Some jottings about the news- From LRC:
- Entrepreneurs are moral heroes.
- A friend recently asked me whether I thought Hillary Clinton had a chance of being elected president. I responded that she had already been selected for the job. The political Establishment wants her in the White House for two terms for the same reason it selected Barack Obama back in 2008. I'm not sure she'll get in but good points. Even money they'll switch to a mainstream liberal Republican.
- From Face to Face: The generational structure of status contests: competing over careers vs. lifestyles.
- From Theden: Redneck authenticity and its ironic enemies.
- In the Ukraine, some Ukrainian Catholics question Ukrainianism and liberal Europeanism. Sounds good. The trouble is I think the group the New York Times is reporting on is formally schismatic: The breakaway church — which calls itself the Ukrainian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church. It's not the SSPX-sponsored group. Of course the Times depicts them as crazy and mean (maybe they are). Interesting now that no-longer-Communist Russia is sort of traditional, the Times presents them as evil.
Monday, June 23, 2014
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Redneck authenticity?!? Where's Owen White when I need him?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I may be a suburban kid, but only barely: our subdivision was surrounded by farmland, and when I went into private schools there were plenty of actual farm kids. And by that time the Hick Chic thing was in gear. Rural authenticity is a lost cause.
Rural authenticity is a lost cause.
DeleteI'm not sure what point you're making.
From the standpoint of the Left, rednecks, i.e. the white working class, are a lost cause. They are too white, too armed, too religious and too provincial. So they must be replaced.
This played out in urban settings as well, with the Hard Hat Riots. Shortly thereafter, the Left decided to wreck the urban Irish and Italian whites' schools.
Fifty years ago nobody identified the northern or western white working classes as being synonymous with rednecks; the current state of affairs is a construct of pop culture and political pushing. It says something about this that none of the Dukes was played by a southerner (though at least Jon Schneider spent a few years in Georgia as a late teen), and that the NY riot was an organized action of the union not entirely at White House instigation but certainly to its pleasure.
DeleteIn any case, I can hardly take you as a spokesman for for the American left, not when I can talk to the real thing.