You create alternatives that people actually want to see. You encourage young people who care about America and its foundational values to take up the arts & entertainment as a vocation. Give people someone other than the Weinstein’s, Moore’s, and Letterman’s to turn to and then you might actually start to make an impact.

Hollywood is a marketplace, meaning that if you don’t like the people or the products they produce, then encourage better people to produce a better products. The arts & entertainment are not endeavors amenable to political style jeremiads and activism. Conservatives have to stop looking at pop culture like it is something that one can “take down” in the next election cycle. One is no more likely to drive degenerates out of Hollywood with accounting after accounting of said degeneracy then one is likely to drive bastards sucking at the government tit out of Wall Street, by proclaiming the creative capacity of marketplace free of regulation.

If we don’t like what’s going on in Hollywood and New York, then writing about how bad things are is much less then 50% of the work that must to be done to correct the situation. The vast majority of the work is in supporting good people, creating alternatives, competing in the marketplace, and offering the public somewhere else to spend their time and hard earned money. Fox News did not get to where it is today by offering commentaries on how bad CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the alphabet news agencies are. They got to where they are today by offering a better product. What makes conservatives think that can’t work throughout the arts & entertainment industries?

We refuse to watch what’s on television … and get more “Reality” shows, Spring Break sex-fests, and dramas fantasizing over prosecuting political opponents over public policy differences (as seen on a recent Law & Order episode). And then we have the temerity to complain that popular entertainment doesn’t give us what we want.

We pull out of public education … and then wonder why students who can’t write, can’t add and don’t know American history, but who are chock full of self-esteem matriculate to our colleges and universities.

I got an idea, why don’t we all move into the Idaho backcountry (or pick the state that still has some wilderness) and pretend the rest of the world doesn’t exist. I’m sure everything will turn out just fine, Islamic terrorist will end, and America will once again know what limited, constitutional government is.

No reasonable person would suggest ignorance and a head-in-the-sand attitude when it comes to economics, politics or international affairs. But when it comes to what actually influences people on a day-to-day basis, namely American popular culture, so many want to play ostrich. One would think that after playing that game for some 50 odd years, folks would learn that it isn’t all that effective.