A Curious Phenomenon

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   I wouldn't say people put down prog all that much, but there is definitely something going on. People distance themselves in some ways, to all genres. For me that's a reaction to a wave of "open-mindedness fascism" (heh), that means you have nothing to say unless you are extremely eclectic in your taste. Naturally, this is generalization and my interpretation, but it feels that way. Not just here, but just about everywhere! It's a climate where you can't truly be open-minded and still prefer prog and all things prog first and foremost due to taste alone. Call it neo-elitism if you will. 
I think that's at least part of it.

But there's a positive side to it as well. Distancing yourself can be a very effective way to look at things in another way and something that can lead to new discoveries and facilitate a less trench-warfare look on music.   

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LinusW Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 27 2007 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 10665	Posted: February 21 2010 at 11:39
	I wouldn't say people put down prog all that much, but there is definitely something going on. People distance themselves in some ways, to all genres. For me that's a reaction to a wave of "open-mindedness fascism" (heh), that means you have nothing to say unless you are extremely eclectic in your taste. Naturally, this is generalization and my interpretation, but it feels that way. Not just here, but just about everywhere! It's a climate where you can't truly be open-minded and still prefer prog and all things prog first and foremost due to taste alone. Call it neo-elitism if you will. I think that's at least part of it. But there's a positive side to it as well. Distancing yourself can be a very effective way to look at things in another way and something that can lead to new discoveries and facilitate a less trench-warfare look on music.

Rune2000 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 23 2004 Location: STHLM, Sweden Status: Offline Points: 1833	Posted: February 21 2010 at 11:34
	I agree with this trend but don't see any harm done. Personally I've been listening to more progressive music in the last few month than what I've done in the two previous years which can probably explain my high activity lately.

lucas Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 06 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 8138	Posted: February 21 2010 at 11:30
	Spare the rod and spoil the child ? Edited by lucas - February 21 2010 at 11:31
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Raff Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 29 2005 Location: None Status: Offline Points: 24429	Posted: February 21 2010 at 11:22
	First of all, I apologize if this thread sounds in any way confrontational, because it is not meant to be. However, I cannot deny that in the past few months I have noticed a curious phenomenon spreading around the site - people who seize every opportunity to put down prog, to stress how much they like to listen to other kinds of music (as if the rest of us didn't), or how boring prog is, and so on. And I am not talking about occasional visitors, but people who have been around for quite a long time. While in a way this could be considered as the inevitable consequence of the (equally, if not more) irritating attitude of many members, expressed in the many "woe is me - everyone hates Prog!" threads that ever so often rear their ugly heads, I have to wonder at why someone who is not particularly interested in prog keeps on visiting a prog forum. Possibly to make us see the error of our ways? Useless, at least in my case, because I am a very open-minded person, and listen to many different genres of music - and then, I know all too well how much really bad prog there is around (I have shelves full of CDs I wish I had never heard before, though at least I didn't have to pay for them). Or is it a form of masochism, or rather love turning to hatred?