of her
Was the glass
Don’t be beach glass, shaped by every compromise
By the current, till there’s nothing to recognize
You are one, you are whole,
Please don’t sell away your soul
Piece by piece
Till there’s nothing left
Don’t be beach glass
I’m our lifetimes, all of us have felt it
All the pressure from the waves
Slowly scraping at the edges
Commanding us to all be the same
The edges we stand on to be who we are
Are scraped away, as we’re carried afar
Before we know it we’re on a distant shore
Cast onto the sand
Can’t recognize us anymore
We’re just glass
Don’t be beach glass, shaped by every compromise
By the current, till there’s nothing to recognize
You are one, you are whole,
Please don’t sell away your soul
Piece by piece
Till there’s nothing left
Don’t be beach glass
I’m sure you’ve heard their insistence some times saying
“If you’d just back down, there’d be less pain to go around
Don’t be so sure, there’s no way you can be so
Just let it go, let it go”
Well I say
Don’t be beach glass, shaped by every compromise
By the current, till there’s nothing to recognize
You are one, you are whole,
Please don’t sell away your soul
Piece by piece
Till there’s nothing left
Don’t be beach glass