Liberal Guilt?
Okay, so this is a combination of two things I've heard in the last two days. I was watching Simpsons, now that the little one loves them, I get to watch too :-) Marge was taking the whole "Junior Braves" troupe to clean up a forest, and to get them fired up, she was shouting "What are we gonna do?" and they replied "Clean up the forest" and then "Why are we doing it?" and the boys replied in a wonderful sendup of our society "Liberal Guilt!". It was great, in a simple little cartoon, Matt Groening can employ those loveable rapscallions to rake the media and stupid people across the coals with humor. I got a snort out of it, the little one laughed because I did, and a good time was had by all.
So today, my wife comes to work to take me out to lunch and tells me a story about how she went to the Half-Price Book Store (great store, you can find some good books for real cheap) and the lady behind her (someone with the full-on hippy garb, ankle length dress, sandals, probably had a leather headband somewhere with a poppy in it) was expounding on the fact that she loved the store, thought it was great that people "recycle" books this way and that we save paper and don't kill as many trees, etc...and then went and jumped in her SHINY NEW CHEVY TAHOE!!!!
Huh?
Liberal Guilt at its finest...I'm sure she recycles, buys the overpriced "organic" veggies from Whole Foods and drinks Soy milk....and burns the shit out of a few hundred dollars worth of gas trying to get to all of these out of the way stores just so she can feel better about the environment. Oh, what bliss to be misguided and hypocritical.