'Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults... Seventy-five percent of American "gamers" -- people who play video games -- are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote... Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste.
Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances. But the appearances that people choose to present in public are cues from which we make inferences about their maturity and respect for those to whom they are presenting themselves.'Update: here's the link to the entire daft editorial (why doesn't anyone point stuff like this out?)
Washington Post
Oh dear. Old man Grumpy stopped yelling at the kids to get off his lawn and went inside and watched "King O' The Mountain Of Debt" or "Narcissistic Women Who Have Too Much Money, Failing Looks And No Fucking Brains At All" on cable TV channel #13013.

Why are people wearing jeans? Why do middle-aged men buy Harleys? Because they have the cachet of a Bad Boy past that has become acceptable and chic, their edginess worn down by years of desensitization and the onset of rose-colored amnesia. Motorcycle gangs are selling meth while mid-life-crisis men with money to burn are cruising the Interstates on two wheels. What was once openly rebellious or uncouth is now simply "cool" (and the Hells Angels just another drug cartel). So it is with denim, along with the other minor little point that jeans also happen to be comfortable and low-maintenance. For those wishing to actually make a statement there are $1000 jeans at upscale shoppes which have a superficial gloss of class and the same degree of comfort when you squeeze your ass into them.

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Every day these asshats confirm my suspicions from decades before, that they are so obsessed with caste and conformity they stifle all human potential. Just imagine having your destiny placed in the hands of one of these maroons ... you wouldn't get far.
Heh. "Goldwater conservative"....
I daresay that Barry Goldwater, despite being a classic commie-hating John Birch conservative, would very likely not have a place in today's Republican Party.
Because Barry was more of a social libertarian than people remember--he didn't care what gays did, believed in truly free speech and full separation of church and state, and felt that women were entitled to abortions if desired.
In fact, if Barry were here today, he'd probably punch the effete East Coast twit George Will in his pinched little nose. The fucking bizarre paranoid Jesus-freak show called the 21st-century GOP could use some more crusty old bastards like Goldwater.
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