The War Room

EZRA, THE FACE OF THE NEW COUNTER CULTURE

In my opinion, I think what probably bothers aging, far left-liberal boomers like Kinsella most is this...they are no longer that which they defined themselves as...anti-establishment rebels.

NOFX, sheesh, Avril Lavigne and Rihanna have more bite. These guys have been around since I was a child.

What we are seeing now in the left, is the final vitriol of the generation of baby-boomers who have seized power and now control all of the establishments they once rebelled against. Arrogantly thinking they were the solution to history, now they lash out in anti-intellectual, vitriol and rage against that which they do not understand.

For all of their rhetoric of how progressive and forward thinking they were, most of their ideas have been abject failures.

Far from giving us a utopia of free love, peace and equality...

...the counter culture baby boomers gave us the pain of broken families, HIV/AIDS, the horrors of ignoring the genocide of Marxism, the censorship of political correctness, a public educational system rife with violence and lots of really bad hair and art.

I have never met the man, but what possibly bothers Kinsella the most in the Ezra Levant case, on some subconcious generational level, are not the politics of free speech...not whether peoples feellings are hurt or not...not the issues of freedom of religion or the press, but the fact that Ezra Levant is the new young rebel bucking the system. Even alt-rocker Matthew Good had to acknoweldge that in an offhanded way.

Ezra Levant is the new face of the counter-culture in Canada. And the face is not that of a 60's obsessed, bratty rich white student, covered in piercings and tatoos wearing tattered, acid washed clothes with a picture of Che and an upside down cross on his shirt.

No, the counter-culture face is now that of a clean cut, bespectaled, suit wearing, young Jewish man standing up defiantly for what he knows is right.

Even if Barack Obama wins the presidency, it will not mean what Boomers want it to mean. It will not mean a return to the 60's. Obama will still have to deal with Christians, Catholics and the moral conservatives who see what is wrong with the culture. The internet is the new technology that they latched onto and they will now be heard. Remember that there is a huge contingent of Republicans who will vote for Obama.

No amount of childish, hand wringing and name calling from aging, balding, boomer rebel wannabees will ever change that.

The reaction to Ezra's brilliant You Tube videos show that his voice will now be heard in Canada too. Ezra is now a real person who has real views. He and his supporters cannot just be labelled and dismissed with childish names and rhetoric. That is the path that a true bigot takes. Bigots reduce people to the most inhuman, garrish stereotypes in their own mind as a way of not having to deal with them as human beings. To deal with them as human beings means accepting new ideas. It means that the old ideas and assumptions were flawed and didn't work.

I could be wrong, but that dawning reality is what I suspect bothers boomers like Kinsella the most.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 12:03 PM