Showing posts with label Culture Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture Wars. Show all posts
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Narcissism and the culture war
Published in 2004, this essay is still timely and relevant:
Narcissism and the culture war
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Narcissism and the culture war
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The Culture Wars will continue
Gene Expression: The Culture Wars will continue
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Particularly disturbing is their link to the Slate online article, The Gay Culture War is About to Turn Chemical, about the numbers of American couples who would abort a fetus who would be gay ( of course, this is if one buys into Levay's ( and others') genetic "born that way" argument in the first place.) This deeply unsettling theme was explored in the 1997 independent film (based on the play by Jonathon Tolin) Twilight of the Golds starring Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Beals. When I saw the film, it occured to me that this was the down side of LeVay's genetic theory that gays are born that way. It is simplisitc, and has the adverse affect of making homosexuality seem either a genetic anamoly or a curse from God (if one is evangelical or fundamentalist). Thus, it would seem that the right to freedom of sexual expression and individual liberty - expressed beautifully by Paglia in her 1992 Sex, Art, and American Culture , as well as by many other theorists in the '90s - is a better pro-gay theory and stance from which to argue.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Obama : Beyond the Culture Wars
Will Obama Take Us Beyond the Culture Wars? It has been some years since Graff argued in Beyond the Culture Wars for academia's taking the time to emphasize the culture wars in an effort to get beyond them. Now it is 2009, enter Barack Obama: Bipartisan in his ideology, of the thirteenth generation , he would appear to be the ideal politician to heal the divisions which have fractured our culture.Thus far, Obama has seemed to be annoying and pleasing, by turns. both the right and the lefr. What strikes me chiefly is his coolness, his refined calm in the face of the eruptions of hysteria which come on the heels of some appointee which has ruffled the left, or made the right recoil. I would assume that the supremacy of the left bias - the alleged one, that is - and the angry backlashing coming from the right will abate as the economic and global issues dominate, under this new leader, moving like a charmed and regal figure against a
Bush-whacked landscape. Certainly, the '90s era has ended at last ( I beleive a study of decades found that the 50s ended in '64; the 60s in '74, and so forth. We have been tarrying a long time in the '90s, as though fearful of a return to concensus).
One area which will see the greatest change , in my belief, is marriage and divorce. The former will gain in respect - seen as perfunctory and not merely a matter of taste - and the latter will increasingly be viewed as a failure. This is all to the good; in evey sociological and psychological aspect this confusion regarding marriage and gender relating which was the distinguishing feature of the '90s has been a collosal failure, and gay marriage, with its erroneous and weak "love" argument, was a product of this Unravelling-era chaos and ruin. David Usher makes an excellent argument here: http://mensnewdaily.com/2008/05/16/california-gay-marriage-a-state-in-irreversible-decline/
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