“Culture War” is a phrase that has been used for a long time in our civilization. In fact, it gets a lot of people, centrist normies for the most part, rolling their eyes. They (rather rightly) associate the Culture War with shouting, conflict, and propaganda.

But there are a lot of other things to the Culture War. Art, entertainment, and the dissemination of information of all kinds. Whether you take part in the culture war or not, it most certainly effects you, directly or through other people.

And lately, the Culture War seems to be heating up. People lose jobs and have their reputations smeared over the most minor of slights. Mind viruses and thought poison abound, dished out by the very evil and very ignorant, with tragic consequences (Gen Z has the highest suicide rate of any generation). It feels like practically every franchise is peddling propaganda that would have been considered absurd a decade or two ago.

Things are lopsided and things have gone wrong. This journal is for exploring the dank, memory holed corners of the culture that may provide insight, relief, and just maybe, cures.

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Ian Nol is a historian, globetrotter, starving artist in various mediums, and culture war analyst.