At 11:35 AM 2/27/03 -0500, Neal wrote:
>
>> Omigod!  There ARE still some people coming up with taste,
>> discrimination, and two brain cells to rub together!  That's
>> encouraging.  
>
>Strangely, I find that rubbing my brain cells together just gets really 
>messy, and the cerebral fluid doesn't wash off the hands at all 
>nicely... and, it stains.. :P



>Ok, seriously, since I'm part-timing at University, I would have to 
>say that the sampling that I have isn't quite "average" but there are 
>a whole *lot* of young 20-ish folk who are quite intelligent, capable 
>of taste, who aren't just mesmerized zombies of pop culture.  

Hooray!  Maybe there is hope.  Being out in the general world rather than
in such a rarefied atmosphere, I find too much of the other to be
comfortable.    

The only reason so-called "reality" TV is doing so well is that it's
getting ratings.  There are still too many zombies out there with no taste.
 We need a campaign to right this egregious wrong!    (As my
younger daughter says, we live too closely at times with cockroaches to
ever think of *eating* one . . .)

>Some of them find it amusing (but then, so do I), some of them find 
>it disgusting or frightening (which I guess I also do at times), but 

Yeah.  Maybe we need to line up the purveyors of this nonsense, right
side-by-side with the lawyers.

>the net result is the same - people who are trying to expand their 
>minds rather than shut them down...  [Most of these people are 
>concerned about the environment, social justice, and the general 
>state of the world, too.  It's quite encouraging.]

Whaddayaknow?  The sixties are back.  

>----
>Thought for the day:
>    I used to be in league with Lucifer, but he never showed up for games
>    and we kept having to forfeit our lane... Bowling sucks anyway.

ROFL!

Veloci--bowling's not bad; I just can't anymore--raptor
 

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