Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You Read Free Page A

wonder Mitt Romney was mocked as a superficial loser with no real accomplishments (as defined by the media). All he did was build a business empire and make money, for himself and others. And then, Christ almighty, he gave a ton of it away. Good riddance to the mean, old evil Mormon. Better to elect a guy like Obama, who spreads others’ wealth around by force.
    Movements that reject American values in favor of American guilt . See Occupy Wall Street as one example, rejected by sensible Americans who dislike public defecation but coddled by the media, which ultimately left when the shit hit the fan, and street. How else can a Weather Underground terrorist end up teaching our kids on campuses instead of waiting for the needle on death row?
    Anti-Americanism touted as appeasement to our international adversaries . It’s never “their” fault; it’s always ours. Even when their brutality exists despite our benevolence (see the money we shovel into Egypt, as they continue to torture and kill Coptic Christians, a sect treated as an underclass by the Muslim Brotherhood). We used to advocate assimilation to recent immigrants; now we wonder if we haven’t assimilated to
them
enough. The depth of this anti-exceptionalism is frightening. We have people flocking from horrible countries to ours with hopes of replicating here the same systems that destroyed their countries. It’s happening in England, France, and now in Boston. Because of the cool view that America is fundamentally flawed, we cannot question those who come here to undermine the free-est, greatest country ever devised.
Maybe it is our fault for the Boston Marathon bombing
, ponder the progressive jackasses among us. And it allows for an insidious relativism, as witnessed in the comparisons of Muslim extremism to other kinds of religious extremism in the United States. But it’s not apples to apples. It’s apples to razor blades.
    Evil in film as a lesson plan for a romantic, rebellious reality . The cool’s hold on society’s throat is at its finest in the film industry. Any person, organization, or thing that rebels against structure is heroic, while anyone with a BlackBerry ora briefcase is Hollywood shorthand for evil. He probably just ate a baby. And not a free-range one, either.
    If you question whether abortion should be seen as different from removing a tumor, then you must hate women . How can you deny happiness to everyone? (Fetus not included.) And that’s why the cool—married to abortion at any cost—seem reticent on the murderous abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell. If he had used a gun, it would have been the subject of an awful celebrity-laden music video.
    Assorted slugs on death row are cool; their victims, forgotten roadkill . This theme runs through art and pop culture like E. coli in a Tijuana cafeteria. There are more movies, songs, plays, and websites about killers than about their victims. Victims are boring; their tormenters, deep. Hence there are songs about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and poems about the Chechen bombers, but none about the folks they killed. Disguised as empathy, this behavior is simply an exercise in ego: The empathizer wants you to view them as cool for seeing beyond the obvious evil of the act. To the cool, empathy is “deep.” It’s “challenging.” To a tougher, more realistic past America, it was “bullshit.”
    Politics is way cool, as long as it’s progressive . Conservatives by nature hate politics and politicians. Liberals love them because it makes them feel cool. It’s a must for everyone to “be involved.” Talk to any liberal friend and they’re running for office even when they’re simply running their mouth. “I have to tell you about the bake sale we had for homeless water snakes.” No you don’t, but you will. Meanwhile, if you talk about an issue that doesn’t fit preapproved hip criteria, then the “it’s cool to be involved” premise goes out the window. Say something about being