And again, obviously I am in an unusually contemplative mood. I had some odd stuff come up this morning I won’t talk about, and have had some very odd nights I also won’t talk about, other than they include things like being forced to do long ruck marches in the middle of the night, and succeeding.
But it seems to me the hippies pursued a thousand dead end roads, if the goal was reforming American culture. True, they have created a tenuous mass of lies buttressed by an obsessive moral certitude, extraordinarily aggressive energy, and a very organized system of signals designed to support the GroupThink they have developed over the past 4-5 decades.
But what they were seeking they did not find. As Paul Johnson asked of the Communists: if you ‘need to break a few eggs to make an omelet’, where is the omelet? One can ask of the hippies: if your goal was to create something new and better, where is it? Craft beer and good coffee don’t qualify. Yoga classes on every corner don’t qualify. Where is the culture in your “counter-culture”? We had a culture. You did your best to destroy it, and are continuing that process. What, now, do you want to replace it with other than a repressive tyranny you will call liberating because lying is simply what you do?
No honest conservative ever need apologize for what they believe. We can and have made mistakes, but it is quite possible, on our side of the aisle, to discuss errors, and figure out ways to do better. That is all anyone can ask. The political Left, on the other hand, has vastly more to answer for, including perhaps most saliently and pressingly its inability to EVER admit fundamental error, or to admit that–like the austistic savants I keep speaking of–it does not understand humanity in the first place at all.