My friend John Paul Pagano of Fightin' With Grabes is back posting regularly, and he's got a great post today about what he calls the right-wing version of "idiotarianism." John ventured into the echo-chamber that is Little Green Footballs and dared to disagree with the the prevailing wisdom there that day. And not only did he live to tell about it, but a friendly LGF poster (the only one, apparently) followed John back and left a productive comment on his blog.
Like me, John was a longtime liberal who began drifting right after September 11 and Intefada II, but has lately drifted back the other way in reaction to conservative overreaching. Here he is:
There is something I call "nouveau conservatism", a cheap, distilled ideology that grew out of post-9/11, pop neoconservatism, and which is often on display at LGF. Inevitably, all organic and powerful movements produce a shallow, gestural simulacrum of themselves. The hippies of the late '60s eventually became a smelly cotillion of kids at a Phish show. The culture of nouveau conservatism, like that of the nouveau riche, is obnoxious and noisome, a parody of its progenitor.
I endorse it all- especially the "smelly cotillion" Phish reference.
Posted by Stephen Silver at May 13, 2004 11:34 PMHehe. Thanks, Steve!
Posted by: John-Paul Pagano at May 17, 2004 01:08 AM