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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Allan Bloom, Micheal Medved and Jack Chick
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.201339.8841@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1993Jan23.144008.22923@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <1993Jan23.193334.10043@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1993Jan25.114837.17888@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:13:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.114837.17888@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith) writes:
- >>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".
- >If you don't think Bloom's opinions are pernicious, why do they worry
- >you? And if you do think they are pernicious, aren't you skating
- >close to a contradiction?
-
- Music is not an opinion. Music may _contain_ opinions, but that's not the
- same thing.
-
- If Bloom had said "so-and-so opinions, which I see in music, are a pernicious
- influence on our society", that would be different.
- --
- "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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