Oh Culture War, My Heart is not Your Battleground
Oh Culture War, My Heart is Not Your Battleground As in any war, it is never the soldiers that win the culture war. Rather it is those that sell the war that reap the profits. They sell the uniforms, the fashion, the logos, the slogans, the weapons, the ammunition, the megaphones, and--most of all--the central narrative for the war itself. And the more diverse the battleground the more profit can be generated from the sheer polarity of the discourse. A social and cultural centrifuge spins faster to stratify our struggles into the war's raw materials. We are conscripted into this war not by a military, government, or media, but rather by our own negativity bias and confirmational bias. We are enlisted by our own desire to fight some persistent lurking evil that must be (and must never be) defeated. And in fighting this projected evil we are blind to the fact that we are creating the foundation for the next evil that we (and our descendants) wi...