On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 04:30 AM, George M Jempty wrote:
>> 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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