I didn't mean that we should not like pop music... Geez, is Mbo a little sensitive? I just mean that it takes a certain amount of brains to appreciate a music and a culture that have so little, if anything, to do with the mainstream of commercial culture... All I meant was that the "average" kiddie-pop fan has no interest in the world around them to any great degree... it's because the typical bubblegum garbage they are fed on the radio is designed to meet those "right here, right now, gimme" urges... just like an action figure from a movie... "Be the first on your BLOCK"... Folk is a culture where it MATTERS that 600 years ago, 'ol Someone McSomebody floated over the sea... If you are offended by the idea that folk takes brains and MOST (I said MOST) pop does not, try asking yourself why you care about McSomebody the sailor from eons ago but yet the top selling single of 1982 was... (and NO FAIR ANSWERING IF YOU WERE AROUND THEN) my point is that there's an obvious reason why folkies have lasted... it takes a litte more upstairs to be a folkie... sorry, just my opinion, but I believe it does.

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