[lbo-talk] why movies suck

[shag carpet bomb]

At 04:58 PM 11/17/2009, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Gary Mongiovi wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious about the criteria Doug & perhaps others are using to
> > gauge
> > quality.
>
>No one, so far as I know, has ever done an extensive study of this
>tradition, but my rough guess is it has its beginnings in the late
>17th-c  "1700: Scenes from London Life
>A new term had been coined to describe them -- the mob, from mobile
>vulgaris -- used for the first time in the 1690s
.
>
>It's essence is that one shows superiority to the vulgar mob by  what
>one can superciliously sneer at rather than by what one finds admirable.
>The prbolem with the latter is aby approving of any new poem, building,
>or musical composition one becomes vulnerable to the sneers of others
>with even higher standards. It is sort of a race to find more things to
>sneer at than your slightly less agile neighbor.
>
>Carrol

wait! i'm so confused. this was Doug's posish on WBM. Quit sneering and 
find the good things in WBM!

head's spinning -- and not in a good way!