{"id":20481,"date":"2022-09-25T00:47:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2022-09-25T00:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:51:15","slug":"to-paraphrase-huey-lewis-and-the-news-its-hip-to-be-unwoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/25\/to-paraphrase-huey-lewis-and-the-news-its-hip-to-be-unwoke\/","title":{"rendered":"To Paraphrase Huey Lewis and the News, \u201cIt\u2019s Hip to be Unwoke.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the New York Times there is a troubling trend among some avant-garde kids to assume the trappings of traditional institutions, like the Catholic crucifix, and defy the virtue signaling mantra of their generation\u2019s elite guardians.\u00a0 So, the Times is looking for a sleuth to ferret out the details of this heresy and hopefully expose the malefactors so that they can be properly punished and then allowed to recant and declare their love for Big Brother.<\/p>\n

This New York Times project is described in an article in the City Journal<\/a> that goes on to try and explain these young rebels as the first fruits of a rebellion of the young against the dominant culture which in this case is the current all encompassing orthodoxy of woke-ism.\u00a0 In other words, these young people are organizing a counter-culture against what used to be described as the Left\u2019s counter-culture against western civilization.<\/p>\n

The author states: \u201cFew things are more natural for young people than to push back against the strictures and norms of their day, even if only to stand out a little from the crowd and assert their independence. A counterculture forms as a reaction against an official or dominant culture\u2014and today, it is the woke neoliberal Left that occupies this position in America\u2019s cultural, educational, technological, corporate, and bureaucratic power centers. In this culture, celebration of ritualized, old forms of transgression is not only permitted, but practically mandatory. Dissent against state-sponsored transgression, however, is now transgressive. All of what was once revolutionary is now a new orthodoxy, with conformity enforced by censorship, scientistic obscurantism, and eager witch-hunters (early-middle-aged, zealously dour, tight-lipped frown, NPR tote bag, rainbow \u201cCoexist\u201d bumper sticker, pronouns in email signature\u2014we all know the uniform).\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently, these young rebels can be found in trendy areas of lower Manhattan and their cachet as members of the avant-garde worries the gatekeepers of public morality at the Times and the author equates this worry with genuine peril that the youth among the elites could be corrupted and driven over to the dark side where one day they would produce a new consensus to shift the balance of power away from the monolithic progressive world view.\u00a0 And a new regime could populate the Deep State with acolytes of the Dissident Right.<\/p>\n

Well, I don\u2019t know about that.\u00a0 I know that Curtis Yarvin is interested in the lower Manhattan scene being discussed and he is of the opinion that the only way to neutralize the Deep State is to peacefully displace it with a new elite.\u00a0 But in both of these examples I wonder at the circumstances and the time line that would bring about such a transformation.\u00a0 Some kids in Manhattan adopting Christian symbology isn\u2019t a bad thing but what is the larger significance?\u00a0 Do these young people hope to change the values that guide modern life?\u00a0 Are they looking to traditional values to give meaning to their existence?\u00a0 And how many people are we talking about?\u00a0 A handful, a few thousand or a growing trend?<\/p>\n

And what will be the reaction of the gatekeepers?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they\u2019re already busy looking to siphon off any discontented teens with a Tik-Tok influencer who sports a trans-friendly pseudo-Catholic rosary that involves anti-Pope Francis\u2019 official rainbow seal of approval.<\/p>\n

I guess, on balance, any fear on the part of the official organs of the state like the Times is a good and promising symptom.\u00a0 Therefore, I won\u2019t rain on their parade.\u00a0 But I think I\u2019ll wait to celebrate until I see some larger more widespread evidence that the Zoomers have begun to rebel.\u00a0 Possibly the \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon\u201d cheers (or their actual words) at football games could be interpreted as the first real sign of popular unrest of the young against the Left.\u00a0 But I\u2019ve assumed that was more of a reaction to the COVID lockdowns by the Biden administration and not a general anti-woke reaction.\u00a0 We\u2019ll need to see clearer signs such as voting trends or support for traditional institutions like religion and marriage.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ll end by saying that anything that hints at the young abandoning the woke cult is encouraging.\u00a0 Even if it\u2019s a minority movement, it\u2019s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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