How The Culture Wars Make Us Dumb and Powerless | TaraElla Report Reset

Today, I want to talk about why the culture wars are making us dumber. Basically, it comes down to the fact that culture war politics make many people choose a team based on one or several issues, and they often decide to follow the other positions of that team. What I mean is like, for example, people who choose a side for economic reasons but also adopt all their social or foreign policy positions.

The problem is that, these people are choosing social convenience over independent thinking. It is because of this choice that tribalism and polarization are on the rise. Eventually, a situation develops where those who pick a side and stick with their side all the time become the norm, and independent thinkers like myself become the exception. Politics becomes a battle between two unthinking masses.

A lot of people benefit from this model, actually. The establishment elites on both sides win, because it allows them to build coalitions that don't otherwise make sense, and win elections on empty platitudes. The business elites win, because they can pitch their media products to one side or another, and they can afford to completely ignore the non-conforming independent thinkers, which provides a much easier business model for them. Another thing is, this polarization serves to permanently divide the people, so the status quo still prevails, no matter how unpopular it is. As you can see, the establishment elites really like it this way.

Which is why, contrary to what some people may think, it is not anti-establishment at all to be tribally divided and polarized, no matter which side you are on. No real change to the status quo can come out of that, ultimately. It is also why cancel culture is not progressive at all. Cancel culture seeks to reinforce the divides. By preventing people from reaching across the divides, nothing meaningful can ever be done, and the status quo can never be changed. We should wake up to this reality, and stop being played by the establishment elites.