1. He homeschools his children--many do not know, but homeschooling was revived in great part revived not by evangelical and fundamental Christians, but rather by hippies in the 1960s and 1970s.
2. He drives rusty cars that are both over a decade old, one of which has a manual transmission.
3. He often rides his bike to work, and his bicycles are well over a decade old.
4. He bakes his own bread.
5. He gardens.
6. Most of his clothes are from natural fibers.
7. He prefers acoustic instruments to electronic.
8. He loves bluegrass music.
9. He has personally repaired and restrung a
10. He makes a fair amount of his own furniture.
11. He's deeply suspicious of the military-industrial complex and government.
So there you go. Your host is not only an conservative fundamental Baptist with libertarian and Calvinistic leanings, but also a hippie. Cue up the Arlo Guthrie! (next post; complete text of "Alice's Restaurant")
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Point 6 should refer to hemp fibers these days. ;^)
A prime candidate for a "Crunchy Con" if there ever was one.
As a conservative Reformed libertarian Baptist punk rocker, I can only say:
DON'T BORE US, GET TO THE CHORUS!
Gabba Gabba Hey (and Semper Reformanda),
JB
Mark: that's where I part ways with the Boulderites, to put it mildly. (hope they enjoy getting thrashed by USC instead of by Nebraska each year!)
As I read this post, I recalled the Hank Williams, Jr. song "A Country Boy Can Survive."
I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
Well, at least when he keeps his distance from the ladies and Jim Beam, who both tried to kill him in 1973, as another of his songs goes!
Welcome, fellow hippie! :^)
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