George Will Complains about your pants
In case you missed it, Georte Will wrote an editorial where he excoriated blue jeans (and denim), and video games. I do not believe I have much to add that other people who are actually read have not said. George ill’s politics can be best be described as a mix of “Tory Conservative” and “Baseball Fetishism”. The Toryism leads him to a rigid class structure where he is upset about the upper classes slumming it down to what should be worn exclusively by laborers, and he sees Barbarians at the gate sneaking denim into golf courses. The Baseball Fetishism would have Will, if pressed, arguring that this is the worst sight since the advent of the Designated Hitter.
I would think his conservatism would allow for jeans. It’s sturdy and long-lasting, a good thing for a wasteful government to keep in mind, right? It also is something that “has its place” and thus neatly separates tasks — rules of order, his Toryism ought to love that. All this being said, apparently George Will doesn’t want the government to enforce his desired dress code — he just wants societal shaming. I don’t know who will be joining in his distanced “tsk tsk”ing snobbery — I am pretty sure even if I wore what conformed to his standards (granting that I somehow escape his viewing of me as a ‘commoner’), I’d still be too uncouth for his tastes.
In the same article bemoaning the denim Barbarians at the Gates, he goes on to a broadside against video game players. Time for someone to write “George Will Hates My Hobby, but at least my Cat Still Loves Me.”
Seventy-five percent of American “gamers” — people who play video games — are older than 18 and nevertheless are allowed to vote.
Interesting to note that our nation’s engineers and computer programmers (and, hell, internationally as well) herald out of this bunch of “Adult-o-lescents”. They strike me as a fairly conservative lot — though they tend to hold true to the dictates of “Global Warming”. Still, I suppose the electricity they use increases our “carbon footprint”, which might make them amenable to Will’s Climate Change Skepticism.
Well…