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2007-01-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Fred 2007-01-12 13:42|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No pictures?
How the hell am I supposed to digest this article without visual aids?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-12 14:49|| 2007-01-12 14:49|| Front Page Top

#2 50% are below average? Sure (Well not where I grew up of course - whether you want to take that as Lake Wobegonish nostalgia or insolent ethnic pride is up to you) But so what? Peasant != trailer park trash. Proletariat =! lumpenproletariat. Working class people, whether in traditional peasant societies, or in working class communities rooted in traditional peasant societies, can be quite dignified. Yes theyll have their bad girls (usually they dont evaluate the boys the same way - Irish, Jewish, some others being exceptions) but the bad girl is distinctive even WITHIN the working class community. Sure, average people wont keep the book morality, but thats not the same as open crudeness. Hypocrisy the homage, etc etc.
This Kay Hymowitz (a distant relation, no doubt) is onto something I think. Something about dignity, about pride, and hence about privacy. About hierarchies of human relations. What you tell your best pal is less than what you tell your spouse/lover. What you tell your other pal is less than what you tell your best pal. What you tell your aquantaince is less than what you tell your pal, which is less than what you tell a stranger. Now every stranger is your best pal. Does that make your best pal a stranger?
But whats positive is we can learn. Let the Paris Hiltons do what they do, and provide object lessons. We neednt follow their extremes, but we DO need to figure out what the minimum of the technology does to us.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-12 15:09|| 2007-01-12 15:09|| Front Page Top

#3 pardon should be MORE than what you tell a stranger.

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-01-12 15:11|| 2007-01-12 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The pubic wig is so well established that there is a formal name for it? My education had been more circumscribed than I knew. I'm going to try to forget that now, confident that Fred will remember for us both.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-12 15:28|| 2007-01-12 15:28|| Front Page Top

#5 I still think we need a RantBurg Team bowling shirt.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-12 15:45|| 2007-01-12 15:45|| Front Page Top

#6 #4. So that's what LBJ meant when he started a speech with: "My fellow 'Merkins"?

Posted by GK 2007-01-12 17:12|| 2007-01-12 17:12|| Front Page Top

#7 ****loud groan****

(TW, please don't make me have to explain across the teacups why the guys all break out into loud, coarse laughter at the name of that small Far-Eastern terrorist cell who goes by the initials 'MILF')

Just pass me another cup of tea. Milk, one sugar, please.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-01-12 18:03|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-01-12 18:03|| Front Page Top

#8 But so what? Peasant != trailer park trash. Proletariat =! lumpenproletariat. Working class people, whether in traditional peasant societies, or in working class communities rooted in traditional peasant societies, can be quite dignified

Liberalhawk - are you implying that all working class people are all below average intelligence? haha. You need to get out of your little ivory tower more often.

I read Fred's comments of "peasant" to mean the women who were below average intelligence. But then of course, I don't equate income or education level with intelligence as you seem to be doing. Britney and Paris - just your average working class girls, eh?

I thought Fred's analysis was painfully true.

Posted by Glomoque Chavirt4829 2007-01-12 18:29|| 2007-01-12 18:29|| Front Page Top

#9 MILF? That one I do know, Sgt. Mom. Mr. Wife explained that to me a few years ago, although he didn't guffaw about the Moro terrorists. Here's a nice cup of freshly brewed decaffinated Earl Grey (so as not to keep you up tonight), milk and one sugar as you like it, dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-12 22:49|| 2007-01-12 22:49|| Front Page Top

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