The reign of the culturopaths

Culturopathy is that distinctly anti-intellectual strand of right-wing political expression which is currently dominating most forms of popular media. The truth is, thinking is hard, and critical thinking, beyond the stale idiocy of reactionism, is harder still.
The culturopath is one who elevates a cultural standard while denying or opposing its foundational principles- namely, rationalism and free inquiry. They hold up always a golden ideal, rooted in the past, usually mythic, of a time when all was right, and decry how far we have fallen from that state. It should be no surprise to find that most culturopaths are decidedly of a literal religious bent in their nature, readily identifying with the genesis narrative of a great fall of humankind.
The culturopath thinks with their gut, using emotion as the arbiter of truthfulness. Everything is reduced to opinion whilst being cloaked in a pretext of fact. Naturally, the defense of such vaporous ‘facts’ comes not in the form of well reasoned argumentation, but through a shouting competition- he who yells the loudest is the most correct.
That these bigoted, anti-intellectual voices have come to dominate much of the cultural discourse reveals a great deal about the sorry state we are in.
This is culturopathy- the state when a culture becomes diseased and begins to rot. The real creators of cultural content are under a growing assault by this reactionary contingent, who themselves contribute nothing of substance- only more and more pathological rantings and lashing out.