From: sdaniels@gorge.net   
      
   On 18 May 2005 14:41:06 GMT, against all advice, something   
   compelled bogul , to say:   
      
   >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.   
      
   I'm basing it on my life experience.  Perhaps you've confused a   
   usenet post with an academic thesis, where studies and proofs are   
   required.   
      
   >This is playing into the original posters hand and pandering to them on a   
   >point where they need to examine their motives.   
      
   Bullshit.   
      
   >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.   
      
   *I* don't listen to it with any kind of political meaning   
   whatever.  The Ernest Europeans are doing this, case you didn't   
   pick up on it.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Back in grade school we had this thing called Reading for   
   Comprehension.  Perhaps you were absent that day.   
      
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