tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post1281072861816731567..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Irreverence toward authority in music videosagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-54468403212868085472014-02-18T00:30:56.987-05:002014-02-18T00:30:56.987-05:00People are less irreverent towards cops because co...People are less irreverent towards cops because cops are so much more brittle than they used to be. They'll stomp on any show of disrespect as they see it. Saying "I smell bacon" within earshot of a cop will get you arrested if not Tasered. It wasn't like that in the 80's.Boisfeurasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-12182584646924007542014-02-17T14:16:56.909-05:002014-02-17T14:16:56.909-05:00The Left isn't in power. NAFTA, deregulation o...The Left isn't in power. NAFTA, deregulation of telecommunications, concentration of power in the Executive branch, soaring incarceration rates for petty crimes (esp. pot possession), etc. Nothing about the past 20 years politically and economically has been Leftist. It's been Neoliberal.<br /><br />As for the "cultural Leftist" stuff, that's not something that young people are naturally drawn to. If anything, average kids groan when they have to pretend that a nobody culture is a trophy-winner too, that faggots are normal and you shouldn't use "that's gay" as a put-down, that any boy who touches any girl in kindergarten is just a hop skip and a jump away from date rape, etc.<br /><br />If anything, kids these days have more to rebel against than in the '70s or '80s. Authoritarianism is greater, corporate dominance more pervasive, pop culture has blandness enforced, and dating-and-mating norms have not been this prudish since the Victorians.<br /><br />Also remember who the Left was rebelling against -- Johnson and the Democrats (1968 Chicago National Convention). They saw the conservatives / Republicans as an obvious enemy and not worth taking on. It was the reformist liberals who the Left feared would deflate the potential revolution.<br /><br />And it's not as though we didn't have 8 years of a (pseudo-)conservative Republican as President, the War on Terror, surging patriotism, and other things that a young rebel might have felt like standing against.<br /><br />Young people these days just don't have that wariness toward authority. Helicopter parenting has stunted or robbed them of their sense of autonomy, so they cling to authorities and pray that it'll get them through life safely, as it did in childhood.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-61962759600666759622014-02-17T12:23:28.959-05:002014-02-17T12:23:28.959-05:00The 1960-1990 period wasn't necessarily libera...The 1960-1990 period wasn't necessarily liberal. Ever hear of Reagan?<br /><br />I agree with defiance against the police. In fact, I can remember doing that when my friends and I got pulled over for roaming around on mischief night (1994?) - I gave the finger to the cops, though I would never do that at my age now. But, I'd never make a remark about donuts, as I've struggled with my weight when I was younger and feel sympathy for those who do. That's a lowblow.Curtisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-14489645944177002352014-02-17T09:33:17.129-05:002014-02-17T09:33:17.129-05:00you forget that youth culture of rebellion from th...you forget that youth culture of rebellion from the 50s-80s was all about the left's long march through the institutions. it was about rebelling again the old NONleft in power. now that thyve solidified their hold on the culture, no more rebellion permitted. it was never rebellion for rebellions sake, it was a power play<br /><br />bonus lesbian phrenology: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm929020672/nm0680983?ref_=nm_ov_ph ellen page trifecta, small close set eyes, thin upper lip, nascent puppet chindanahttp://minarchyblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com