Posts by Sacha
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Meant to be a Youtube link, doesn't seem to have worked so let's try the local version:
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Couldn't resist, being a Friday and all - "rah rah rah, we're going to smash the oicks"
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He was more interested in cleaning the egg off of his jacket than answering my question
Classic!
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the post-war German government publicly recanted the Nazis beliefs about Jewish people, but they kept on with the declared Nazi attitude to homosexuals until the 1950s
And does anyone have a date when they relinquished eugenics? We remember the state victimisation of jews, gays and even gypsies - but forget the hundreds of thousands of disabled Germans who were also rounded up and slaughtered in service of race purity.
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Funny how I haven't heard anything from the campaigning pollies about how income inequality is known to drive levels of violence in a society.
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Rob, we'd get on better in a pub, I'm sure.
Jon, you clearly haven't heard me sing. And oh I wish I had the time or connections for that sort of research.
Simon, how come you are travelling so much these days (if that's not to intrusive to ask)?
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Ah, but Jon, any likely alternatives would have elicited exactly the shuffling avoidance you mentioned (me included). Given we were going to be forced to sing something regardless, his coolness lay in choosing a song that everyone actually wanted to be part of. Enthusiastically, like that tune deserves to be sung.
As for the accordian, well... -
Rob, I don't think Keir's comment on the other thread was about you. It seemed like a similar frustration, that's all.
I was addressing what might generally make cultural products different from real property. I wasn't talking about "whether copyright should be infinite". There are others here who know far more than me about that. I respect their expertise and I have enjoyed their contributions.
By all means question an understanding of culture which I acknowledge is more firmly embedded in academic discourses than popular ones, despite a long and robust history of thought. It is "the go" in that sense and provides a much more coherent and relevant explanation of culture than those older approaches which are still part of our intellectual furniture. It's just not the dominant understanding - yet.
I can handle a robust debate with anyone who will listen attentively to what is said and not feel afraid of asking for clarification when they need it. That goes for me too. I take my part in any conversation seriously (perhaps too much so at times), but I sure don't think I'm right all the time. I have a lot to learn and I enjoy hearing other perspectives.
However, what kind of response do you really expect when instead you blithely dismiss stuff?:
"you've put forward an idea, a hypothesis , one that hasn't been agreed with, hence not adequately raising a valid difference at all."
Try that in a pub conversation and see how far you get. I'll admit that "don't make me laugh" might have been a better response from me, and perhaps over a beer that's what would have happened. Anyway I'm really over talking about this and hogging bandwidth. Let's move on.
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Culture has it already, by default. Culture is not something separate.
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My own Counting the Beat story - imagine a packed school assembly with hundreds of teens enthusiastically belting out that song. We had a way cool music teacher..
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