Lileks on the "Hippie Revival"

HazZzMat hasn't heard much from columnist-blogger James Lileks lately. At least not since he was unceremoniously dumped from the dead-tree version of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune as part of a "cost-cutting" measure. (Can't help thinking his humorous conservatism didn't help his career either at that Marxist house organ.)

Well, Jim's blog still lives, and we have also found him on the "Strib's" website where he recently opined on what is allegedly the country's latest fashion statement:

According to this fashion piece, written in the NYTimes and reprinted in today’s Source, we are Feelin’ Groovy. Or will be soon. Why? Because six young women who live in lower Manhattan are dressing like “hippies,” and they know someone who knows someone at the New York Times. Since it happens to be the 40th anniversary of the most important summer in the history of humankind, the Times writes a piece about Hippie Chic, and suddenly the rest of the nation is supposed to believe that the fashion sensibility of the Summer of Love will soon sweep the malls. Because we haven’t had a sixties revival of some kind in, oh, seventeen minutes.Will this stuff ever die? If it can be killed, how can the ordinary joe help? Must we pass some sort of laws, like the Mandatory Fedora Act or the Comprehensive Hate-Ashbury Omnibus Bill? I realize that fashion always takes cues from the past, updating and recycling, but it’s always the sixties or early seventies.

Lileks correctly zeroes in on the infantilism of the literary and journalistic left. For these aging boomers and their younger acolytes, the alleged Summer of Love and its accompanying ruinous anti-war rallies and defeatism marks a Gold Standard that they are trying to replicate for one final time this decade. For them, the '60s and early '70s marked the apogee of their boring lives, freezing them forever in a fantasy world where time has stopped for good.

Unfortunately, history, and even fashion, move on. While the MSM prattles away with such trivia, trapped in a narcissistic time warp from which there is no escape and indulging in adolescent fantasies of nubile, available young women stoned out of their gourds, serious-minded Americans, including the President and the military, are trying to put the Islamofascists out of business before these juvenile delinquents prevail and bring the Summer of Love permanently to an end.

It is one of the ironies of history that the current Administration—along with our brave military men and women deployed in the Middle East—is attempting to beat back a huge throng of crazed and dangerous criminals in order to make America safe for idiots such as those Lileks so accurately describes. But don't try to explain this to the moonbats, for whom Bush, not bin Laden nor the mad mullahs, remains the Great Satan. They'll rip off your head in order to prove how nonviolent they are.