The white people I've known to wear this certain haircut - a straight, bristling array of blonde-to-brown hair, cut short and densely gelled to point straight upwards, though at an angle over the forehead - have universally been conservative bigots at worst, the status quo at best; the very definition of a "square", or someone repugnant (if, given the latter example, you wish to look further into the moral and political ramifications of their personality).
Allow me to present an example...as seen in the attachment below.
The exhibit is Tom Brodbeck, a columnist of local conservative newspaper The Winnipeg Sun. For at least a decade he has written articles every week on how urban violence is escalating and advocates Death Wish-style punishment (by now you'd be spotting victims' corpses on the daily Winnipeg commute). And his articles have only tried to dismiss charges of racism against a figure in the news, instead of accepting that, well, racism still exists. Enough said.
Like minivans, the possessing of this spiked haircut displays a deliberate socio-cultural mindset that is only related to one's own choice; the mini-van is to the suburb as the close-cropped spiked haircut is to the white status quo. A superficial element, yes, but one relevant to note in our time of images purchased by and sold to the consumer so they spend money - not just a mere object, but one inseparable from self-identity.
It's similar to when you begin to notice the devout churchgoers among you - clothed in obsessively well-pressed pants and dress shirts, which are brightly colored and worn with a plastered on smile like they're so happy to meet whomever passes for an acquaintance. But this isn't general niceness to others that I'm referring to - it's deliberation. As in, when you meet them and converse for a reasonable amount of time, they don't seem to express a range of human expressions - they are conservative with them.
Because, let's be honest - our political and moral views do inform who we are and how we interact with the world around us. But when not analyzing an obvious youth subculture (which are always self-defined), it's more difficult to pick out social groups and their values - obviously, there are many racists and conservatives and "squares" (which I define as those who will only follow mass culture) who have different haircuts.
But those with this makeup I've described follows the true conservative, status quo definition of being very vocal about politics without being very interested in the topic.
For an example, I point to the conservative party of canada retaining their followers by telling them the government operates in a way contrary to how it is actually run - within the party's comments that a coalition gov't is a trying a "coup de'tat" and is "undemocratic" because Harper was elected prime minister, not the opposition leader - criticism that wouldn't hold weight to conservative voters if they paid attention in Grade 10 social studies.
Those with this hair style seem to fit the theory I've laid out, based on my own observations, which reach into my preteen years when my parents placed me in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets because they felt I needed some discipline.
Also, I would like to note that I am suffering from male pattern baldness, not slowly turning into a skinhead.
Neo-nazis have their own acquired symbolism that developed over time. It's not like in all time without beginning or end they associated their fascism with shaved heads.
My problem is trying to narrow down just what the hell this status quo conservatism is that I'm speaking of - there are elements I touched on here, and perhaps some will add to or utterly rebuke my little piece here.
EDIT: There's a narrow line between prejudice and ignorance, as I stated of Brodbeck failing to acknowledge any actual racism around him, and it is that line the Spiked Ones tread...
Allow me to present an example...as seen in the attachment below.
The exhibit is Tom Brodbeck, a columnist of local conservative newspaper The Winnipeg Sun. For at least a decade he has written articles every week on how urban violence is escalating and advocates Death Wish-style punishment (by now you'd be spotting victims' corpses on the daily Winnipeg commute). And his articles have only tried to dismiss charges of racism against a figure in the news, instead of accepting that, well, racism still exists. Enough said.
Like minivans, the possessing of this spiked haircut displays a deliberate socio-cultural mindset that is only related to one's own choice; the mini-van is to the suburb as the close-cropped spiked haircut is to the white status quo. A superficial element, yes, but one relevant to note in our time of images purchased by and sold to the consumer so they spend money - not just a mere object, but one inseparable from self-identity.
It's similar to when you begin to notice the devout churchgoers among you - clothed in obsessively well-pressed pants and dress shirts, which are brightly colored and worn with a plastered on smile like they're so happy to meet whomever passes for an acquaintance. But this isn't general niceness to others that I'm referring to - it's deliberation. As in, when you meet them and converse for a reasonable amount of time, they don't seem to express a range of human expressions - they are conservative with them.
Because, let's be honest - our political and moral views do inform who we are and how we interact with the world around us. But when not analyzing an obvious youth subculture (which are always self-defined), it's more difficult to pick out social groups and their values - obviously, there are many racists and conservatives and "squares" (which I define as those who will only follow mass culture) who have different haircuts.
But those with this makeup I've described follows the true conservative, status quo definition of being very vocal about politics without being very interested in the topic.
For an example, I point to the conservative party of canada retaining their followers by telling them the government operates in a way contrary to how it is actually run - within the party's comments that a coalition gov't is a trying a "coup de'tat" and is "undemocratic" because Harper was elected prime minister, not the opposition leader - criticism that wouldn't hold weight to conservative voters if they paid attention in Grade 10 social studies.
Those with this hair style seem to fit the theory I've laid out, based on my own observations, which reach into my preteen years when my parents placed me in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets because they felt I needed some discipline.
Also, I would like to note that I am suffering from male pattern baldness, not slowly turning into a skinhead.
Neo-nazis have their own acquired symbolism that developed over time. It's not like in all time without beginning or end they associated their fascism with shaved heads.
My problem is trying to narrow down just what the hell this status quo conservatism is that I'm speaking of - there are elements I touched on here, and perhaps some will add to or utterly rebuke my little piece here.
EDIT: There's a narrow line between prejudice and ignorance, as I stated of Brodbeck failing to acknowledge any actual racism around him, and it is that line the Spiked Ones tread...
