I run a media company and guard my anonymity in online conservative spaces. Every year I attend and have a voice at very high level gatherings of people in my media segment.
You’re absolutely right that everything should attract young people.
Think beyond film- conservatives have wanted to make movies forever but the work to output experienced ratio is low.
People spend much more time with games- whether they’re on consoles or iOS, there’s a huge gap in the market for cultural renewal. Make your myth systems interactive.
Don’t forget about the toddlers. Gen Z is having kids. Not a ton yet, but they need content for their kids- books, YouTube videos, children’s series on streaming platforms.
Interesting points all. I don't think I'm talented enough to really participate, or rich enough to fund, but I will certainly avidly consume whatever you guys put out.
Interesting. I especially like the emphasis on attracting young people. Though I am now an 83 year old man, I can still remember how important that was when I was in my mid-twenties. In fact I got an idea back then that I've continued to develop ever since. In fact I'm just now getting ready to publish a new book about it. The title is A Part-time Job in the Country: Notes Toward a New Way of Life in America. For those who might be interested, here is the back cover description:
In A Part-time Job in the Country, Luke Lea has penned a popular manifesto in behalf of the tens of millions of ordinary working- and middle-class families in America for whom happiness would be an abundance of well-paying part-time employment opportunities in rural areas where land is inexpensive and families would have time to build their own houses, cultivate a garden, properly care for their children and grandchildren, and pursue hobbies and other outside interests.
To bring this about, he proposes the idea of factories in the countryside that run on part-time jobs, looking not only at the new lifestyle that such factories would make possible, but at the new kinds of local neighborhood communities and small country towns that might develop around them. The result is an American Eutopia* for the 21st century.
Crucially, the author devotes a whole chapter to showing why, with the right kind of wage bargain between labor and management, many kinds of factories--especially those that are most labor-intensive--and be made to run considerably faster and more efficiently this way than the way they do now, generating in the process both higher hourly wages and higher rates of return on investment .
Even so, Lea acknowledges that we are unlikely to see many part-time factory jobs in the countryside anytime soon unless Congress passes new protective trade legislation that will cause American manufacturers to begin locating their most labor-intensive facilities in the US once again.
To this end, he advocates the founding of a revolutionary new type of national membership organization to serve the interests of every dues-paying American who wants to live this new way, a major goal of which will be to compel Congress to pass the necessary legislation to make it all possible.
This pragmatic, shrewdly realistic guide is addressed to a new generation of social activists from across the US who would like nothing better than to launch such a democratic mass movement for change.
"[Luke Lea] is an excellent amateur economist." Milton Friedman
"The idea cries out to be tried." Robert Heilbronner
"This is a doable idea, not pie in the sky." Wall St. business consultant.
Eutopia (>Greek eu = good + topos = place; hence "a good place') differs from a Utopia ("no place") in being a possible as opposed to an impossible ideal, given the existing state of a society's political, economic, and technological development.
I liked the line making > reacting. It isn't just in the context of politics, but for anyone trying to create something lasting instead of just responding to whatever's trending. People are clearly hungry for stories that actually orient them, not just more content to consume.
Though it feels like framing culture as a battlefield where you fight over dropped prizes feels limiting. What if the real opportunity isn't reclaiming old symbols at all, but creating entirely new ones? Instead of picking up what the mainstream abandoned, maybe genuine renewal comes from building something so alive and compelling that those old crowns just stop mattering.
Do you think Community Theatre is a useful venue for our side?
My local Catholic Chuch has a new high school, and the students put on a big production each semester which is some of the best theatre I've seen (it's better than the performing arts theatre downtown, which only recycles woke Broadway nonsense).
Rather than doing modern, progressive plays like Wicked or Hamilton, the kids are doing classics like The Sound of Music, Cinderella, Pride and Prejudice, and some novel plays humorously promoting Catholic theology. Each of these productions has been grander than the last.
Yes. Community theater is great. It's cheap and offers an immediate and somewhat novel experience. Most people under the age of 50 probably have never seen a play outside of high school productions. It's definitely worth putting resources into.
Request for startup: Resource or Blog which curates the best right-of-center dramatic scripts and stage productions, in order to share the best materials with other local community theatres.
If anyone knows of something similar to this, please link below so that interested parties can support and participate.
I run a media company and guard my anonymity in online conservative spaces. Every year I attend and have a voice at very high level gatherings of people in my media segment.
You’re absolutely right that everything should attract young people.
Think beyond film- conservatives have wanted to make movies forever but the work to output experienced ratio is low.
