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

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

I wrote this reply to Vaska's comment:
> >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. 

and Sojourner replied:
> Only one quibble, Tribble, . . .
> 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.

Yes but as I said mass media and marketing push what I see as
inanimateness--I didn't say they caused it.  Where's the trouble, Bubble?

	Steve Maas