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| Rebels With A Cause | | Date Created: Mar 06, 2005, 02:10 PM |
I think we have to deal with Doug Giles and his thesis here. If for no other reason than it at least partially agrees with what I've been saying that I'm seeing develop. Times have changed. Today's rebels on campus are rebelling against the establishment and political dogma that they're being force fed, but today that is the liberal establishment that came from the 60's when they, in turn, were rebelling against what they perceived as the establishment then.
Many of today's liberals can't see this because of their own political bias and because they either think today's universities aren't heavily leftist or because they think leftists dominated the universities back in the 60's and nothing's changed.
Well, sad to say; leftists, elitists, intellectual thumb suckers, lazy thinkers, and those who couldn't make it in the real world have always found a haven in academic tenured positions, but they didn't dominate both the non-science departments and the administration as they do now. (Not to mention journalism school, law school, the media etc.) Plus we have about 35 years to show that what the leftists, radicals, and rebels of that era wanted and actually did, haven't worked and in many ways are worse than what they rebelled against. Well, that is if you're paying attention.
I don't agree with Giles completely. I'll address his list of points of rebellion separately, but I agree with his basic premiss about rebellion today. If this really gets going, it will be interesting to see how many of the lefties of my era can make the connection and join the new revolution. Or is it as The Who says:
The party on the left is now the party on the right
And their beards have all grown longer overnight
(Won't Get Fooled Again -- The Who)
Here's some excerpts:
Rebels with a Cause
Doug Giles
March 5, 2005
Yeah, I’ve got to confess, rebels and rebellion were my mainstay growing up...
These rebels fought against what “the establishment” and what “the man” had become. As Sam Smith states, when the powers-that-be become “a stolid, unyielding, unthinking, unimaginative wall of bland certainty . . .” which tables “doomed fantasies to the mindless applause of its constituency . . .” and “restricts freedom to think, speak, and act . . .” then it won’t be long before those who are gifted to rage against the stagnant machine will manifest.
When culture begins to spawn mindless conformity and cattle-like compliance to authority structures . . . when, via the media, we are sold thoughts we do not wish to buy, and when students are force fed agendas and propaganda in the classroom, then revolt becomes most necessary.
The rebel’s job is to fight against mindlessly accepted norms and exactly what those norms are fluctuate from decade to decade—just like Oprah’s dress size. But one thing is for certain, the dissenter will always rise up against the tyrannical tide of public opinion.
Historically, positive rebellion usually came from the hopeful young person who understood prophetically what needed to be said and done and had the energy to fight against what currently is...
The big question is: What would a young rebel look like today? What would the new millennium’s James Dean war against and stand for? Well, if you’re talking about the young person who is unfortunately stuck in the public school system or in one of the multitudinous left leaning college classrooms, he would be bristling against the uncut atheism, secular liberalism and moral relativism that these places of propaganda ram rod down the throats of the masses 24/7...
Yes, today’s rebel, today’s bad boy, would actually be a good, principled guy in the midst of culture that has the morals of a drunken alley cat. Yeah, everything that was rebellious, hip, cool and avant garde in the sixties has pretty much politically and morally left us in shambles, has failed miserably and is very common place and passé today...
Young person: if this is what you believe and live, and if you dare to speak and defend this in the classroom and if you have the nerve to bring this up while at a party, then you, my friend, are A REBEL. This is what today’s young high school- and college-Rosa-Park-radicals will look like...
My ClashPoint is this: most young people today are the offspring of failed rebels of the 60’s. Young people having had their forehead split open by the blunt end of the parental pool cue of liberal life choices have seen first hand the folly of appalling politics, ghastly economics, shocking sociology and dreadful life style choices. The only recourse the children of failed liberalism, secularism and atheism have is to revolt into conservativism and theism...
Seeing how lunatic anti-American liberalism has high jacked the media and the especially the majority of our classrooms, the time has come for the rebels to emerge.
This new, conservative, young righteous rebel who is unowned, unmanipulated, unbowed, undomesticated, unapologetic and unashamed will challenge those who wish to keep people as obedient robots of the radical Left. They will be the ones who free people from liberal propagandists manipulating them into thoughts they don’t think, and ideologists converting them to ideas they don’t believe. And who knows . . . they just might be the ones who start a massive revolution that saves this great nation.
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