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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,soc.culture.usa,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Allan Bloom, Micheal Medved and Jack Chick
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.193334.10043@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:33:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.144008.22923@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> gsmith@polyhymnia.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
- >Here I am, happily reading this 'Bad Satan Psycho-Juju' by Rev P-K
- >Siano article debunking the Satanism Conspiracy, when suddenly a new
- >conspiracy looms--the Curmudgeon Conspiracy! It seems we've got to
- >protect people against the dangerous lunacy of people like Tipper
- >Gore, Allan Bloom and Micheal Medved.
- ...
- >>This demonization of different subcultures, linking them to
- >>harmful mental and physical effects, has become a popular tactic these
- >>days. It's not enough to just <dislike> something; one has to show that
- >>it's as physically or psychologically <harmful> as dioxin or PCP. In a
- >>notorious passage in <The Closing of the American Mind>, Allan Bloom
- >>described, in lurid Humbert Humbert detail, twelve-year-olds forsaking
- >>Plato and Aristotle and throbbing sexually to rock music on their Sony
- >>Walkmans.
- >What a terrible thing! How dare this man not like rock and roll. If
- >we allow
-
- Suggesting that an opinion is worthless or even harmful is not the same as
- suggesting that it be disallowed.
-
- >people to have opinions on what sort of music they don't like
- >and think is bad, what will they have opinions about next--movies??
-
- And of course the problem with this particular opinion is not merely that
- someone dislikes rock and roll. Reread the passage, paying attention to the
- phrase
- It's not enough to just <dislike> something; one has to show that
- it's as physically or psychologically <harmful> as dioxin or PCP.
- It's not that this man dares not like rock and roll, it's that he dares
- take the step from "I don't like rock and roll" to "rock and roll is a
- pernicious influence on our society".
- --
- "On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Leftover Turkey!
- On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me... Turkey Casserole
- that she made from Leftover Turkey.
- [days 3-4 deleted] ... Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
- -- Pizza Hut commercial (and M*tlu/A*gic bait)
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
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