"We need to develop our own popular culture." Amen!

Dave Cullen on the need to rebuild pop culture from the ground up:

This sounds fairly consistent with the whole great-divorce narrative of parallel economies, parallel governments, etc. Getting the right side of the aisle off its lazy ass to create that culture, though, is a herculean task. I'm not that hopeful, frankly, and in areas where the right has tried to make headway—e.g., Christian films and music—the result is often cringe-inducingly bad. The right needs to get involved in the making of culture (didn't it use to be?), but it also needs to up its game.