Strength Through Joy Amerika

[Meursault]

Why not? Liberals always complain about the mechanistic, workaday routine of increased productivity; conservatives ceaselessly whine about a lost communalism. A Strength Through Joy-style programme solves both issues handily.

[Meursault]

Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Fruede) was a National Socialist organization that ran leisure activities for the German working and middle classes which would normally be out of their price range, as part of the bargain for massively increased rearmament productivity. These included pleasurae cruises, factory floor concerts, and excursions to the theater.

Why not something similar here?

[Meursault]

So you mandate that one concert in three will be a Beethoven concert, right next to the Nine Inch Nails shows; or that every other film will be an American Movie Classic.

You appeal to the cultural conservatives to do an end-run around the dipsh**t social conservatives.

[Meursault]

Hmm.

The American Leisure League (ALL)?

[Meursault]

I myself would structure it as a voluntary voucher programme. If necessary to pass, mandate that every so many uses of it go towards prespecified "high cultural pursuits", e.g. every other film attended be in the Library of Congress.

This needn't be too saccharine or propagandistic -- The Exorcist is in the Library of Congress.