The New Counterculture?

The Counterculture Revolution is Already Here

Guest Post by CCRider

Never mind the collapse of journalists in the mainstream - abandoning what they used to value, tracking down the story at all costs. They can’t criticize the monarchy, so they stay silent and follow the propaganda machine. And that is why a counterculture revolution is so necessary, too. If they won’t do the dirty job of getting the story then we’ll all find alternative sources that will.

Those who dominate culture now seem to believe they are still the most interesting people in the world with the most interesting things to say. But because they’re so disconnected from the desperate cries of the working class, they can’t possibly tell stories that resonate with the majority.

A counterculture revolution, and maybe even a political one, is coming because the people “out there” will demand it. We’re already seeing signs of it everywhere, but recognizing it requires stepping out of the protective bubble the Left has built for itself. 

Do they really believe on the Left that they can end the Trump movement by convicting him and throwing him in jail? Do they think that’s the best approach to deal with a populist revolution, culturally and politically? Do they think that censorship on sites like YouTube and GoFundMe is the way to quiet the rising discontent of the people they have abandoned? 

Yes, they do because no one has told them otherwise. But you can’t stop what’s coming.

Rich Men North of Richmond foreshadows the coming revolution. The meteoric rise of the protest anthem didn’t get there entirely on its own. The collective voices of the populist Right amplified it and made it an overnight sensation. The song didn’t just resonate with them, but it was a rare experience to have a song speak to their ongoing plight — that they’re living in a new world with an old soul.

How the Left attacked Oliver Anthony tells you everything about why a counterculture revolution is so necessary right now. We forgot what it felt like to hear hard truths no one is allowed to say or sing.

Rich Men North of Richmond could be a song about the fires in Maui or the train derailment in East Palestine. It could be for a father whose parental rights have been terminated because he loves his daughter, who now insists she’s his son. It could be a song for me as I walked around Telluride as an outsider now, a stranger in a strange land. 

The song has now wracked up 57 million views on YouTube in just a few short weeks.

Says Brendan O’Neill at Spiked:

The thing I love most about Oliver Anthony, aside from that apocalyptic timbre in his country singing, is that he’s forced the elite to unmask itself. We live under elites-in-denial. ‘We’re not the establishment!’, cry the movers and shakers of the upper middle-classes, even as they force your kids to genuflect to gender ideology, screw up economic growth with their climate-change hysteria, and dictate with Caesar-like conviction what is and isn’t sayable in the modern town square of social media. And yet in their foaming response to Mr Anthony, they’ve told on themselves. They’ve revealed that they know perfectly well who this red-bearded warbler from Farmville, Virginia is singing about in his rebellious ballads against The Man: it’s them.

That is the power of the counterculture on the New Right. The rules are being made on the fly. A whole new vocabulary of music, film, comedy, journalism, even social media is exploding in the only area of modern American life outside the grip of the authoritarian Left. 

O’Neill closes his op-ed this way:

Why has Oliver Anthony hit a nerve? Put away your essays, park your academic analysis. It’s not rocket science. Working-class people are simply intrigued that there exists a cultural figure who doesn’t view them as the scum of the earth. They can’t believe it. And that tells us everything we need to know.

Christianity is the Counterculture?

The hippies and the boomers never really thought they’d need religion. They broke free from tradition back in the 1960s out of necessity. Politically and culturally, things had to dramatically change. 

But after their revolution, after major cultural upheaval that changed movies, art, science, government, and music, they’ve come full circle in 2023, having replaced their freedom with their own newfound religion and it is just as oppressive and stagnate as the one they once escaped. 

They have all of the money they could ever need, all of the cultural and corporate power, nearly all of the administrative and security state (yay FBI!). But they’re missing something fundamental and it shows. That might be why so many of the voices rising on the Right are also turning to God now, because religion is the counterculture in a country emptied out by “wokeism,” which has nothing to offer us except separating each of us into categories, to demonize all of us based on our gender or our skin color.

One of the most popular comedians on YouTube is JP Sears, whose own belief in God is not something he hides, but something he shares with his millions of viewers, blending it into comedy:

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