Jack's obscurantisms

It's different for everyone, Jim. The thing I hate about folk is the religiosity that underlies a very conservative orthodox mindset convinced that what they are doing is somehow right and superior with respect of the Popular Culture it wilfully demonises along with the class it appeals to, those same ordinary folk who dared pass on their so-called Folk Heritage in favour of TVs, radios, cereal heating, painkillers, dentistry and the other pollutants of modern culture that are anathema to Folk Purity, or the grubby innocent purity of the folk whose work is only vindicated by the likes of you plundering it for posterity. Like you said earlier that the working class are mere passive participants in a culture they longer create, and yet which is a thousand times more meaningful to their lives than their so-called Folk ever was - otherwise, why reject in favour of the other thing? And yet, the experience of musical & cultural creativity of the so-called Ordinary Classes remains more vital than ever it was as we exchange drudgery for leisure in which listening to music can be a damn sight more rewarding than singing it yourself.