Ministry of Culture

The U.S. needs a culture minister. Like Israel's. The actual title is Minister of Culture and Sports and what an important job it is! Israel has an important role in the culture of Germany and we are seeing that played out as the Far Right regains power. “The AfD understands that through culture, they can get into people’s heads, into their mind-sets.” One important part of the job is distraction: keep people focused on things other than genocide and expansionist goals. AfD leaders say as much. “An AfD state government will trigger an overall cultural renewal,” Mr. Tillschneider said in an interview this spring. As in Israel, and the U.S., this is code for anti- Muslim. Then there are the young conservatives in Spain, dressed in their slacks and loafers and dress shirts. they are concerned with the overreaches of feminism, multiculturalism and woke politics as a threat to Spain’s traditional identity. If any of this sounds like the re-kindling of fascism it's because it is, and of course it is trending all across Europe and India and the Americas. "They say that they are on the front lines of a battle for Europe’s cultural and political reversion, with a renewed adherence to religious institutions, traditional gender roles and, for many, the politics of nationalism." In other words, history provides no lessons and it is an important part of the Minister of Culture's job to make sure we learn nothing as a species. Mark Fisher said we should be especially worried when the young stop being full of surprises. What if the surprise is total conformism? Learning to accept conditions as they are so as to get "ahead"?