See this photo that can only be found one place. President Trump in the foreground with his 'team' on Air Force One.
Posted on 09/27/2020 3:30:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Many of the young people rioting today are not committed Marxist revolutionaries. (There are large, powerful, dark forces behind the riots; the actual rioters are just political fodder.) Many are rioting largely because it's considered by their peers and their influencers to be the cool, popular thing to do. In that, they are the most recent iteration of the popular American "counterculture" that began in the mid-20th century and has traveled hand in hand with left-wing politics (and has, alarmingly, gained the upper hand in the popular culture).
That counterculture has a lineage that goes back to the Beat Poets, a group of young men with literary ambitions who sought to live a more passionate, more ecstatic experience than the standard "American Dream" of family, security, and prosperity. Their writing and experiences became the blueprint of the American counterculture: sex, drugs, rapturous music, mad impulses, and defiance of authority. With them, a new spirit was unleashed; while decadence has always been with us, after the Beats, it was often celebrated as a cultural advancement, a virtue.
By the end of the 1960s, the counterculture the Beats initiated had become mainstream, promoted as such by the media. Many youths adopt the Beats' unbridled lifestyles for at least a brief period of adolescence or young adulthood. Rock may have replaced the Beats' beloved jazz, and rap may have replaced rock as the soundtrack for the times, but the popular acceptance of decadence and defiance has persisted in youth culture to this day. To be "cool," at least in the popular national consciousness, has been to show contempt for traditional mores, to regard those trying to preserve order as less evolved, and to flaunt one's pursuit of sensuality.
Now a new set of young men is showing a new direction, a new "cool."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I don’t think these young men will ever be considered “cool” (righteous isn’t “cool”). But they are patriots, which is far better and more enduring than “cool” could ever hope to be.
The four mentioned are, indeed, both heroes and patriots!
Hopefully, like Nick, they will all have lots of money available from their lawsuits as they continue their education and growth.
American “Contras”....counter revolutionaries.
What people that live “Under the Dome” of the MSM don’t realize is there are millions of young men out in flyover country just like them.
And your obvious assumption is right.
There are NONE on the coasts.
Not millions...even though there are.
It’s nice to live there i’m sure but there’s a reason it’s called “fly over” country.
:)
It’s a great little feel good article. Definitely worth clicking into and reading. Echo’s my thoughts for many years now that the counterculture today is on the conservative side. We’re waiting for the new “Beats” poets to give us voice. I suspect that 4Chan and Q Anon and alternate media may be that voice. Like Publius was that voice in the 1760’s, underground railroad and abolitionists were our voices in the 1860’s.
Pioneering young men like these four mentioned here were the backbone of the revolution folks. Most of the founding fathers at the time of the signing of the declaration of independence were under 40 years old. Monroe and Hamilton were 18 and 24. We’ve deified them up onto a pedestal now, but we shouldnt forget that they were regular people, someone’s children. Ordinary humans that did extraordinary things. They demonstrated the courage to turn against their cultural zeitgeist and our children will do the same.
Saint Kyle the Ventilator, patron saint of lead projectiles, pray for us.
See this photo that can only be found one place. President Trump in the foreground with his 'team' on Air Force One.
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...a reason it’s called “fly over” country.
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Because so many progs believe culture only exists on the coasts?
BTW, most of us consider whee we live to be ‘The Heartland’.
Aside: I’m happy to be over-flown as long as they aren’t dropping actual bombs.
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