Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by late (A) on November 30, 2001 at 08:09:55

In Reply to: Up, up and away! posted by Audiophilander on November 30, 2001 at 06:58:32:

Hi Auph,
for me, it happened like this.....I was young, trying to be an intellectual.....when one day I began a highly prasied work of laht..rah..tchurrrr. It began with a detailed description of a new garbage truck; ran the whole page. It occurred to me, that I didn't like that, that I did not have to like that. Much later I ran across the idea of class distinction. The problem for the upper middles is that school bus drivers have essentially the same things they do. So in their desperate need to display class distinction; they form a market for goods that that are distinctive. Ofttimes they are less desirable,
or uglier, or marginally effective. If they can maintain the distinction, that is enough. I extended this thought to include caste distinctions. The great unwashed mob of Homer Simpsons (that would be me) enjoys a scope of entertainment that is breathtaking. If you look beyond scifi; there is a wealth of goodies. To offer one example, I like detective fiction; the best gives you the delicious opportunity to get a little taste of life on the Bayou (The Confederate Dead in the Electric Mist) or among the High Plains Indians. I just love the way Raymond Chandler uses the language.Anyway, back to my sordid tale. As the mob, and it's tastes, have expanded; the English Professors, their caste if you will, have retreated to maintain their distinctiveness. What is left is a
sorry excuse for writing.