The United States is undergoing a cultural revolution. Artificial Intelligence is giving Middle America the tools to circumvent the entertainment monopoly of the bicoastal elites. You can find content on YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and Facebook every bit as fun and/or entrancing as anything you can see on Netflix, Apple, or network TV. Just as new media has destroyed the monopoly authority of legacy media, the legacy arbiters and gatekeepers of popular culture are losing their power to dictate what America watches and listens to. A new generation of creative artists is arising.

Watch the AI-generated video above. It’s hilarious (at least if you’re a Lord of the Rings fan). Nothing like this ever came out of Hollywood. (Neural Derp is the brainchild of Taylor Mittelstadt of Gulf Breeze, Fla.) We’ll be seeing a lot more like this. The titans of Tinseltown should be quaking in their Guccis.

As Andrew Breitbart famously said, politics is downstream from culture. The culture is changing. Middle America is empowered. Give it a few years, and the politics will reflect it.

OK, I just had to include another example:

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