Comments on: Why Conservatives Suck at Culture Criticism

By: My Culture 11 Eulogy « Elizabeth Nolan Brown

My Culture 11 Eulogy « Elizabeth Nolan Brown — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:46:30 +0000

[...] write about arts/culture. Whether or not these are valid criticisms (I think the first isn’t; the second may be), C11 was still in beta, and was not yet relying on advertising revenue, meaning any possible [...]

By: Dispatches from the Culture11 Wars at Blog P.I.

Dispatches from the Culture11 Wars at Blog P.I. — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:03:17 +0000

[...] read the site much. And there are bigger problems with the project as undertaken, which Mike Riggs at the City Paper explains at some [...]

By: Useless Dissident

Useless Dissident — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:23:45 +0000

(...aren't very good at culture criticism.)

By: Useless Dissident

Useless Dissident — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:22:59 +0000

I agree with Commmenter #1. And I really don't see this author's point. National Review really is the best it gets as far as opinion goes. And if I weren't a raging right-winger, I sure wouldn't read the same stale 'rebellious' aesthetic arguments all the time. The thing is, I am genuinely interested in the fact that conservatives aren't very good ("suck" is a little strong.) But what did this article tell me? Nothing. It was just an opportunity to echo-chamber the same lines about how conservatives aren't open to new things and they aren't creative, blah, blah blah. Sometimes being open to new things makes you a mindless receptacle for repackaged ideology. And so scared to say anything different that you fall all over yourselves to say the same thing in really hip new ways. Like Sarah Palin SCARES ME! And she's nothing less than a real libertarian. She's what a real libertarian politician looks like. You idiot.

By: Derby

Derby — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:19:19 +0000

2,3: EH is a troll, ignore him. (but cminus, your suspicions about him are correct, as Google can confirm)

By: cminus

cminus — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:24:32 +0000

First, the author of this piece is in fact a libertarian. The fact that you consider him an enemy of libertarianism simply for rightfully criticizing bad writers only serves to prove his point.

It's worse than that -- Riggs actually said that it's the libertarians who write the exceptional pieces at Big Hollywood, the ones that are NOT "grammatically, thematically, and critically terrible". Apparently libertarians can write, but their reading comprehension lags.

Second, how in God’s name is Sarah Palin a “libertarian?” She’s one of the most socially conservative figures in modern politics, and supports all manner of moralistic intervention in the lives of citizens.

I suspect that Eric belongs to the (increasingly dominant) school of libertarian philosophy which holds that no liberties exist other than low taxes, gun ownership, and smoking tobacco in bars. This is why this sort of libertarian marches in lockstep with conservatives and is actively hostile toward liberals -- liberals, after all, seem to be concerned about liberties like the first, fourth, sixth, and eighth amendments, all of which modern libertarians increasingly either have no use for or are actively opposed to.

By: S. Kruger

S. Kruger — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:19:48 +0000

Eric: First, the author of this piece is in fact a libertarian. The fact that you consider him an enemy of libertarianism simply for rightfully criticizing bad writers only serves to prove his point.

Second, how in God's name is Sarah Palin a "libertarian?" She's one of the most socially conservative figures in modern politics, and supports all manner of moralistic intervention in the lives of citizens.

By: Eric Dondero

Eric Dondero — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:44:09 +0000

Yeah, baby, keep bashing us libertarians, and calling Andrew Breitbart's libertarian Big Hollywood "trash."

Don't you liberals realize the more you bash us, the more it serves to embolden us to fight even harder against your Fascist/Socialist policies?

You viciously attacked another libertarian Sarah Palin. But you only caused those of us who support her to be even that much more committed.

Keep it up. Keep up the vicious attacks on the libertarian movement. Please!