> SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com wrote:
>
> "Anyway, it is US culture i find distasteful and not its intellectual
> patterns.
> Creationism is more a cultural entity than science?"
>
> Andrew Bahn replied:
>
> And so is Rock-n-roll, blues, Jazz, Andy Warhol, Charles Bukowski,
> Pirsig, Ani, and so on. Our culture is not only defined by George W.
> Bush, Britney Spears, Coke, and Hollywood. There is a strong minority
> of Americans who find these entities as distasteful as the rest of the
> world. Despite CNN and the opinions of some of the participants to
> this forum, many Americans are not caught up in the wave of patriotism
> that is being shown to the rest of the world. We are not all as
> egotistical and as arrogant as ROG. Although, most of us would prefer
> to ignore this vocal wave of embarrassment, sadly as it does reflect on
> all of us. But, what are we to do? It still is a free country and as
> much our sentimentalities want to say, "Please, Dubya, ROG, Fox News --
> don't say another word, we beg you"; if we are going to fight and speak
> up against Tom Ashcroft and others as they attempt to strip away hard
> earned civil liberties, then we have to put up with this obnoxious
> vocal minority making an ass of all of us to the rest of the world.
You've mentioned two minorities here, and logic dictates that two
minorities cannot comprise the whole. I'm not disagreeing with you, mind
you. If you are right, then there is at least one other group, maybe
more. Almost certainly more, I would contend, considering I apparently
belong to one of the tiniest minorities of them all: a fundamentalist
liberal ;)
George
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