EAllusion wrote:
You could go much darker very quickly. Country music is similar to hip hop in that it is heavily influenced and consumed by people touched by poverty.
Its also heavily influenced and consumed by people touched by vast wealth and fame, and is consumed heavily by both white and black middle class youth.
Pull the lever again, E. It was all lemons that time.
That's why those themes come up a lot.
Poverty (a relative concept, especially in America) is actually the least of the problems faced by many blacks living in the the inner city environments the Left has created since the mid-20th century.
But in both cases, there's more to their genre than the extensive references to misogyny or alcohol use or celebration of being an outlaw you can easily find. The quality of music and writing varies as do the types of narratives.
No kidding, genius. Boy, what would we do without sanctimonious liberals to be our conscience and out guide.
Where would we be?
Here's a wonderful country song Droopy no doubt identifies with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHAFmFsb9XMAlso, it's a dude singing about threatening violence against those he disagrees with politically. It's ironically quite anti-American in its attitudes. Does that earn Droopy's dehumanizing "Morlock" label? Of course not. Again, he probably identifies with it.
Firstly, I've never heard this song, nor am I ever likely to listen to it. Secondly, as best I can tell, its almost solely the Left that threatens and engages in violence against its political opponents. Thirdly, here's some stuff I identify with. This is probably far too complex for you, E., but its an introduction to much of what I've been listening to since I was 19:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9xOomYyLI8Some of Holdworth's best work was with Tony William's Lifetime, in the early seventies.
Nobody that I know of was playing like this at that time.
Listen to the Mahavishnu Orchestra's
The Inner Mounting Flame album (Youtube has the entire thing online).
That is part of the signature jazz fusion style of the seventies that set the benchmark for much of what came afterword (as did the earlier Miles Davis, for whom John McLaughlin played before forming The Mahavishnu Orchestra). I also like straight ahead and avant garde forms of jazz, especially the more improvisational styles.
Droopy doesn't have a problem with celebrating redneck culture
CFR (you've now also gone, with so many others in here, well over the line of intellectual and ethical credibility, so to save yourself your going to have to pull a really big rabbit out of your dunce cap).
even though the parallels to what he's using such ugly language towards abound because why? I don't think the answer is all that difficult to figure out.
In point of fact, if you and your Morlockean comrades here were at all well read, you would understand that the inner city welfare underclass culture that I and many other conservatives (including black conservatives) ceaselessly criticize is, in a very substantial sociocultural and historical sense,
black redneck culture.http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Li ... 1594031436White "redneck" culture is very similar, in core, defining characteristics, to black inner city underclass culture, even though different in style and expression in certain salient ways.
Your endless strawman smearing of my motives and character out of whole cloth are all the evidence anyone needs to conclude that you came into this discussion on fumes at the outset. But that is, of course, to be expected, given both the forum and the ideological make-up of the interlocutors.
