Sultan Knish blog
by Daniel Greenfield
February 7, 2013

The last election has brought on essays bemoaning the conservative disconnect from popular culture and the need to somehow reconnect with it. The means of this reconnection are hardly ever stated, though there is the implication that conservatives would need to "evolve" on certain social issues in the hopes that its economic viewpoint will be taken seriously by a population whose social way of life doom it to be dependent on government support.

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http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/02/...-regularly.html

HIs last paragraph is my favorite. Not sure I agree with his optimism, but I applaud him for making his case. Love the Knish!

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Girls is not America. No television show is.. But the closest to America may be American Idol or Sunday Night Football, which dominate the ratings and reflect the culture far more than it ever will. That's not something to celebrate either.

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I give us slightly better odds if it is SNF over AI!

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The agenda of the left has fit into a comfortable groove in a culture that has chosen the softer things over the harder things. It's easy enough to create culture that fits into such lazy grooves, but harder to create ideas that challenge a nation to choose the harder path and the more difficult choices.

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Reminds me of something I heard before, about the choice of "an easier, softer way!"

Thanks for posting, BTW, always enjoy his articles!

Greenfield has become one of my favorite commentators.

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As plans go, this one [conseratives 'evolving'] is nearly as clever as trying to promote weight loss by opening a cake shop. And it ignores the obvious reality that the only way that conservatives will be allowed to participate in popular culture is as the butt of a joke.

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Changing all that [destructive entertainment] will require thinking about more than what is wrong with Hollywood, but about what is wrong with America.

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Quote: Stewie wrote in post #2

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HIs last paragraph is my favorite. Not sure I agree with his optimism, but I applaud him for making his case. Love the Knish!

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Quote: GourmetDan wrote in post #5

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Quote: Stewie wrote in post #2

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HIs last paragraph is my favorite. Not sure I agree with his optimism, but I applaud him for making his case. Love the Knish!

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There is a reason it is called 'programming'. It sets the culture rather than mirroring it.

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