complementary agendas and motivations and the culture war

When you look at the social and cultural disintegration of the West, especially things like the promotion within our schools of aberrant sexual lifestyles, it is tempting to look for a single explanation and a single villain (or rather a single set of villains).

In fact it’s likely that there are multiple agendas at work, or it might be more accurate to say there are multiple motivations that lead people to support such agendas. None of these agendas or motivations has any connection with Marxism or Cultural Marxism or the Frankfurt School or some sinister Jewish conspiracy. These are the explanations favoured by the Right, and especially by the Dissident Right, but they’re ludicrously off base.

There’s no question that there’s an agenda being pushed by the elites, by very rich and powerful individuals and corporations and by very high-level members of the managerial class. The objective is to keep people distracted with relentless attacks on the cultural front so that they don’t notice how much power and wealth has been concentrated in the hands of the elites. For the elites the culture war matters very much but it is not an end in itself, merely a means to an end.

But the elites have a number of allies willing to assist them in their culture war. There are the wannabe elites, people who are actually middle-class and in some cases even lower middle-class but who are desperate to identify themselves with the elites. For schoolteachers, social workers, low-level bureaucratic functionaries, freelance journalists, non-tenured academics and others the culture war is a way to gain status. For these people virtue-signalling appears to be the one certain means of gaining status.

There are also the marginal elites, the people on the fringes of the elites. Media types, academics, middle-ranking bureaucrats, middle management types, IT professionals. For these people fighting the culture war is a means of demonstrating their loyalty to the elites. They have no real power and no real security so unquestioning loyalty to those in power is a matter of survival.

Of course there are also the special interest groups themselves. There are groups which seek to normalise abnormal sexual behaviours because it’s in their interests to do so. There are groups which benefit directly from policies like open borders (not just immigration lawyers but small armies of people whose livelihoods depend on being part of the immigration industry). There are libertarian zealots. There are virtue-signalling Christians. These are fairly small groups however and could achieve little without the support they gain from the marginal elites and the wannabe elites.

It is the elites, and more especially it is Woke Capital, providing the money that fuels the culture war and setting the primary agenda but they need foot soldiers and those foot soldiers have varying motivations. There is no necessity to invoke conspiracy theories. Conspiracies are difficult to organise and involve high risks. Why bother with them when all you need is a knowledge of normal human motivations – the desire to advance selfish personal interests, the desire to grovel to authority, the desire to gain status.