====== The Culture Wars ======
**The Culture Wars** is a series written by [[:Mathew Crawford]] at [[:Rounding the Earth]]. It focuses on a combination of absurdity and solutions with respect to current cultural warfare dynamics. This is one of the series in which many of the articles are behind a paywall.

In addition to the articles below, there is an enormous amount of information in the [[https://embed.kumu.io/0546ed3e1e0fec3ac038e97956c6677d|culture war graph]].

===== Effects of the Culture Wars =====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/facelessness|Facelessness]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/culture-war-as-anti-coaching|Culture War as Anti-Coaching]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/flooding-of-cultural-moloch?s=w|Flooding of Cultural Moloch]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/what-extraterrestrials-tell-us-about?s=w|What Extraterrestrials Tell Us About Dishonesty]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/a-historical-theory-about-the-cambrian?s=w|A Historical Theory About the Cambrian Gender Explosion, Part 1]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/a-historical-theory-about-the-cambrian-68a?s=w|A Historical Theory About the Cambrian Gender Explosion, Part 2]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/targeting-as-emotional-warfare|Targeting as Emotional Warfare]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/cancel-culture-is-a-suicide-pact|Cancel Culture is a Suicide Pact: What the Invisible Chauffeur Sees]]

==== Technology and Development ====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/why-is-the-us-losing-the-technology|Why is the U.S. Losing Its Technological Edge?]]


===== Information Wars Aspects =====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-culture-wars-part-i|Pathogenic Disinformation and Narcissism]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-final-variant-is-a-lie|The Final Variant is a Lie]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/what-extraterrestrials-tell-us-about?s=w|What Extraterrestrials Tell Us About Dishonesty]]

===== Performative Virtue =====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/performative-virtue-education|Performative Virtue: Education]]

===== Progression of the Culture Wars in America =====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-culture-wars-part-ii|It Begins: The Balkanization of America]]

==== The Pandemic ====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-apology-the-ama-edition|The Meaning of Apology: The AMA Edition]]
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/culture-war-as-vaccine-promotion|Culture War as Vaccine Promotion]]

===== Solutions to Culture Wars =====
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/cyndi-lauper-as-culture-war-cure?s=w|Cyndi Lauper as Culture War Cure]]