At first glance, the title suggests that what I'm saying about the culture war is counterintuitive. How can something be less leftist if it's not more conservative?
I think that over the course of my fighting in and commenting on the culture war, I've concluded where the real enemy is. I'm not saying leftism isn't an enemy at all, but it's the vehicle through which a real issue starts to arise. Fighting that particular issue will, I think, cause people to ultimately reject leftism in a big way.
Earlier in March, I wrote an article commenting on the gaming industry being accused of having a "frat boy culture," and how that term is actually loaded language meant to invite in all manner of activist group action and governmental attacks. Major video game corporations that once defined the industry, such as Blizzard and Ubisoft, became DEI hellholes that produced awful products that no one wanted to buy or play once the ESG infection set in.
As I wrote, what was being called a "frat boy culture" was, in truth, the culture of independent and wild creativity that produced stories and experiences that the left, moral busybodies, and authoritarians alike would consider "unsafe." As I concluded, the intention is to make it seem like women are unwelcome and even in danger in these kinds of spaces:
Yes, male social circles and female social circles operate differently, but I feel like these differences are exaggerated to a point where nothing but the contrasts are highlighted, and one is labeled good, and the other is labeled bad. The next thing you know, the soul of a company is squashed, and the innovation stops. The only thing that grows is bureaucracy, sterility, bad products, and bad blood.
Read: We Need to Protect What's Commonly Referred to As 'Frat Boy' Culture at All Costs
As I said, it's not a female vs. male thing. Plenty of women have worked and still work in these kinds of, what they've wrongfully labeled "frat boy," environments, but a bureaucratic institution or group doesn't want you, or anyone else, to know that. They need the narrative that women are being victimized in some capacity, so they can get their foot in the door and begin spreading around the interior of the company like a virus.
I used a word that I think truly highlights what conservatives are pushing back against in the culture war, and that's "sterility." It is, in my opinion, the weapon by which everything — not just the video game industry — everything is destroyed.
You can track this throughout every corporation that has fallen to the leftist virus. Every DEI program, every social engagement program, and every horrible product release is the result of the elimination of independent character and its replacement with corporate sterility.
To give you a more general idea of what I mean, let's look at one of the most intense examples of the interruption of said sterility, Donald Trump.
Now, whether you love or hate Donald Trump isn't important here. The focus here is on how he influenced the GOP and the general culture, both of which had an overall infection of "safe" and "unproblematic" attitude baked into it. I would say that in retrospect, the GOP had been sterilized into impotency due to its own flavor of "safe." The Bush presidencies were, in my opinion, a solid example of the GOP playing a game by rules that disadvantaged it by every metric.
When Trump showed up, the GOP went through birthing pains that had it at war with itself, but ultimately, it gave birth to a GOP that had a lot more edge and far less timidity. It was no longer reactive, but proactive, and it moved in a way that had the Democrats on the defensive. The Democrats are now the reactive party, and you can see how it's not at all used to that by how it flails politically and behaves like a cornered animal.
This has ultimately shaken the culture overall. Where people used to be scared to speak out against the leftist virtue signaling in fear of being labeled as guilty of a social sin, they're actually embracing the hate and proudly declaring stupid things as stupid when they see them.
Elon Musk destroying the corporate sterility of Twitter and making it the free-for-all that is X is a great example of this, because it broke the dam that held back the emerging independence and creativity of the right and let it flood the mainstream.
One of my favorite examples of this fresh American attitude is a guy named Caleb Hammer, a YouTuber and finance advisor who spends a lot of time smacking around idiots of every variety, including leftists, feminists, and even Islamic believers on his show. He is someone who wouldn't have been even allowed to exist in the online space even five years ago.
It's my honest opinion that pushing back against sterility is the harder task, but it's ultimately the one that moves the needle. Fighting the left always felt like spinning wheels in the mud until we began attacking that weapon directly.
But I want to point out something that I don't want you to miss, and it's the main point I want to make.
We couldn't attack that weapon on the left until we attacked and beat back the sterility on the right. The Republican Party and the conservative movement can, and have, succumbed to its own brand of "safe" and "unproblematic" as well, and that killed the character we otherwise needed to actually stand a chance in the culture war.
If we want the culture to continue to reject this character-killing mentality, and let creativity flourish, we have to make sure our goal isn't to make things more "conservative," but less sterile. The conservatism we seek will naturally come about thanks to Western culture being what it is. So long as we foster that kind of environment, push back against DEI infections, and denounce the safe HR-driven cultures in corporations, I think you'll see a lot more than just the return of conservatism; you'll see a renaissance of American greatness.
