JONAH CONFUSES HYGIENE WITH MORALITY

Goldberg is at it again! His latest screed, "Society owes thanks to safeguards of tradition," attacks the hippies, yes, the hippies, one of the standard enemies for half-wit conservatives, for having poor personal hygiene:

Living like Rousseau's noble savages brought back the twitch, the thrush and the rot because it was a grand lie that savagery was ever noble in the first place, and because a lot of that stuff your grandmother taught you about everything from washing your hands to not sleeping around actually had practical relevance.

The next trick by Jonah is to convert hygiene into morality:

Those hippies got the itch and twitch because they rejected what their parents taught them. They believed that we could act as if this was Year Zero and the world could be reinvented and reimagined from scratch. It's inconceivable that their parents knew what the exact consequences of rejecting traditional morality would be, but they knew on a dogmatic level that it was a bad idea.