There are a two or three types of rebels today—there are the pierced nipple people who are against capitalism, the united States, and anything conservative—but they’re hardly the traditional definition of “rebels” since they all look and act the same in mass numbers and many even wear face masks and similar wardrobe to the extent that they actually appear to be wearing a uniform when doing their rebellious duty; and there are people like me, and Doug Giles, and other columnists and people who visit this Web site.
Doug Giles takes a look at how a rebel might be described today in this excellent column.
[…] The big question is: What would a young rebel look like today? What would the new millennium’s James Dean war against and stand for? Well, if you’re talking about the young person who is unfortunately stuck in the public school system or in one of the multitudinous left leaning college classrooms, he would be bristling against the uncut atheism, secular liberalism and moral relativism that these places of propaganda ram rod down the throats of the masses 24/7.
In addition, if you’re talking about fording the prevailing streams of postmodern media, then that too would entail going against atheism, nihilism, secular liberalism and hedonism.
Yes, today’s rebel, today’s bad boy, would actually be a good, principled guy in the midst of culture that has the morals of a drunken alley cat. Yeah, everything that was rebellious, hip, cool and avant garde in the sixties has pretty much politically and morally left us in shambles, has failed miserably and is very common place and passÃ
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