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maybe I'm gonna need to write that essay about Friday Night Lights after all https://twitter.com/michaelianblack/status/1337015041858674691
...and I don't really mean that to dunk on Black, I think it just highlights a blind spot that I see a lot
OK, I gotta get this out of my system, I guess. It's nuts to me that someone who a) works in the entertainment industry and b) tries to position himself as someone who thinks about it would ask "what does conservative culture look like?" when it's all around him
As Dan as saying here: every goddamned scripted show on CBS is there to show you how great cops and troops are, and that the world is full of scary crime https://twitter.com/soundingline/status/1337398125774901248?s=20
As I was saying in my initial dunk: Friday Night Lights, which was (mostly) a good show that we all (mostly) loved, was also very much a showcase of how non-movement conservatives think the world works
Video games are culture. The fact that the other day I saw a goddamned bag of Doritos advertising to me that I can play the one where you do first-person shooter spy missions for Ronald Reagan, well, pal, that's conservative culture
I'm not gonna go through item by item. But: media that centers the imaginary status quo of the past, or centers cops as your pals, or exalts the strong over the weak, that's conservative media
Although I'll say this: the TLJ freakout, with manbabies fighting to defend a cultural niche that they thought was theirs, and the subsequent acquiescence of RoS, well... only one party was using "Death Star" as a metaphor in the election runoff
(I'm not saying Star Wars is natively conservative culture--TLJ certainly isn't--but it sure has been adopted by some conservatives)
(oh, oops: election runup, not runoff; I have Georgia on my mind)
