Politics Is NOT Downstream of Culture In A Dysfunctional Society

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Politics should reflect culture and not the other way around, but in a dysfunctional society, politics dictates culture from a top-down position and often through some combination of manipulative, coerciolve, or outright authoritarian measures. To fix this in the long term requires a building of alternative sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that somehow become independent in a material way from the politicized structures, but in the short to mid term, merely abdicating the political arena is not a solution.

Today politics, that is ideological agendas, are guiding most American institutions, from monopoly corporate cartels like Silicon Valley to the so-called press and academia, and even much of the church establishment. Political policies, laws and regulations, are driving a societal devolution to libertine anarchy, the atomization of individuals, the breakdown of faith and family, and the increasingly monopoly power of one party and a few corporations.

The Supreme Court ruling on “gay marriage” did not in any sense flow from culture, but most people embraced it rather than defy it and the culture bowed to politics in a really gross manner that further erodes faith and family. Everyone who thought they could prop up marriage and family by purely cultural activities and that this would somehow prevent the state from using “gay marriage” to assault religious freedom and further atomize the individual within a hedonistic culture, was wrong.

The issue as to whether two adults can form any bond they wish and the issue as to whether other adults must recognize that bond are separate, but the Supreme Court enshrined a new definition of marriage, which has always been a sociocultural construct, which it is now “illegal” to even speak against. Politics intruded into the family and transformed marriage into a purely political institution dictated and regulated by the state. The goal was never for people to choose who they loved, it was to eliminate the sanctuary of the home and the sanctity of marriage which offer a ready-made bulwark against totalitarianism.

Our stance on marriage has always been that different sociocultural groups should be free to define marriage and family on their terms without state intervention, beyond enforcing any contracts made. On the other hand, no group or person should be forced or coerced in any way to accept or validate any form of marriage they feel morally opposed to. The goal of the Supreme Court was not to enshrine a right to self-determination in such matters, it was to shift the definition of marriage on ideological grounds and to positively force that definition on everyone. In short, the goal was to end marriage as a sociocultural construct outside political control.

So now we have culture literally being created through ideological litmus tests as to that which is allowed. Your sociocultural and socioeconomic reality and norms are coming through a combination of politically engaged monopoly corporations, who control the economy and discourse in a monopolistic manner, and by politicians and government bureaucrats, whose edicts replace the normal and organic process of consensus and freewill participation in sociocultural and socioeconomic structures outside the control of corporations or the state.

To simply say, as the late Andrew Brietbart once said, that “politics is downstream of culture” is wishful thinking. His emphasis on getting into various structures, like the media, entertainment, and academia, was generally sound, but the channels by which one might re-take these hijacked structures are limited and controlled by authoritarian ideologues.

Political and especially local civic engagement coupled with the intentional creation of alternative parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that reflect our Judeo-Christian worldview and way of life are equally necessary to begin carving out new gaps for freedom where political control over culture is largely absent.

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