re: #227 dragonath

It doesn’t speak too well for “gun culture” that Charlton Heston becomes NRA president as he loses his mind.

Hey, I know where you’re coming from on this, but the discourse was broken by people like him and LaPierre. And the hunting culture has swung away from conservation, too.

It is indeed cultural conflict at the core of it. I need to stop here and elaborate:

Back in 2007, a few months before I joined LGF, Fox News had a very good opinion piece that summed up much of the ‘rules of the culture war’. In a manner that would be shocking today given FNC’s bent, the piece was actually quite even handed. Most shocking of all, it poured cold water on the Massachusetts sex education controversy it would later scream about when Obama nominated Van Jones for a government position. When I remembered reading that column in 2009 while FNC was in “OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!1” mode, I think that was when I started to turn away from FNC.

I cannot remember most of that article, but the thing that stuck in mind was its “first rule”: No mercy. The idea being that the ‘other side’ is identified as not just wrong but evil, ans thus cannot be cooperated with.