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Points: 98 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2008 at 07:56
Originally posted by Draith Draith wrote:

so he's just making himself/herself just look more like an idiot. 


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Points: 67 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 06 2008 at 00:24
Intellectual snobs criticizing whom they perceive as intellectual snobs. Quite ironic and hypocritical. Both politics and prog are for the more intellectual anyways (as band and AP classes have pretty much proven in my school), so he's just making himself/herself just look more like an idiot. I guess you can compare the two with just about anything too intellectual for mainstream society like astrophysics.
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2008 at 21:51

^ a point made even more ridiculous by the simple fact that most punk & new wave artists were middle-class themselves.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2008 at 21:13
I guess that would be a good analogy if all of what the person said about prog was true, but it's typical nonsense expectant of a typical rocker who always thought prog was crap because other high and might music critics thought so. Listen to some music and form yer own opinion.

Is music made by middle-class people worse than that by lower-class? I see no correlation, but apparently if your lower-class, yer cred is already skyrocketing even if you haven't played a good f**king note!
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Points: 4659 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 05 2008 at 20:51
Here's an analogy that might help you see party conferences for what they are - party politics is just like prog rock.

Both are pompous self-referential masturbatory activities undertaken by mostly middle-class white boys, which are meaningless and irrelevant to most people.

Though its fans and practitioners believe what they're doing is important and look down upon those who fail to appreciate this, the truth is that anyone with genuine intellect or taste is wholly alienated from the process.

Leaders' speeches or policy initiatives are like 20-minute guitar solos. They are not intended to connect with the outside world, or with facts and ideas, but are merely ways to impress the cognoscenti for a short while. (...)

Read more: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2007/09/politics-as-pro.html




Edited by M@X - January 06 2008 at 09:27
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