A very interesting, and at least partially true (like me, for instance) theory on the relationship between the original, pre-Marxist infiltration hippie beliefs and the current Tea Party beliefs -
"the Tea Party and the hippie movement share four fundamental core values:
•A craving for independence;
•A celebration of individualism;
•Joy in the freedom offered by self-sufficiency;
•And an acceptance of the natural order of things."
OK, so far, but this, to me, is the clincher -
"Actually, considering that the Tea Party demographic skews toward people in their 50s and 60s, it may very well be that many Tea Partiers did wear long hair and practice free love 40 years ago when they were young. In other words, a certain percentage of Tea Partiers aren’t simply like the original hippies — they were the original hippies . . ."
Current 'hippies' are pale and foolish copies who never got past the dependancy stage.
We are the real deal.
Anyway, give this a read, it is truly worth your time.
I have not watched the embedded video yet, but will tomorrow, after I lay my tired old bones down for a while.
Good night, all.
Old Iron posted about this over at our blog last week and it's been making the rounds around blog-o-sphere. Very interesting read for sure!
ReplyDeleteThis is the link, I trust?
ReplyDeleteAll these two dimensional plots of the political spectrum suffer because in reality you need eleven dimensions to properly classify them.
Can't see in eleven dimensions? You must not have taken enough acid. :D
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I'm in between the Boomers and the Gen X'ers, and so I got a dose of the trippy idealism of the Boomer hippies, and more than a few lines of the reflexive cynicism of Gen X hipsters.
Actually, I'm working hard to outgrow both impulses.
There is nothing so unattractive in a man of a certain age than a naive and overbearing adolescent moral vanity. I remember carrying on in high school in some detail about what was right and wrong and the way things ought to be. On reflection, it was chiefly a mechanism to rationalize my need to feel better than the average person, and demonstrate fealty to like minded insufferable precocious teens. Yglesias and Klein were probably cute when they were kids. It's getting old even for them. And Krugman? Friedman? Ugh...
At the same time, it's never too late to embrace child-like wonder and earnest belief in place of fashionable skepticism and affectations of worldliness. Can you imagine Stewart or Colbert brave enough to be honest and sincere in even one expression? Me neither...
Oh, Crappy-O-Rama. I said I was tired.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lewy.
Sigh.