We're not circlejerking if we are discussing and occasionally disagreeing lol

Circlejerk is agreement with no substance

I just didn't want to get caught up in just complaining like those I get upset with

The best way to stay optimistic is to keep looking for how to improve it rather than pointing the problems

Culture can certainly be influenced by government interference. It seems our government has been largely indifferent when it comes to cultural matters, only endorsing new changes (i.e. gay marriage) when they become wildly popular.

In Hungary, the govt. initiated a massive fertility program that increase fertility rates.

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In China, for the worse, the government destroyed old Chinese ideas such as Confucianism.

So, it's highly plausible that culture is influenced by government, among other things.

Im not saying it cant be im saying it shouldnt be

Even when corporations decide to push gender theory?

Correct.

Ideally that corporation would go woke go broke

If not, its one thing to be influenced by Mao telling you to submit or die, its another to be influenced by some mandatory seminars and subliminal ads.

Gucci, for example, hasn't seen a major decline in profits, yet they recently launched an ad campaign whose central idea was "gender-fluidity".

If people gave it a second thought they wouldnt be influenced

Either that or they want to be influenced for another reason

The average person isn't culturally conservative, so it's not like they care if Google promotes globo-homo.

You cant outlegislate ignorance. If you can combat it at all, its through the community

The objective wouldn't be to out-legislate apathy. It would be to prevent companies from pushing destructive cultural changes.

Too idealistic for today's government, obviously, but a conservative culture is superior to a liberal one.

sperm banks are degenerate and need to be banned, change my mind

If the PEOPLE cant be trusted with preventing companies from destroying culture, what makes you think outsourcing that responsibility to the government is any safer? If people are apathetic the govt will use that power to corrupt culture as well

And how so?

By pushing open borders?

oh shit yall are actually having a intellectual debate nvm

Sperm Banks should be considered child abuse actually

Unless you are married

A company has economic reasons for pushing degenerate liberal things, because consumerism and open-borders generate huge profits.

Putting a kid in a scenario without a father is so beyond fucked

Imagine being that selfish

I do agree, to an extent, that a government could be culturally destructive, like in China.

A govt need only keep corporate interests domestic, not control the attitudes that make corporations capable of pursuing certain things

you know what caused companies to become so evil

at least partially

Making them legally have to maximize profits

if they aren't fully owned by one person