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

[Michael H. Murphy]

Thank heaven for bacteria -- that's the only culture some people have.

Murf

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> 
> 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.
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