Radicalism of reading

[Joshua Fruhlinger]

At 10:37 AM -0500 05.02.97, Greg Montalbano wrote:
>To which we should add the perpetual mistrust of people who "are always
>readin' them daim' BOOKS" -- anti-intellectual feeling seems to be at an
>all-time high in America these days (or am I just being PARANOID?).
>The Gump-like perception that "dumbness will see you through" can be found
>everywhere in the media, from politics ("Now, ahm just a simple country
>boy...") to the arts (don't need no education;  native enthusiasm & just
>plain GUTS will do the job).

Oh, sir, do not forget Ebonics, the language of the downtrodden and those
without educational 'tunities, in an endless search for political and
social legitimacy, a march for lingual secession that no doubt makes
Linguistics majors croak and moan in the name of structure.

Cheers

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