Millennials aren\u2019t patriots.\u00a0 And they aren\u2019t individualists.\u00a0 They\u2019re mostly sort of like grade-school children.\u00a0 In fact, grade-school children that went to a really artsy-fartsy grade school.\u00a0 There\u2019s no way we are going to turn them into revolutionaries, ready to storm the barricades in search of liberty.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want liberty.\u00a0 They want a latte.<\/p>\n
But millennials will someday soon be the majority of voters in this country.\u00a0 So even if they don\u2019t believe in what we believe in we can get them to follow us if we can outcompete the woke option.\u00a0 \u201cWhat the hell is photog talking about?\u201d you\u2019re probably saying to yourself.\u00a0 Let me explain.<\/p>\n
Currently Silicon Valley is almost entirely composed of woke companies that have been telling millennials for twenty years that they are not only smart but also good.\u00a0 Google famously had a motto \u201cDon\u2019t be Evil.\u201d\u00a0 Facebook, Twitter and all the other social sites spend half of their time just banning anyone who won\u2019t acknowledge the need to worship the cult of pronouns.\u00a0 Undoubtedly that sort of mean girl social selection activity has a definite demographic cohort that will relish that environment.\u00a0 We call them Karens.\u00a0 And right now, they seem to be the dominant life-form on planet Earth.\u00a0 But as powerful as they are, I think there is a very large chunk of the millennial population that would like something more interesting to look at and talk about than Karen\u2019s latest battle against accidental misgendering.<\/p>\n
So how hard could it be to come up with a site that\u2019s more interesting than that.\u00a0 Look at what Substack has recently done.\u00a0 They provide a platform for (among other things) journalists who are too normal to survive in the woke media environment.\u00a0 Guys as liberal as Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi were hurled into the outer darkness by the likes of Rolling Stone and The Intercept because they thought that journalism should be factual.\u00a0 Not unbiased mind you, but just not completely fake.\u00a0 Now they\u2019re making more money than they did previously by committing actual journalism and providing a service to readers who are tired of being lied to.<\/p>\n
Other social sites have slowly begun to appear to compete head-to-head with the likes of YouTube and Facebook.\u00a0 Rumble, Gab and BitChute are tiny players but they provide a service that isn\u2019t available from YouTube.\u00a0 The market for their product is growing and will continue to do so.\u00a0 And it is attracting people with deeper pockets like Peter Thiele.<\/p>\n
These are the beginnings of competition.\u00a0 They barely register on Big Tech\u2019s radar.\u00a0 But that will change.\u00a0 Better product will draw customers.\u00a0 And honestly the entertainment value of Facebook and Twitter is pretty low.\u00a0 I can easily imagine someone monetizing the audience that exists for reality-based news and entertainment.\u00a0 It will happen and when it does it will attract more than just a right-wing audience.\u00a0 It will attract everyone except for the left-wing ideologues.\u00a0 A good example of that is the recent news that Greg Gutfeld was now the \u201cKing of Late-Night Comedy.\u201d\u00a0 Greg Gutfeld isn\u2019t a conservative.\u00a0 But he\u2019s a libertarian who doesn\u2019t alienate the conservatives who enjoy his humor.\u00a0 He is vague enough about his own personal beliefs that Trump fans and normies think of him as their guy.\u00a0 And that\u2019s good enough.\u00a0 I\u2019d like it better if there were an even more right-wing guy who came on after Gutfeld on Fox News.\u00a0 Someone a little more edgy but it\u2019s a beginning.\u00a0 If Fox News were smart, they\u2019d give the Babylon Bee guys their own show too.\u00a0 Of course, they currently have a YouTube channel of their own but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if YouTube eventually shut them down.\u00a0 They\u2019re that funny I assume they\u2019ll be considered a threat.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s my point.\u00a0 The Left has become \u201call fake all the time.\u201d\u00a0 In the long run that becomes quite boring.\u00a0 It can be outcompeted in a marketplace of ideas.\u00a0 So, all we need to do is create that marketplace and let reality do the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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