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People forget because of how hard we've whipsawed since the smartphone,

but you go back to like 2006 and you watch a lot of the movies from 2006

and it's really just kind of this incredibly un-inventive paint-by-numbers, basic bittish, just sort of like cultural mush and and the the fall of like whiteness or

whatever as an identity was I think well underway before wokeness really took off and that conventionalism and that just kind of the spark had started to go out.

People have really already lost touch with their traditions.

You know, a lot of people just couldn't even like say anything

about their grandparents except maybe their names

and what they smelled like, whatever.

And the reaction against that is something that we see now every day on the internet,

whether it's coming from, you know, Griperville or coming from Wookville. And there is this like very deep-seated yearning

among people, especially young people whose inheritance appears to be nothing in so many respects,

a deep yearning to relate in some profound way with those who came before them.

And when all of that just kind of leeches away into, you know,

consumerism and GDP and the Rules-based international order, it's not surprising to see this kind of backlash,

whether it's coded or whether it's coming from the quote-unquote far right or the quote-unquote

far left.

And this is a challenge for America. The Hello and welcome once again to the roundtable, your weekly publishers and editors podcast here at

The American Mind. I'm your host, Spencer Clavin, features editor of the American Mind and

associate editor of the Claremont Review of Books.

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