Where the Hell Is the Outrage?

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149. Its one aspect of consumerism, post-1960s

Some other people live for remodeling or buying bigger houses, etc. Some people rely on antidepressants to deal with their anguish and dismay.

I do agree about the draft: Once Vietnam was in the rearview mirror, boomers voted Reagan into office and resumed the White Flight into the suburbs. Educators from this generation also established postmodern habits of thought as the new Liberalism, leaving the Left without the courage of its convictions or any systems of thought... only technocrats. A week didn't go by where I didn't see a Liberal being shamed (often by conservatives, who picked up on it quickly) on TV over the traces of belief in his/her positions (i.e. Liberals trying to push their pet projects and ideology on everyone else, etc). The more Liberals adopted the "everyone has a valid point of view" attitudes, the more they were neutralized by having every statement or stance turned around and thrown back in their faces (often by conservatives). The rest of the time, they were being made to feel guilty for engaging in propaganda and manipulating language.

Fast-forward to 2006, and George Lakoff is acting like he discovered the importance of framing issues and coining terminology... things the old Left was famous for. (These were abandoned by the neoliberals partly because the mass media coalesced into barrier against Left propaganda.)