Here, I have to call BS. I’ve known a bunch of hippies in my time, and most of the genuine hippies are anti-authority and pretty much want to be left alone to do “their thing.”
The MSM wouldn’t admit a hippy to their ranks if they were paid to do so. The MSM is controlled by the earnest, soft-shoe liberal elite who went to school, got good grades, sat up straight and behaved in class, shined their shoes and followed all the rules. They’re sycophants, brown-nosers and boot-licking toadies who have not had an independent thought in their heads since they quit filling their diapers.
What we have now is a tyranny of the over-educated, under-informed brown-noser, many of whom have graduated with very august sounding degrees from Ivy League schools, The branding and pretension of these schools has given their graduates a preening sense of intellectual entitlement that “they’re right because they’re smart, and they’re smart because they went to Harvard/Yale/Princeton/etc and those schools only admit ‘the best’ so you graduates are ‘the best and brightest’ “ and so on.
Read the Jan, 2010 Commentary story about Sarah Palin. It released an avalanche of despite and open hatred ..... check links and read David Frum's comment at his own blog on Commentary's piece, and be sure to read all the comments on both. Then wander over to Gawker.com and see what "Pareena" had to say about Frum et al., and the responses to same at both Gawker and Jewschool.com -- you'll see the bones of the whole thing laid bare.
Personally, I had no idea the contempt for Middle America that lives on the Atlantic Slope. But I got an education pretty damn fast, even including some of the newer "neocon" commentators who've made names for themselves in the last five years.