People spend much more time with games- whether they’re on consoles or iOS, there’s a huge gap in the market for cultural renewal. Make your myth systems interactive.
Don’t forget about the toddlers. Gen Z is having kids. Not a ton yet, but they need content for their kids- books, YouTube videos, children’s series on streaming platforms.
I would pay for a booth and go to a conference on the resurgence of art in America. I would bring my books to sell.
Interesting points all. I don't think I'm talented enough to really participate, or rich enough to fund, but I will certainly avidly consume whatever you guys put out.
That's at least as important as anything else.
Bravo.
Interesting. I especially like the emphasis on attracting young people. Though I am now an 83 year old man, I can still remember how important that was when I was in my mid-twenties. In fact I got an idea back then that I've continued to develop ever since. In fact I'm just now getting ready to publish a new book about it. The title is A Part-time Job in the Country: Notes Toward a New Way of Life in America. For those who might be interested, here is the back cover description:
In A Part-time Job in the Country, Luke Lea has penned a popular manifesto in behalf of the tens of millions of ordinary working- and middle-class families in America for whom happiness would be an abundance of well-paying part-time employment opportunities in rural areas where land is inexpensive and families would have time to build their own houses, cultivate a garden, properly care for their children and grandchildren, and pursue hobbies and other outside interests.
To bring this about, he proposes the idea of factories in the countryside that run on part-time jobs, looking not only at the new lifestyle that such factories would make possible, but at the new kinds of local neighborhood communities and small country towns that might develop around them. The result is an American Eutopia* for the 21st century.
Crucially, the author devotes a whole chapter to showing why, with the right kind of wage bargain between labor and management, many kinds of factories--especially those that are most labor-intensive--and be made to run considerably faster and more efficiently this way than the way they do now, generating in the process both higher hourly wages and higher rates of return on investment .
Even so, Lea acknowledges that we are unlikely to see many part-time factory jobs in the countryside anytime soon unless Congress passes new protective trade legislation that will cause American manufacturers to begin locating their most labor-intensive facilities in the US once again.
To this end, he advocates the founding of a revolutionary new type of national membership organization to serve the interests of every dues-paying American who wants to live this new way, a major goal of which will be to compel Congress to pass the necessary legislation to make it all possible.
This pragmatic, shrewdly realistic guide is addressed to a new generation of social activists from across the US who would like nothing better than to launch such a democratic mass movement for change.
"[Luke Lea] is an excellent amateur economist." Milton Friedman
"The idea cries out to be tried." Robert Heilbronner
"This is a doable idea, not pie in the sky." Wall St. business consultant.
Eutopia (>Greek eu = good + topos = place; hence "a good place') differs from a Utopia ("no place") in being a possible as opposed to an impossible ideal, given the existing state of a society's political, economic, and technological development.
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I liked the line making > reacting. It isn't just in the context of politics, but for anyone trying to create something lasting instead of just responding to whatever's trending. People are clearly hungry for stories that actually orient them, not just more content to consume.
Though it feels like framing culture as a battlefield where you fight over dropped prizes feels limiting. What if the real opportunity isn't reclaiming old symbols at all, but creating entirely new ones? Instead of picking up what the mainstream abandoned, maybe genuine renewal comes from building something so alive and compelling that those old crowns just stop mattering.
Do you think Community Theatre is a useful venue for our side?
My local Catholic Chuch has a new high school, and the students put on a big production each semester which is some of the best theatre I've seen (it's better than the performing arts theatre downtown, which only recycles woke Broadway nonsense).
Rather than doing modern, progressive plays like Wicked or Hamilton, the kids are doing classics like The Sound of Music, Cinderella, Pride and Prejudice, and some novel plays humorously promoting Catholic theology. Each of these productions has been grander than the last.
Yes. Community theater is great. It's cheap and offers an immediate and somewhat novel experience. Most people under the age of 50 probably have never seen a play outside of high school productions. It's definitely worth putting resources into.
Request for startup: Resource or Blog which curates the best right-of-center dramatic scripts and stage productions, in order to share the best materials with other local community theatres.
If anyone knows of something similar to this, please link below so that interested parties can support and participate.
Look to the New Cleveland Scene
Dallas mentioned 🗣️🔥
Chicago ignored! Except as implied as part of a general flyover country including all second cities.
I considered including chicago but it does;t really have a cultural identity at the moment.
It used to be the primate city of “Middle America“ also “The City of Broad Shoulders” and ”The Windy City.“
Langston Hughes wrote of Chicago, “where the fog comes in on little cats feet.”
But yeah, the city is kind of oatmeal at this point.