Re: MD Nihilism (Punk)

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 19:40:14 BST

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    Erin:

    > PLATT: Where would rock be today without entrepreneurial capitalism?
    >
    > ERIN: Exactly. You find A (rock-n-roll) and B (degeneracy in America) so
    > you make the assertion A causes B. But as you know correlation doesn't
    > equal causation because of the possibility of a third variable C----and as
    > you put it where would rock-n-roll be without entrepreneurial capitalism.
    > But you would never assert that entrepreneurial capitalism is leading to a
    > narrowing of the mind in America though

    Right, nor would I ever assert that music is narrowing the mind of
    America.

    > I guess you only use overly
    > simplistic generalizations when it suits you.

    As you know, music and capitalism are much broader categories than rock,
    and generalizations by definition are simplistic, like "It's this
    intellectual pattern of amoral 'objectivity' that is to blame for the
    social deterioration of America."." (Lila, 24)

    > When I think of the most
    > dynamic places they are capitlistic but again it is hard for me to imagine
    > them being that dynamic without things like rock-n-roll.

    Can you imagine they would be more dynamic with more pornography?

    Platt

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