> It is just weird, iyam, for someone to claim the
> intellectual/moral/emotional high ground by insisting that they have somehow
> escaped the effects of this alienation and gotten in touch with that special
> inner self that enjoys these primal pleasures. It implies no one else has
> for one thing - except for some special coterie of leftists (or something).
> To me, it's just the obverse of those who've claimed some access to refined
> sensibilities that would reject McMurty. They too claim that they have
> access to superior aesthetic sensibilities that the unwashed don't have.
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Alienation; another zombie concept cluttering up the clusterfuck.