Someone more knowledgeable than I can help with this but the talk of John Simon got me thinking about conservative pop culture commentary
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It seems to me an argument against the idea that conservatism has been a winner in the cultural wars because (though someone correct me) that conservatives are engaging with cultural products differently than a generation ago
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Maybe I’m wrong. But it seems to me a lot of conservatives looking at much “prestige” TV a generation ago would have dismissed it as culturally harmful even if on occasion acknowledging its artistic or rhetorical skill. Such criticism is still happening of course ...
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But it seems to me it competes with another kind of cultural criticism that is much more like “well Game of Thrones is awful but let’s examine it for the interesting things it can teach us about politics”
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Not sure I have a point here much less a solution but just something I’ve been thinking about.
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Briefly, I think the big shift here happened in the 1940s when Marshall McLuhan (who isn't normally seen as a conservative but in fact was one) pioneered a shift of attitude towards popular culture, rejecting a purely ethical approach for an anthropological one.
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