Geee Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 PJMedia: America has always been a country of self-invention. Yet there used to be some correlation between the life that one lived and the life that one professed. It was hard to be a phony in the grimy reality of the coal mine, the steel mill, the south 40 acres, or atop a girder over Manhattan. No longer in our post-modern, post-industrial, metrosexual fantasyland. The nexus of big government, big money, and globalization has created a new creed of squaring the circle of being both liberal and yet elitist, egalitarian-talking but rich-acting, talking like a 99 percenter and living like a 1 percenter. And the rub is not that the two poles are contradictory, but that they are, in fact, necessary for each other: talking about the people means it is OK to live unlike the people. In short, we can all be just what we profess to be. The key in our world of blue-jeaned billionaires is being hip — or rather at least professing to be hip. But what is hip? Mostly it is a state of mind, a religion, a talk, a look, an outward persona that is the key that unlocks you from the ramifications of your ideology. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenoshamarge Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I always enjoy articles from Victor Davis Hanson. But he has outdone himself with this one IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 I always enjoy articles from Victor Davis Hanson. But he has outdone himself with this one IMO. Welcome Marge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 I agree, Kenoshamarge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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