Surrender and Fight

conservatives "engaging" the culture war

Before forgotten about until whatever next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show brings, a brief word on TPUSA’s attempt at an alternative. Things should be tried and props to them for trying. Though a better strategy would probably be the availability of a variety of parallel mini-events instead of one-on-one combat; the event will suffer more from a variety of annoying needles as opposed to one blunt poke, because the alternative provided… was indeed quite blunt.

While true that I’m neither a country music nor Kid Rock fan, the reasoning behind my dislike goes deeper than that. One of the artists sang about wanting to just drive his truck, drink beer, and fish, presumably not at all at the same time. Essentially, he “just wants to grill” whilst forgetting about everything else going on in the world. This is the same sort of defeatist attitude that’s led to the rampant repulsiveness in not just the Halftime Show but in our culture at-large.

Simply having a desire to do those things is not necessarily bad in and of themselves, but when framed in the context of cultural renewal, which is what the TPUSA alternative was proffered to be, it felt like just another example of conservatives fighting the culture war with white flags of surrender as their weapon of choice while their enemy uses rusty, broken-down cannons. Better weapons are available to wield but nobody wants to pick them up.