I wouldn't say it's important, because nothing that happens on this site is, but it is about time you admit your arguments rely on your subjective feelings. Good for you for finally getting that off your chest. There we have it folks. She finally admits to what I've been saying for pages now.
With this: "nothing that happens on this site is (important)" I must disagree. What happens on this forum is, to quote Shakespeare, "The abstract and brief chronicle of the time". What
happens here opens a window to see into the mental, conceptual, perceptual, and also the spiritual inner-dimensions of the people who determine what goes on in the cultural sphere.
I admit to you that to look into this *window* produces dismay and sadness because the levels and depth of idiocy are really alarming when one has something of a superior sort to compare it with. The level of social and cultural discourse that is possible is dragged down into ridiculous mud by so many people who are *captured* by mindless impulses. But what this means -- what I take it to mean -- is that we are all deficient, that we are all *afflicted*, and that we all suffer as a result of *dumbing-down* (to quote C. Iserbyt).
But how can I illustrate this to you -- *scientifically*? It cannot be done. When I say *dumbing down* I do not mean that the IQ of people has been diminished, that is unlikely. It is that they are not exposed (enough) to a rigorous intellectual program. But there is more in my view. And I have spoken of this directly to you in the past and you no more understood it then than you will be able to now! It has to do with the effect of disconnection from metaphysical influences on which intellect (
intellectus) is established and depends. You have lived into your fourth decade, brutish Caliban, and you have not been able to discern any of this! You will not get it now and you will not get it during the duration of the years left to you, so it would appear!
But that does not mean that other people cannot *get it*. This is why I say "You are perfect for all this". I fiddle, you dance.
When we deal on *The Culture Wars* we are dealing, essentially, on metaphysical questions! Now when I refer to metaphysics in this sense I mean 'higher dimensions of thought' and not necessarily the realm of God or of the angels. Metaphysics is a complex topic. For the sake of this exposition, then, the defining elements in The Culture Wars turn on 'value & meaning'. And value & meaning are metaphysical.
Are they *real* in the sense that your car sitting there on the street is real? No. Yet they have tremendously more power and relevance than any object in the physical world. Because they have to do (and are located in)
psyche. Don't bother to click, don't bother to read, it will strain your too-strained mind! Just know that it is the psyche of man that moves the entire world! Everything that is of our world, man's world, extends from the psyche (though how the psyche is defined varies).
So *subjective feeling* cannot be shunted out of the picture, not by any means. However, what is felt and the way it is felt and expressed can be examined. Must be examined. And here we must refer to 'the discerning self'. A self that is capable of self-seeing, self-analysis. And who shall we bring forward as an example of this? Who? The shrieking girl? That bellowing lunatic who heard the bad news of Trump's win and Hilary's loss and melted down into a tragic emotional puddle?!?
I ask you to please use a part of your mind and intelligence that I believe I can guide you to and that I can rely on to at least imagine it possible that you see, if only dimly, what I am getting at here. Do I have to repeat this
again & again & again & again and to observe that you simply cannot understand the most basic and necessary things!?
Yes,
obviously, but long ago I resolved myself to the task. I will not give up on you as long as you show even the dimmest will.
When we deal within the domains of *meaning & value* we are firmly within subjective territory. But this does not mean a territory of *whatever* or of *anything*. One subjectivity -- let us say that of a brute -- is not equal to the subjectivity of an advanced, cultured, sensitive, intellectually trained, literate person. And I did mention to you an exponent of a very advanced English school Mr Aldous Huxley. There you have a man who dealt in *subjective territory* but who did so having all the skills I mentioned.
So now I have *set the stage* to be able to talk about all that stands behind The Culture Wars. But you will not be able to go any further than your scandalous obstinacy!
But
other people read here . . .