The War On Culture

27 January, 2006. 339 words.

[Originally posted January 6, 2006.]

Wow, GK really took Mark Steyn’s silly Demography article pretty seriously. On January 5, in The culture war, he proposed a movement for conservatives to “have lots of kids and homeschool them.” (I assume he means male kids.)

I hope it goes without saying that I think his proposition is silly. What really interested me about his post, though, was the phrase “win the culture war.” Mainly because I wasn’t even aware that we were at war. Apparently, not only am I fighting a war on terror, but I’m also fighting a war on culture-all while I’m sitting here typing at my computer. (Can I multitask or what?)

Since I was unfamiliar with this so-called culture war, I went to Wikipedia to look for information on the subject. Sure enough, there was an entire page devoted to the “culture war.” (Surprisingly, most of it was spelled correctly.)

I find it disturbing that people are out there trying to “win” a war that I didn’t even know I was in. (I also find it disturbing that people are bothering to fight over ideals, but that’s another story.) I find it disturbing that the main ammunition in this war is spin, persuasion, and propaganda. I find it extremely disturbing that there are enough gullible people in the world to make it worthwhile for the warring sides to fire all of this ammunition, over and over again, in endless streams of op-ed pieces. Some people are even gullible enough to pay for subscriptions to the ammunition that is killing them. More proof that war is good for the economy, I guess.

Most of all, I find it disturbing that the combatants are treating me and my brain like territory to be conquered. Nobody asked me if I thought we should go to war; I don’t remember any vote on the subject. Honestly, I don’t particularly want to devote any of my time to it. So there.

Excuse me, I have to get back to the terror war.

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