The Next Culture?
It’s suggested in this video by the Zionist-critical group The Shondes, whose lead singer and guitarist is one Rabbi Louisa Solomon. My point is the way it touches all the woke bases, besides the defiant dig at the Jewish squares in the title (‘Shonde’ means shame in Yiddish). Does this culture have a future? The hippies certainly did. They (we?) were deep on opposing the War in Vietnam (e.g., U.S. imperialism), racism, homophobia, sexism, and Nixon. The sexism part was a little wobbly (“We can share the women, we can share the wine . . . “), but the rest endured, big time.
This new culture is strong in the entertainment industry, but it is fighting a bitter, pitched battle in academia, and as noted, in U.S. Jewish institutions. In politics I think it’s possible to admit it has driven the white population, especially the working class, to the right, to the Mango Mussolini. At least for the moment.
That may not be permanent. One of my favorite old stories. When I started at an all-boys college in 1967, in New Brunswick NJ, one of the freshmen was a manifest hippie. We used to call him “The Flit.” Everybody bullied him. I called him “The Flit” (not to his face). (Flit was a bug spray.) My eminent history professor Peter Charanis used to heckle him from the stage during his lectures, in front of two hundred students. There was one other student with long blond hair, but he looked like a cross between the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Nobody bothered him.
Two years later, everybody was The Flit.
As a freshman, I went to an draft-card burning demonstration on campus. Must have been 1967. Some rowdies, from town I think, threw eggs at the speakers. When Cambodia jumped off in 1970, the whole campus was shut down and the main administration building occupied (and ransacked).
Where I used to work in the 90s, I might have looked a little odd because I would dress somewhat formally for work, but I had long hair. I got the feeling the custodial workers, who also could be on the scruffy side, appreciated it. The class connotations of long hair might have reversed. You never hear “Get a haircut” anymore. That used to be tantamount to a threat. Things can change rapidly, and unexpectedly, in either direction.
In your enumeration of hippy (diminutive of Hipster, q.v. "The White Negro" by Norman Mailer et al) attributes that endure, you neglected rampant drug use. I know, I was there. "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope" may no longer have the same purchase when being unhoused is a possible consequence, but "Dope will get you through" is all over the place now.
I recall the split in the 1960's between the political youth and those like me, although I straddled the line a bit, going to marches, in NYC and its surrounds and then from my new home in the Bay Area. Having fun while doing good. Not that any of this is relevant to your comments here, but Lest We Forget etc.
I'm not sure that the yut' have driven the white working class anywhere. The "culture wars" are about racism, masculinism, and ressentiment. The first two have little to do with the Kids These Days. The first is an American soil condition and the second a consequence of mainstream feminism, which has emasculated the economic sphere, leaving little else but guns for white working class men. Ressentiment? Maybe a bit. But ressentiment is the inversion of values of a perceived dominant class (read "Hillary" or "Massachusetts" or--for the craziest--"Jews.") I'm not sure that the white working class perceives the Kids as dominant, although they may not like the way that the dominant classes tolerate the kids.