If an American film maker or author said that effeminate men were a disgraceful role model to show children in books or movies he would be finished overnight. His movies or books would be burned in a bonfire at every university and Silicon Valley campus. He would be banned on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. He’d never work in Hollywood or have another book published and he might even have his credit cards and bank accounts shut down.
And yet Chinese leaders said that very thing a few months ago. And Russia’s leaders express the same disdain for America’s LGBTQ fetish. Hollywood has catered to the Chinese market for the last ten years at least. They self-censor their movies to prevent offending Chinese sensibilities on politics and social subjects. But when Hollywood hears Chinese leaders saying such things, they keep quiet. Cancel culture can’t go after Xi Jinping. First off because they need his money, secondly because he’s not ruled by Google. China has control, strict control on its on-line ecosystem. In America Facebook can cancel the President of the United States. In China the General Secretary can cancel Facebook, or Twitter or any other tech presence that displeases him.
And moving beyond social media China has its own financial systems that are beginning to emerge out of the shadow of Western banks and the Fed’s dollar infrastructure. Russia has recently negotiated a trade agreement that will allow it to sell oil and gas using China’s yuan currency instead of the dollar. And likewise, instead of Visa and Mastercard, China has its own credit card platform (UnionPay) that Russia will be shifting over to. Perhaps in the not-too-distant future American conservatives might find themselves using that same credit platform after they’ve been bounced out of the American credit systems. We might have to pay a premium to do it but knowing that your livelihood isn’t at the mercy of social justice warriors would be incredibly liberating.
The next thing to explore is the cultural products of these other cultures. Maybe the Russians and Chinese have movies and books that are more in line with the tastes of the cancelled conservatives living in the West. I’d hate to think I’ll have to learn Mandarin and Russian to enjoy a comedy or a drama but technology can come to the rescue on that. Seamless computer-generated voice and lip dubbing could create English language versions of foreign films in the near future. It’s been at least twenty years since I could say that the majority of the best picture nominees for the Academy Awards were watchable. Lately I doubt that even the target audience for these movies are interested in watching these pathetic excuses for entertainment. I think it’s entirely possible that some non-Western country will rediscover the formulae that Golden Age Hollywood used to entertain the whole world in the 1930’s and -40’s. We’re all entertained by the story of boy meets girl, not trans-boy meets trans-girl. We want a crime story where the cops are the good guys, not a story of heroic Antifa burning down Portland.
Sure, the idea that we will have to depend on non-Western countries to provide us with commercial and cultural choices that we can’t find here in the cradle of freedom and land of capital opportunity is a rebuke of our civilization but as a practical consideration it would be the solution we need. At least until sanity returns to the West. Now it may turn out that choices will start to appear in America. I’ve seen that payment processors have appeared that will defy the cancel culture police and cater to the deplorables. Maybe soon movies will be created in America for normal men and women. But even these innovations may be driven to some extent by the knowledge that some non-Western nations are immune to the attacks of the cancel culture warriors. So, death to the global empire and long live cultural diversity, and down with the cancel culture. At least until I get the whip hand, then we’ll see!
It is getting hard to determine who is pointing North on the moral compass.
All I can be sure of is that the American establishment is attracted to chaos and decay.