Hockey and Music

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Jan 23 17:58:33 PST 2002


Ian Murray wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> >>Oh, we won't need professional entertainers - that's so hierarchical
> >>& alienating. We can all entertain ourselves, sitting around the
> >>campfire, strumming our homemade instruments, noshing on the
> >>delicious wild berries we've just gathered, singing nonviolent
> >>folksongs. Paradise, eh?
> >
> >Why are you making fun?
>
> Because I find that sort of thing in the actually existing nonutopian
> world to be largely insufferable. Like the wretched banjo abuse that
> goes on around the campfire at URPE summer camp. It's a foretaste of
> hell, I say.
>

Funny, I've never encountered that "sort of thing" in the nonutopian world except in the de4scriptions of those who like to make fun of the non-existent.

Carrol



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