In days of old, when students studied Greek Mythology instead of feminist mythology, they learned about the greatest hero of them all, Heracles, more popularly (using the word loosely today) known by his Roman name, Hercules. Hercules was the original Superman, a half-god white male who fought monsters, tyrants, and Amazons — after bedding their queen — while rescuing damsels in distress. He is, in short, an idol to young men, a champion to young women, and everything the cultural Left detests, much like Elon Musk.

I believe Elon Musk will discover what Hercules did when battling the Hydra. That the usual line of attack won’t work.

Musk is the modern-day Hercules. Not as physically strong but just as powerful, he saved America, saved the world, and may someday save the planet. By purchasing Twitter two years ago this month, Musk broke the liberal stranglehold on free speech that was throttling the country. Once unleashed, the truth spread like wildfire, burning the rotted timbers of progressivism — boys can be girls, killing babies is a reproductive right, only black lives matter, Joe Biden is Lieutenant Columbo — in record time. Much as Hercules replaced the corrupt King Augeas with the populist Phyleus, Musk helped replace the doddering President Biden with Donald Trump.

But like Hercules first did, Musk is improperly battling a monster he can’t defeat without a change in tactic — actually the same monster in a new incarnation. The Hydra was a horrible multi-headed creature whose breath poisoned all it touched. Tasked with destroying the beast, Hercules began by lopping off a head, only to see two more grow in its place, again and again. He finally had his nephew, Iolaus, burn each wound, preventing the heads from growing back.

Hollywood is the modern Hydra. For most of this century, its antihuman emanations have dissolved art, beauty, morality and by extension the culture. The fact that it has toxified its own environment and potential nourishment has not stopped it. Netflix is just one of its many heads, with several children’s shows seeking to pervert kids into the trans and queer agenda:

Dead End: Paranormal Park — trans teen Barney explores his identity at a haunted theme park.

The Baby-Sitters Club — teen girlbosses lambast a male doctor for misgendering a trans patient.

Cocomelon — toddlers subjected to a tutu-clad boy dancing ballet with his two dads.

This all proved too much for Elon Musk, who called the Netflix series “insanity” and “LGBTQ propaganda.” Last week he struck out more directly at the aberration, posting on X, “Cancel Netflix for the health of your kids.” Musk’s cancellation campaign exploded, with up to 300,000 customers so far severing their subscriptions. Netflix lost billions in value, its stock dropping five percent. Yet as impressive as the boycott may appear, it’s an exercise in futility.

Two new heads will emerge soon. One, a defiant Netflix, which hates traditional families, and feels it can survive their tantrum and continue to indoctrinate their children. Another head already has sprung up. Look no further than what Amazon just tried to do to the beloved franchise that has sadly come into its possession built around one character — Bond, James Bond.

Last week, Amazon unveiled its poster art for all 25 Bond films now in its control, with two elements missing. One was obvious and unsurprising — no Bond Girls. Sexy women leaning on Bond as they had until this century are a submission to the Male Gaze and offensive to the feminist mind. Forget that the Male Gaze — and female desire — essentially made Bond into the durable draw he is still. The Message trumps the Medium.

Yet something else was conspicuously absent from every new 007 poster, because it had been digitally erased from the original photos — Bond’s handgun. Yes, some woke losers at Amazon actually decided that Bond’s signature tool (“It’s a Smith and Wesson. And you’ve had your six.”) was too triggering, and took appropriate action to remove it. Of course, the fans revolted and Amazon backtracked, but it’ll try again with a new head. And it bodes ill for Amazon’s first Bond movie, which will probably be a bigger piece of shite than the last Daniel Craig debacle, No Time to Die.

I believe Elon Musk will discover what Hercules did when battling the Hydra. That the usual line of attack won’t work. That like the Greek hero, he is one of the few men with the power to change his assault to something far more effective. To something I, and wiser heads than I, have been calling for a decade.

You see, a boycott is no good without an alternative for consumers. If not Netflix — what? If not Amazon — what? If not Disney — what? Well, X was Musk’s answer to liberal media hegemony, and it paid off in influence and profit despite the shrieking from the Left. He can do the same to the Hollywood Hydra. Musk can finance the treasury of traditional entertainment developed by fine storytellers like Andrew Klavan, David Morrell, Michael Walsh, and others. Because great fiction writers can reflect the culture in a way the leftwing hacks cannot.

For instance, last month I mentioned a script I wrote (currently with a great producer) about a 1950 Soviet plot to assassinate John Wayne, because of his success flushing out Hollywood communists. Last week, useful idiot Jane Fonda relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a “free speech” advocacy group formed in 1947. That the commies did a lot of cultural damage back then, and censoring of conservatives this decade, is a lesson lost on Fonda and her ilk. Hopefully, Elon Musk has learned that lesson, and that of Hercules versus the Hydra.

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