On Stinkin' Hippies

Steven Crowder over at FoxNews dissects the modern hippie, (figuratively only, I'm sorry to say):

Hipsters. We all know one. They’re those fun, little, arrogant people who let the ideal of “anti-consumerism,” combined with a hatred for all things normal, dictate their every action. Whether it’s spending more time and money at thrift shops for threads (anti-consumerist threads, mind you), or combing the record store for the most unknown/least coherent band they can find, there’s one thing that hipsters constantly want you to know: that they are better than you. That, and also, those frames that you’re wearing are so mainstream.

Of course, it goes without saying that a leftist world view is a staple in the hipster’s theological wardrobe. For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they’ve all become the same.

All kids want to feel like they’re a part of something. Modern, crooked leftists are willing to provide them with that, all the while cloaking it in a cleverly marketed veil of “anti-consumerism.”

It seems to me that at one point in our country’s history, young people adopted fashion styles that would come back to haunt them decades later.

Today, young people are increasingly adopting fashionable philosophies that could hurt the world for decades to come.

I can't decide if modern hippies are more or less dangerous than their notorious 60s ancestors. On one hand they have access to far more information and near-instantaneous communication. On the other, they're much less intellectual (even less intelligent) than the 60s variety, and far poorer in real education -- and I'm not talking about sheepskins. In a way, their forebears' successful corruption of many of our institutions of higher learning has sabotaged their own long-term goals by propagandizing everything, insisting that free thought outside of radical liberalism is unacceptable.

Such is the nature of all leftist societies. The only real variable is the length of the path they follow from freedom to oppression. The tools (so to speak) are now in place; they merely await the manipulations of the social engineering craftsman -- which fortunately for us all, Barry Soetoro most certainly is not.

It occurs to me that, in a way, we've actually dodged a bullet by having this political infant squat in the White House. It could have been far, far worse if someone both leftist and politically astute had happened along in 2008. In the long view, he may actually be good for the country -- though in a very different manner than what the quisling journalists and hipsters envisioned when they helped elect him.