Broad cultural narratives

It has often been said that the course of a culture can be predicted by its artistic trends. When the dominant art purveyors promote the ideals of malevolent nihilism, should anyone be surprised when impressionable youngsters act on those ideals? If a teenager is bombarded with the notion that values as such are not worth achieving, what options will they feel are left other than to engage in the destruction of values for the sake of that destruction?

Last Friday, Netflix released the first eight minutes of the “Stranger Things” Season 4 premiere as a sneak-peek video ahead of the official launch of Volume 1 this Friday. This opening scene depicts a massacre that involves Millie Bobby Brown’s psychokinetic and telepathic character Eleven and shows the dead bodies of several children covered in blood.

 

It’s Sunday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America.  Giants manager refuses to come out for anthem.  Harris and con-artist race baiter Rev. Al Sharpton at Buffalo funeral.  Dementia Joe lies about Trump supporters again.  The new monarchs.

Animal rights activists like to climb things.  Sort of like Environment Minister Hans Gruber.

The new Transgender Barbie.  Don’t upset the transgender folk.  The alphabet people are running out of letters.

Your morning meme.

” It has escalated quickly, shall we say. “

Year of the Graves: Terry Glavin, on the reaction and fallout to his adventure in residential school truth telling.

For a “mainstream” Canadian journalist to be too closely associated with me right now might be bit dangerous, owing to the bosses responsible for all the shoddy journalism I catalogue in Year of the Graves. […]

Then there are the senior journalists at top-drawer news organizations who have come to me privately. Here’s one: “We in this business have become a bunch of wankers. . . much of the industry decided it knew what was right and wrong, and chose its orthodoxy. Orthodoxies allow no room for dissent.”

It’s Saturday On Trudeau’s Turtle Island

New Zealand’s socialist dictator still lecturing America on guns.  I wonder if she will be visiting Dear Leader at his holiday retreat in Nova Scotia?  And saying goodbye to Dementia Joe’s press secretary.

Trans man sexually assaults three women.  Time to cancel cancel culture.

New York Post reports on the mass Indian grave hoax.

WEF praises fascist China for its fight against climate change.

Creepy Old Joe reminds people that he’s the Commander In Chief.

A diversity is our strength story.  How to spot a white supremacist.  British civil service recognises 100 genders.

Your morning meme.  UPDATE:  Rex Murphy on gas prices.

Lost In The Mail

Via email;

This is a very small story but I thought you might be interested:

I live in a tiny community in the southern California desert. Our voting precinct, located in {redacted] County, has always been vote by mail only, and we currently have 13 registered voters. (The mail is delivered daily to a USPS contract station, a community postal center, formerly a rural branch, which is general delivery only. The clerks are actually my employees and under my supervision and receive daily mail directly from a USPS employee.)

No one registered here has received their ballots and the primary is June 7th. I talked to family members and neighbors and then called the registrar’s office and they said my ballot was mailed on May 5th.

My mother, 84, has lived here and voted here for most of her life. This has never happened before, according to her.

Come on San Andreas… looking for some beachfront property. 🙂

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