Thursday, April 16, 2009

George WTF? Will

Standing athwart history yelling: "Hey! You kids get your dungarees & video games off my lawn!!"
That could have been the "shorter." This could be too:
Mr. Will has recovered from his recent debacle of lying about climate facts, & decided that we'd better get back to the culture wars. One of the great things about traditionalism is that if you were confronted by someone who appeared to be as white as you were, you could determine his status & rank by what he wore. Yet infantile, video game-playing adults in America insist on wearing "blue jeans" & confusing class identification. And if you're over 18 & still playing video-games you probably shouldn't be able to vote.
(We are not exaggerating. He devoted an entire column to bemoaning practical clothing & video games. And while this grump-fest may have been percolating since he was 15, he had to be inspired by something from the WSJ, which we haven't yet read. We can imagine.)
And so we see the right side of the aisle drifting into total irrelevancy, if not actual dementia. In George Will's mind, the vital issues of the 1960s ("Blue jeans! Bad!") fade in & out w/ the present. Expect a re-wording of the Bircher war cry "Eisenhower is a communist dupe!" from Will next wk. We'll see if he substitutes "Obama" for "Eisenhower."

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