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Re: Hoosiers


  >>Where in the world are you guys hiding in Indiana?  Get out of your 
little 
 back woods clique.  Are you guys all in college or something?  What in the 
 hell is NASCAR?  Do they even have that here?  I haven't heard a polka band 
 since 1978 at my catholic aunt's wedding. 

Ack! lighten up man. By the bye, generalizations are a very valid way of 
observing culture. If I was to be specific about every person I've 
encountered here in Indiana I'd have to write you a book. Sociology, 
psychology, history, and a few other ologies make good use of generalizations 
thank you very much. True, they only go so far but they do serve a very 
useful purpose. If one ONLY relied on generalizations to understand the world 
around them then the aforementioned idiocy would ensue of course. 
  I have nothing against people whose lives don't have room for the arts and 
I didn't say they were less intelligent (One of my brothers I mentioned I 
consider far more intelligent than me) but, call me cliquish if you want,  I 
do feel the arts are the fullest embodiment of the way we see and understand 
the world around us. For someone interested in knowing more about the world 
about them outside their own fears and desires art is a priceless tool. My 
observations were just that if there isn't even enough of us around here to 
keep a bookstore going, well,  that's kinda sad. As for the polka comment, it 
was to be HUMOROUS not serious.
 
BTW, never went to college.
 
>>I've been on the list for 2 years...I go to C-stone every year and thought 
 I'd get some intelligent banter on music here...well, suprise, 2 years 
 later...no sign of intelligence anywhere.  You all sound like a bunch of 
 sheltered college students.  Which is why I steer clear of you guys at all 
 the concerts, I hate your narrowminded clique.  
  >>
No comment of this. Nope, not a one.
Well maybe one -- Pffthffthfffth!!!!!!!!

Kevin (just your average run of the mill narrow-minded sheltered 
cliquemeister.)

"books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, 
literature dumb, science crippled, thoughts and specualtion at a standstill. 
Without books, the development of civilization would have been 
impossible...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the 
treasuries of the mind. Books are humanity in print"
Barbara W. Tuchman
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