If you don't know Chris Rufo, now's your chance to meet him
I mean, read him!
The idea of a conservative counterculture might seem like an oxymoron. The term itself has been colored by the 1960s, when left-wing intellectuals, revolutionaries, and artists captured the spirit of revolt against a supposedly homogenous, oppressive, conformist America. That old counterculture has become the dominant culture, having been absorbed into the bureaucracies of universities, schools, government, and now major corporations. The left-wing culture no longer carries a critique; it is the status quo.
This reversal has created an opening for a new counterculture that challenges the orthodoxy of the “successor ideology” and reveals the hollowness of left-wing institutional management. Though many conservatives have seen the opportunity, they have been pessimistic about its prospects. Conservative critics have long lamented the lack of right-wing pop-culture production; some have rallied to such troubled figures as Kanye West, hoping that dissident celebrities could break through the stranglehold of left-wing ideological control.
But this pessimism is misplaced. The solution to left-wing cultural dominance is neither to embrace any celebrity who casts a glance rightward nor to mimic the artistic production of the cultural Left. It is to go deeper—to rebuild the structures that provide the basis for healthy, integrated human development: families, schools, churches, neighborhoods.
THE REST OF THIS COLUMN IS WELL WORTH THE 3-4 MINUTES (IF THAT) IT WILL TAKE TO READ.
MY 🔥HOT-TAKE🔥 ➡️ HYPER-LOCALIZATION OF YOUR ACTIVISM WILL ACCOMPLISH 2 THINGS: AFFECT CHANGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND BE GRATIFYING TO YOUR HUMANITY. THAT IS WHAT HAVING PURPOSE IS ABOUT.
P.S. MAKE SURE TO PERUSE HIS WEBSITE. BRO IS BASED AND FEARLESS. HIS WORK IS THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED AND EVIDENCE-BASED. CREDIT RUFO WITH SPARKING THE PRO-PARENT MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AMONG COUNTLESS OTHER GRASSROOTS TRENDS.
I love you guys for reading this, but NOT in the creepy-government-school-indoctrination way!
I like Rufo’s work...brave fighter.
I think it would be very helpful if we could STOP using terminology that is very divisive, such as "conservative" and other American terms that are no longer all that applicable...
I would vote for something more along the lines of "radically insane," "somewhat reasonable," and clearly compelling and decent." Yeah, because this ain't about no Dems v. Repubs NO MO. This is about those who don't understand what's being planned and installed for us all (absolute tyranny) and those who DO and are being called "conspiracy theorists" because of how we feel about viruses and jabs...
Some clarity would be great, but we may have to serve that AFTER the first course of "you're cut off from your bank account now, unless you do X."