09-23-2008, 03:14 AM
$tevie wrote:
People love to say that, but they are talking about people they have never met, and will never meet because they are phantoms.
I live and work in an extremely "elitist" community of artists and musicians and bohemians and gays, and we do not sit around discussing diversity or coffee. We talk about the same things anyone else talks about, including old TV shows. The difference is, we realize that not everyone who is different is being different just to impress a bunch of strangers somewhere in the midwest that we don't even care about. In fact, we aren't even different. We just "are".
People love to say that, but like most, they tend to cluster in like-minded groups who share the same tastes, values, and political affiliations. I'm not sure where you got the idea about someone trying to impress someone in another region, or that flesh-and-blood people are mere "phantoms" because they're not in the same room with you.
$tevie wrote: Why are you so worried about people that you don't know? It's a waste of your time and brain cells. Fsck'em if they don't like what you like -- don't sit around worrying about it.
This is insightful, coming from someone who, like the rest of us, enjoys wasting time typing thoughts and opinions in a silly website like this, but can then tell others what they should or shouldn't be "worried" about, or how they should or shouldn't spend their recreational time, whether it's sitting down, sitting around, or standing up. Yeah, man, we get that you didn't like the website or the article, you're welcome to like or dislike it as you wish, but when you pretend it's all beneath your dignity, it's hardly convincing.
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