When multinational corporations began sponsoring Pride™ parades in the middle of the last decade and the U.S. State Department began flying Pride™ flags from its embassies the world over, I, perhaps like many people, was perplexed.
“What important interest does Goldman Sachs have in advancing homosexuality?” I asked myself.
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“What diplomatic purpose does displaying fidelity to a weird sexual fetish subculture serve?”
Ditto with BLM and the Summer of Love.And third-wave feminism.
What an odd marriage — corporate America and Antifa.
Does anyone actually believe some coked-up C-suite Wall Street executive actually cares about a dead Minneapolis junkie, black or not?
Upon reflection, there are probably several reasons that corporations and governments are interested in these various social engineering schemes — the infiltration of the DEI blackmail grift into every facet of society, for one: “Give me cash, or I’ll tell everyone you’re racist” — but chief among them, in my estimation, is the ancient strategy of divide and conquer, perfected by the British empire hundreds of years ago and supercharged by modern mass media propaganda.Via University of Aberdeen (emphasis added):
British rule was certainly to a large extent based upon dividing the local population. Therefore, the empire de facto benefited from the hostile and rivalrous relations between two communities…. Tertius gaudens literally means a rejoicing third that is, a party that benefits from a conflict between two other parties.
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Basically, finding wedge issues — i.e., culture war footballs — and then pitting the various factions against one another is highly effective for a.) distracting from issues the ruling class would rather go untouched and b.) maintaining the façade of democracy and robust public debate without ever broaching issues that might unite the populace at large against an abusive and treacherous ruling class.
Let’s look at the transgenderism phenomenon as a microcosm of the culture war, and what it potentially distracts from.
Of course, there is a clear sociocultural element at play — the “trans contagion” — but perhaps there’s a biological one as well.
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Alex Jones caught a lot of flak back in the day with his bombastic “they’re turning the friggin’ frogs gay!” rant.
But it turns out he was entirely accurate about the very real endocrine-disrupting effects of atrazine, not to mention BPH and a thousand other chemicals we are steeped in, likely extend to humans as well.Via Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (emphasis added):
Atrazine is the most commonly detected pesticide contaminant of ground, surface, and drinking water. Atrazine is also a potent endocrine disruptor that is active at low, ecologically relevant concentrations. Previous studies showed that atrazine adversely affects amphibian larval development. The present study demonstrates the reproductive consequences of atrazine exposure in adult amphibians. Atrazine-exposed males were both demasculinized (chemically castrated) and completely feminized as adults. Ten percent of the exposed genetic males developed into functional females that copulated with unexposed males and produced viable eggs. Atrazine-exposed males suffered from depressed testosterone, decreased breeding gland size, demasculinized/feminized laryngeal development, suppressed mating behavior, reduced spermatogenesis, and decreased fertility.
So there’s a direct, physical phenomenon in the real world, independent of whatever social engineering schemes, that has very likely contributed to the explosion of so-called transgenderism among kids.
Campaigning to get hormone-wrecking chemicals out of the water and food supply would, in a sane world, be at least as front-and-center as the debate over transgender bathrooms or boys taking over girls’ sports.
But it isn’t, probably because endocrine disruptors and their physiological effects are both more complicated to understand and less salacious than bathroom trannies, and focusing on the latter doesn’t threaten giant agricultural interests that have a stranglehold on American politics.
Apply that same framework to the political discourse as a whole, and we have a pretty good model for why the culture war is so popular.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are more than happy to fan the flames of the culture war because social issues are lower-stakes than the ones that matter most to their donors — the economic.
Not being blameless myself, I admittedly devote a lot of attention to the culture war, because:
- It’s low-hanging fruit.
- It’s interesting from a sociological perspective.
- It isn’t totally inconsequential.
So I’m throwing rocks from glass houses.
But maybe we should all rethink our priorities.
