Beware: Lisa Simpson Is Crunchy
[NRO Staff  03/08 10:31 AM]

An e-mail:

Yeah, this whole Homer Simpson thing has gotten completely out of control.
I don't really have a lot invested in this discussion in general, but my
advice to crunchies is: ditch the Homer Simpson thing. It's absurd.
Homer Simpson, Hank Hill, and Archie Bunker are not in any way crunchy.
The virtues that the're being lauded for aren't crunchy: they're just
plain old conservative. Trying to pull them into the crunchy net voids
crunchiness of all meaning — as though "crunchy" just meant "conservative".
This is ridiculous.

Indeed, Lisa Simpson is the crunchy of her family, and she is a bit
sanctimonious and insufferable. Something the crunchies should take heed
of. However, Lisa is also often the lone moral representative of her
family, and is in general more knowledgeable than they are (though maybe
not wiser.) Yet although she is a liberal, she maybe represents the
position crunchies find themselves in: they might have the moral high
ground, but no one likes being lectured to.

If crunchies want to be taken seriously, it seems they need to stop taking
credit for ideas that aren't theirs, and recognize their place as just one
conservative lifestyle among many. Only then could they begin to persuade
others that their lifestyle is attractive.