Pariotism, Hendrix

[joanna bujes]

At 03:14 PM 06/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>It depends what you mean by the word "understand."  If your mean
>"epiphenomenal familiarity" then I profess profound ignorance, indeed.  In
>emergency situations I cope with it by asking my wife for help.  But if you
>mean "linking material causes and effects" being insulated from the noise
>and babbling is actually an advantage - it helps me to concentrate.  I
>think one can better understand the American culture by studying class
>structure, land use patterns, demography, geography or distribution of
>ownership than by being inundated by the products generated by the
>entertainment industry.

Well and good, but you still need to go over to a friend's house and watch 
one of those "reality" cop shows which shows that the poor are poor because 
they're stupid.

Joanna