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2006-11-15 Home Front: Politix

Hippies still trying to ruin the country

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Posted by 49 Pan 2006-11-15 11:31|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hippies = Dhimmicrats???

Posted by JohnQC 2006-11-15 13:30|| 2006-11-15 13:30|| Front Page Top

#2 America won't win another war until the 1960s flower children are pushing up petunias.

Exactly. They are the most selfish, useless generation in the history of the world.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-15 13:35|| 2006-11-15 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 This is really an excellent analysis of how and why so many rank and file leftists cling to outmoded and destructive beliefs: their worldview, which they associate with the glory of their youth, would collapse if those beliefs were abandoned. For true believers, the 60s paradigm cannot be altered to fit circumstances, it is dogma, untouchable. Instead, circumstances are altered to fit the paradigm. The pop-culture left is acting out a script and their motives are profoundly personal. It is unfortunate that their actions impact the real world, where terrorists and other savage enemies take heart from their influence and real people die because of moth-eaten fantasies.

For more on the relationship between leftist politics and the 60s counterculture, see Thomas M. Frank's landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. This is a damning indictment of the media-industrial complex. Frank's status as a major liberal only enhances the credibility of this particular message. That message, supported by some remarkable documentation, is that the 60s Counteculture was largely an invention of the advertising industry, not an authentic social movement. He also documents the crucial role of radical political memes in the 60s Counterculture, and maintains that the Counterculture remains the chief influence on the internal culture of the mass media to this day.
In short, the left as we know it today is little more than an advertising gimmick run amok.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-11-15 15:02|| 2006-11-15 15:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Great article and comments.

The confluence of forces that brought about a very large cohort of people with this poisonous meme set will hopefully not be duplicated again. The class of '68 is a disease, a particularly virulent episode of the herpetic infection of leftism on the "body" of the West initiated with the French revolution.

The conditions - economic, technological, and demographic - that made this curse possible were unique in human history. Although there will likely always be some small percentage of folks that think and act like this, the impending death of this unusually large group of cognitively challenged robots over the next 25 or so years should reduce those numbers to a manageable level.

Funny part is, most of them think they're going to live forever. "Crown of creation"? I think not.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-11-15 17:49|| 2006-11-15 17:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Sen Carl Levin (D-MI) comment before the 3 automakers met with President Bush last week was: We're going to speak truth to power. The old fool Levin is trapped in the 60's with the rest of the dummies.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-11-15 18:14|| 2006-11-15 18:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Exactly. They are the most selfish, useless generation in the history of the world.

Really? The whole generation? You know, I grew up in that era, and I ain't no damn hippie flower child! In fact, most people weren't.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-15 18:26|| 2006-11-15 18:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I am a "class of 65" guy. High school. Joined the USMC in 66' and came back to a different world in 1970. I have often felt that only after the last of this generation dies will things have a better chance of getting on track. Not everybody was a Hippie. But they won the leadership in academia and professions and the media. Now they have the House and Senate. We will all be better off when the "Bull Conner" and "Black Panther" types have all died off in terms of race-relations. I wonder if the country has to wait till the Communist/Socialists and Cold Warriors like me are dead and gone before we can start anew. I hope not.

Posted by Sgt. D.T. 2006-11-15 18:51|| 2006-11-15 18:51|| Front Page Top

#8 OH HOW LEFT HAS CHANGED? > LE REPUBLIQUE NEWS > NEPALESE MAOISTS proclaim VICTORY IN REVOLUTION > while proclaiming to resist Amer + Euro/West + Capitalist Imperialism, ALSO PROCLAIM MUCH IDEO DISAGREEMENT WID INTERNATIONAL LEFTISTS OVER UTILITY + INFLUENCE OF CAPITALISM-CONSUMERISM IN MARXIST SOCIALIST SOCIETIES-GOVTS. *IOW, CLINTONS > FASCISM = SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH, CCCCCCCCCC
CCCCCCCCCCCCCC the NEW COMMUNISM > you know, the Billarian and US DemoLeft rant against hated despicable FASCISM/ULTRA + FAR RIGHT!? NEPALESE MAOISTS = COMMIES WANT US-WESTERN CAPITALISM + CONSUMERISM, in addition to SOCIALISM/GUBMINT-ISM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-15 23:55|| 2006-11-15 23:55|| Front Page Top

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