As you all know, I am obsessed with culture and how we can use it to build, grow and sustain movements for social change. I mentioned earlier in my blog the founding of an organization called the Culture Project that is dedicated to using culture to forward a conservative agenda based around liberty. I signed up for their mailing list, and received this in my box this AM announcing their efforts to get conservatives into jobs in the cultural industries. From the email, "We have to do more than complain about mainstream media bias; we need to infiltrate the media with multitudes of Foundational thinking individuals."

The tone of the email (see below) makes me realize that in addition to a post-election retreat to regional and state levels of governing, conservatives are thinking about how to “dethrone” the left’s influence over culture. Elsewhere in their publications they talk about Liberals as controlling culture and their institution is the only think tank out there to do cultural battle.

Perhaps the culture wars are not over…Perhaps they are just beginning.

From: admin@thecultureproject.org
Date: November 19, 2008 8:15:53 AM PST
Subject: The Culture Project Announces Job Search Links Page
Reply-To: miked@thecultureproject.org

Dear Erin,
Since the election, we at The Culture Project are more convinced than ever that the conservative movement is going to have a very difficult time gaining political power if it continues to think that cultural influence professions somehow eternally belong to the left. 



We have to do more than complain about mainstream media bias; we need to infiltrate the media with multitudes of Foundational thinking individuals.

The same goes for other professions that have powerful and lasting cultural impact on the hearts and minds of the American people. 

To that end we’ve created a page of job search links so that there can be no doubt about the mission of The Culture Project. This is a tiny step toward our objective of one day dethroning the left as the arbiters of the American worldview through our cultural institutions. As we grow there will be many more programs and strategies deployed to tackle this Herculean task, but the journey of a thousand miles . . .



Any suggestions on your part would be most welcome.


Cordially,

Mike D'Virgilio
Founder and Executive Director
The Culture Project
http://thecultureproject.org/