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

[Sojourner]

At 12:56 PM 7/17/97 -0400, Steven Maas (CUTR) wrote:

>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 (hey, that's me!) 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?

Or, as I crooned in the soft summer nights of my 9th year upon this earth, 
gazing fondly at my rugged and proud black DIGITAL Texas Instrument 
watch, LCD.... elseedee.... elseedee..

The word mass implies the greatest number.  And our current theme is to 
reduce all values to the masses to their Lowest Common Denominate-ORE 
(not to be confused with Calculus, or "Instantaneous Rates of Change 
Terminate-ORE") because we reject all values for ourselves as a whole which 
do not cater to everyone's weakness, inability and lack of firm beliefs.

In other words, till we get ourselves a point to head towards, we're 
gonna just spread out a while.  *grin*


	"There's nothing a man likes better than to get
	 his hands around two all-beef patties of
	 self-immolation."

		--Sojourner (circa 1997)