From: bogul@nospambog.net   
      
   Steve Daniels  wrote in   
   news:874l81t6ahdvjeksipa305e5d95u8s69c8@4ax.com:   
      
   > On Sat, 14 May 2005 10:31:41 -0500, against all advice, something   
   > compelled Larry Huntley , to say:   
   >   
   >>Knowleman stepped up to the podium, tapped the forlorn-looking SM57,   
   >>asked "Is this thing on?" and, in alt.music.bluegrass, message   
   >>news:c04ca9e8.0502161624.75afe9b1@posting.google.com, prounounced:   
   >   
   > I can't find the original article in my news spool, so am   
   > piggybacking onto Larry's post.   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   >>> The reason for this is because we regard ourselves as relatively   
   >>> well informed Europeans and as such, have some serious concerns   
   >>> about the culture within the american states with which bluegrass is   
   >>> naturally associated. We dislike George Bush and his politics   
   >>> we dislike racism   
   >>> and we dislike religious fundamentalism in any form, whether it be   
   >>> islamic from the middle east or evangelical christian from the   
   >>> central/southern states of the USA. We believe all of these things   
   >>> are bad news for the planet and for the future of our kids.   
   >   
   > Folk music in general, and bluegrass in particular are genres   
   > attractive to the most liberal of our citizens.  Not to say that   
   > there are no Christian conservative people that like it, but in   
   > general folkies are pretty liberal.   
   >   
      
   Huh? Upon what are you basing this? Unless you have some study in hand or   
   some hard numbers this this is simply blind speculation on your part.   
   This is playing into the original posters hand and pandering to them on a   
   point where they need to examine their motives.   
      
   If you appriciate an art form then it's a deeply personal experience.   
   But, if you feel the need to some how "fit in" with the other fans in   
   order to enjoy it then I'm sorry my friend... you're not a fan... you're   
   a sheep. If you listen to folk music because you view it as "liberal"   
   then you're not a folk music fan, you're just a "liberal" seeking out   
   validation.   
      
   If you're at an art gallery and you see an awesome painting... it touches   
   you. But... out of the corner of your eye you see a KKK member likes it   
   too... do you decide that you can no longer appriciate it because he   
   does? If you do ... again ... a sheep   
      
      
   > But you know what?  If you're going to reject a form of music   
   > that you've grown to appreciate because you might not like some   
   > of the people (whom you've never met, by the by) that also like   
   > it, then give it up.  Quit listening.  You'll hurt no one, and   
   > that precious Self Righteous Feeling you get by denying yourself   
   > something you've come to enjoy will be so worth it.   
      
   (Steve... if you were being sarcastic then I appologise... I'm taking you   
   literally)   
      
   Or... You could grow up and enjoy the things in your life free and clear   
   of the desire to fit in or be accepted and punt the self-righteousness.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)