Paleoconservatism

[Carl Remick]

> And what did the counter-culture bequeath to us: 
>  an oedipal distrust of fathers, 
>  a culture that celebrates victimhood,
>  politicians who are not afraid to cry, 
>  a disdain for theory, 
>  a worship of sensation and intuition, 
>  humanitarian intervention,
>  the vicious prejudice against the East inherited from 
> 'Western Marxism', 
>  a hatred of mass consumption and the consuming masses, 
>  a paganistic hostility to scientific enquiry.

Bummer -- this isn't the way I remember the sixties at all.  To me, the
counterculture was a movement characterized by pacifism, egalitarianism,
good humor and a humble sense of wonder about the world .  I see very
few traces of these traits in Western society today.

Carl