Posts tagged Cancel Culture

The Decline of the Dictatorship of the Commentariat: On the Free Speech Editorial

With the caveat that there has been some well-done push back, this is a major newspaper of record picking a side in our dumbest culture war. I maintain that culture wars are stupid, and that cancel culture isn’t really a thing, but the fact remains that cultural phenomena are given life by discussing them. I’m afraid that, to tell you how dumb it is, I’m forced to feed the beast.

CommentaryCameron SummersMarch 23, 2022News Media, Cancel Culture, Moral Panics, Free SpeechComment

Wars and Rumors of Wars (Time of Monsters #6)

None of this matters. People get worked up about these things that frankly do not matter and then it gets plastered all over social media as people look for the newest thing to be outraged by. They are outraged, because their outrage is profitable to the people who work to influence their emotions.

Analysis, Political, Written by: Cameron, Time of MonstersCameron SummersMarch 17, 2021Current Events, Culture Wars, Doctor Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, Space Jam, Cancel Culture, Moral PanicsComment