tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post7889257155011896561..comments2024-03-21T01:01:49.406-04:00Comments on The Phantom Soapbox: New Lefty plan: barbarism is the new cool.The Phantomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10159748429049446398noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-9948475130742191262012-11-22T22:38:28.424-05:002012-11-22T22:38:28.424-05:00This is another gambit in that culture war we'...This is another gambit in that culture war we're loosing. Black people doing potlatch is -cool-, white people doing it is Eeeevile. White people even having money at all is evil.<br /><br />Truth, I never listen to rock any more. I'd grant Allen Bloom the first two themes, the third is kinda meh as far as I can see.<br /><br />I listen to instrumental electronic. Themes are:<br />1)sex<br />2)dancing until you collapse.<br />But its hard to tell because there's no words, it being instrumental and all.<br /><br />Rap music themes are:<br />1)perverted sex<br />2)money<br />3)killing<br />4)using as many swears as possible in every sentence.<br /><br />No doubt Homez would cow on me for that summation, but really like I said in the post it isn't about rap. Its about the love affair with "transgression" that the Lefties all have.<br /><br />How much transgressing can you do before you've destroyed all shared social values and there's nothing to transgress against? At what point does the final transgression become insisting that those previously shared values be respected? When do the squares become the edgy progressive ones because they refuse to bend?<br /><br />Pretty friggin' soon, maybe?<br /><br />These Guardian ASSHOLES seem absolutely determined that we are all going to find out.The Phantomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10159748429049446398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-38484030741732303952012-11-22T21:05:48.000-05:002012-11-22T21:05:48.000-05:00I'd love to listen in on you and Indiana Homez...I'd love to listen in on you and Indiana Homez having this discussion out - the worth of Rap/Hip Hop etc. Beyond that I can only contribute this, fom the late Allen Bloom's <i>The Closing of the American Mind (1987)</i> - about Rock and Roll he wrote: <i>"These are the three great lyrical themes: sex, hate and a smarmy, hypocritical view of brotherly love."</i><br /><br />Well, it interests me.Black Mambanoreply@blogger.com