Culture is Bad??

[katemackim]

I was listening to the radio, and commericals kept bashing the idea of reading classics, or opera or ballet was bad.  They were portrayed as boring and stuff and not for the common man

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[wendolen]

It's not just you.

[katemackim]

that makes me feel better.

[helix90]

I'm sure you read Huxley with me.

They are trying to make more betas.

[katemackim]

so what does that make us. the People on the island, who refuse to accept the culture?

dysfunctional Alphas?

[icebluenothing]

There's a McDonald's commercial on the radio now with someone wittering on about someone who cured their "intellectual snobbery" with McD's cheap lattes. "I don't watch documentaries anymore -- now I watch reality television! Thanks, McDonald's!"

It sends me into a blind red murderous rage each time I hear it.

Cynical Panda is Cynical

[oyaji_no_panda]

You betcha, wink wink.

For some funny reason, ignorance is held to be the equal of hard-won, hard-earned knowledge.

It strikes me as curious that we often see scientists attending artistic performances, but artists do not seem to attend scientific lectures. Yet who is it who gets described as dull and close-minded, only seeing their one narrow little discipline?

(growf)