[TheForge] "Put an end to annoying road trip songs." WAY OT

[Andy Vida]

Bruce Freeman wrote:

> Nowadays we're gonna displace what culture we have left with canned
> "culture."  (At least in the mainstream.)

	People do it because it's easier.  We've been programmed
	to regard anything that involves work as torment and to
	love the easy.  How in hell do you think the women of this
	nation were fooled into accepting the large body of idiocy
	that comprises the bulk of the feminist agenda?  Remember
	the TV ads where "woman's work" was portrayed as torture,
	and how "Comet" and "Aerowax" were going to put it all to
	rights?  Perhaps nothing wrong with that per se, but we
	left the middle path for the lowest road, and here by "we"
	I mean the nation on the whole and not every breathing soul
	that walks the ground.
> 
> The French want to restrict importation of US media into France so that
> they can maintain significant French programming.  My sympathies are
> with them.

	That won't work either.  People want what they want and
	they will get it.  The drug war should have proven that
	most conclusively by now.  They'll just buy it over the
	internet.  What shall the Frenchies do, open every package
	looking for US contraband?  Will they found the MEA (Media
	Enforcement Agency) and adopt civil forfeiture laws for
	those even accused of watching The Simpsons?  I can see it
	now... jack-booted thugs in black garb bursting though the
	doors of the chateau... "on ze fleur... all uv yeux...
	Yeux are under ze arreste feur watching Married Wis Shildraan"
	The chateaux falls into the hands of a top level guv officielle
	who has has his eyes on that nifty little place for quite tome
	time and everyone lives `appily ever after... except for ze
	crimimales, `oo are crying zeir eye out as "Funny" Pierre 
	`ammers `is large and lonely French bread `ome yet again."
	"Take ZAT, yeux evil, yet juicy and unnaturally attractive
	watcher of Americaine mass media..."

	What they don't see is the fallout... neighbors turning in
	neighbors, planting DVD's of "The Matrix" under the garden
	shed of the guy down the block that they don't particularly
	care for.  France will eventually eat itself in a frenzy of
	Orwellian snitchery, where "getting matrixed" becomes a
	daily worry for rank and file frogs.
> 
> Fortunately, there ARE Americans who are preserving our musical
> heritage.  Country Dance and Song Society (Boston) for one.

	Doc and Merle Watson.  Yeeeeeeeha!

	The 70.7% of the people that make up the mean bulk of
	idiocy of any given population are a dangerous mob, but
	that doesn't mean that there are not plenty of intelligent
	and good folks keeping worthwhile things alive.
> 
> (Rant over.)

	But you were doing such a good job.