Rock & Roll and Language (was: 70s crap)

[Sojourner]

At 11:38 AM 7/17/97 -0400, Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:

>> Vaska wrote: [snip] "I love the American temperament, its vigour and its
>> sheer aliveness, . . . but the underside of that vitality is this
>> quickness to draw the gun, to reach for the extreme, to trample over the
>> differences. 
>
>These days it seems that that "underside" is in the ascendancy and that
>that "aliveness" you mention is swiftly transforming into a certain form
>of inanimateness as pushed in our mass media and mass marketing. 
>

Only one quibble, Tribble, and I'll dribble till you sue me for libel.  *grin*

>of inanimateness as pushed in our mass media and mass marketing. 
                                      ^^^^^^

We are consumers of media.  It makes a profit and we buy it.  It might be
advertised, hawked
or put out for your temptation, but it is YOU who buys it and YOU who sets
what the standards
of the products you buy.  If you don't want it, don't buy it.


	"Nothing a man likes better than to get
	 his hands around a magically delicious slogan."

		--Sojourner (circa 1997)