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July 26, 2013
By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
American Thinker
The Rolling Stone's cover glamorizing Dzojar Tsarnayev should not have surprised: the cultural left was born hating American power and blaming it for the poverty and oppression of indigenous, darker skinned, Third Worlders who naturally and justifiably hate us. Expressing admiration for violent anti-Americans has for a long time been a way for the disaffected to exclaim how much they are not like the white imperialists they live among, how - unlike us, they are noble souls, standing with the righteous and the oppressed.
In his masterful book, "Bobos in Paradise," New York Times columnist and author, David Brooks, explained -- better than anyone before him -- how therapeutic this sort of thing can be for middle class youth who find themselves living off the wealth of their parents -- and Western capitalism in general -- a wealth they sense is undeserved, a wealth they feel traps them in an immorally privileged corner.
In the sixties, these folks cried out against their "white skin privilege," tried to join the Black Panthers, and cheered the Viet Cong. This has old, known, even pre-political roots. Ever since Jean Jacques Rousseau cursed the emerging artificially sophisticated modern city life and contrasted it with the purer, nobler bygone days of agrarian society, much of the Western middle class developed a romance with the "unspoiled primitive," a vision Rousseau captured in his description of "the noble savage." Artists like Gaugin went to live with and glorify the natives... Anthropologists studied the Trobriand Islanders, seeking the secrets of our lost natures....
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By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
American Thinker
The Rolling Stone's cover glamorizing Dzojar Tsarnayev should not have surprised: the cultural left was born hating American power and blaming it for the poverty and oppression of indigenous, darker skinned, Third Worlders who naturally and justifiably hate us. Expressing admiration for violent anti-Americans has for a long time been a way for the disaffected to exclaim how much they are not like the white imperialists they live among, how - unlike us, they are noble souls, standing with the righteous and the oppressed.
In his masterful book, "Bobos in Paradise," New York Times columnist and author, David Brooks, explained -- better than anyone before him -- how therapeutic this sort of thing can be for middle class youth who find themselves living off the wealth of their parents -- and Western capitalism in general -- a wealth they sense is undeserved, a wealth they feel traps them in an immorally privileged corner.
In the sixties, these folks cried out against their "white skin privilege," tried to join the Black Panthers, and cheered the Viet Cong. This has old, known, even pre-political roots. Ever since Jean Jacques Rousseau cursed the emerging artificially sophisticated modern city life and contrasted it with the purer, nobler bygone days of agrarian society, much of the Western middle class developed a romance with the "unspoiled primitive," a vision Rousseau captured in his description of "the noble savage." Artists like Gaugin went to live with and glorify the natives... Anthropologists studied the Trobriand Islanders, seeking the secrets of our lost natures....
Read more: Articles: Rolling Stoned: From Che Guevara to Dzojar Tsarnayev
Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook
