On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> I am not quite sure what you are trying to tell me by
> saying to be careful what I wish for, followed by an
> excerpt from the transcript from "Do the right thing"
> film. That it is OK for some people to break the norms
> of civlised behavior?
No, just that your alleged norms of civilized behavior boil down to "Shut the fuck up", to which the only sensible, civilized reply is, "Fuck you."
Sorry--I misspoke. I meant to say, "FUCK YOU!"
> As a point of clarification, I see noise producing
> behavior mainly as the male juvenile contumacy thing -
> limited mainly to young and immature males of all
> ethnic backgrounds.
Displaying a remarkable amount of bigotry here, you are deaf to what you say below:
> noise producing gizmos - from emergency vehicles, to
> trucks and buses, to lawn mowers, and to ubiquitous
> alarms of all imaginable kinds.
Silencers such as yourself are fundamentally authoritarian.
> For example, in most
> African cultures young people are forbidden to speak
> in the presence of elders, unless spoken to.
That sort of authoritarianism needs flushed down the shitter. I reject it.
> One thing that you
> notice when you travel overseas is how much quieter
> overseas places tend to be
If you want quiet, move to the suburbs, like all the other selfish pricks. I like my cities loud.