Is anyone else intrigued by our ascetic radicals?

[DerekG]

If I were to embrace a label, I suppose I'd identify myself as a Christian socialist. Having said this, I am thoroughly disgusted with the vulgarities associated with the 60's counterculture (free love, drug abuse), which are now perceived--rightly or *wrongly*--to be part and parcel to cultural liberalism. Ergo, I have a proclivity for admiring individuals and organizations that stand in opposition to hedonism: Malcolm X (under the banner of the Nation of Islam, and later, traditional Islam) Dorothy Day and Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan (members of the Catholic Left).

There is something inherently cool about a rebel who can pull the proverbial rug out from under those faux-moral watchdogs on the Right.

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Those 60s vulgarities

They were not originally vulgar whatsoever. But once our Steak-Into-Hamburger culture laid into them, they were debased faster than the 1922 Hungarian Pengo.

--p!

[DerekG]

2. I find nothing laudable about LSD

That poison made fools out of many would-be dissenters.

[Snap]

3. Different Strokes

And perhaps its a mild form of despair disguised as a virtue.