The bands highlighted in this article demonstrate the problem with modern 'rock'. It is stuck in the everlasting repeat groove of the 1960s. Almost all the influences, both musically and lyrically, come from 50 years ago. It is like the 60s generation trying to imitate the music of the 1900s, strange and rather sad.
Hollywood's demonisation of the white male goes far beyond its need to appease foreign markets. It is ideological. Evil white guys in dark suits are arbitrarily inserted into films even when it makes a nonsense of the story. Take The Fugitive for example. In the TV series, Dr Kimble spends his time chasing his wife's killer. The killer's motivation is purely robbery. But in the film, the chase ends a full 40 minutes before the end and the killer is shown as being a frontman to an evil white capitalist. Or in Lethal Weapon where the evil drugs sellers are the CIA. Or Matrix where the heroes are a multicultural band but all the villains are white guys in dark suits...led by a mr. Smith. In case we don't get the message, Lawrence Fishburne, "you guys all look alike to me."
To Hollywood, business and white men are the source of all evil.
Topics like this are own goals for conservatives. We should support promotion on the basis of talent not gender quotas.
The "miserable social conditions" of these looters include wearing designer clothes and communicating using blackberries.
For me The Fugitive was ruined by its third act, a text book example of Hollywood inserting its ideology -in this case, evil drugs company- and making a nonsense of the plot. It was fun up till that point though.
Islamic "society is largely ignorant and unthinking" I agree but unfortunately after a half century or more of dumbing down the West is not in the position of superiority it should be. If we were now as we were in the mid twentieth century we could defeat these idiots without breaking into a sweat now I'm not so sure.
"If England were run like Cuba"
We're getting there fast unfortunately!
Absolutely bang on. Unfortunately much of the media narrative in the UK is set by the BBC, an enormous publicly funded leviathan with a politically correct anti-American anti-Israel pro-EU agenda (think of an all-powerful PBS subsidised by a compulsory tax). It is worth remembering that Orwell's 1984 is a partial satire on the BBC. Sadly too Britain is a part of the undemocratic and elitist EU and much of its ideology is being impose on Britain (and indeed all Europe) against its will.
We badly need a Tea Party type movement here, but I cannot see it happening until the BBC is smashed.
Wishful thinking I'm afraid Mr Pipes. Ataturk was only able to secularise Turkey using the extreme violence characteristic of the 20s/30s. Even so, Islamism did not go away. The Pahlavi family particularly Reza Shah tried much the same in Persia. The result was Islam took over in both lands, one through violent revolution and the other through the mechanism of democracy, a mechanism which will be slowly destroyed.
If all you can point to as the 'forces of secularism' in Iran are the self-indulgent and self-destructive tendencies of drug-taking, pornography and prostitution, it shows how feeble these forces are. Frankly one would need the iron will and ruthlessness of another Atuturk or Reza to do anything meaningful.
I agree however that Erdogan and co may be constructing an even worse form of Islamism. But I do not think that Iran is likely to ride to our aid at some future time on white Persian horses.
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