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Thread #20830 Message #220192
Posted By: Abby Sale
29-Apr-00 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Hidden agendas within music scholarship
Subject: RE: Hidden agendas within music scholarship
Dick: I think you're confusing hidden agenda with bias. I know you feel strongly that most collecters heavily biased their selections of songs to collect by their own, unique, definition of what "folk" is and proved this by "selective attention." I agree. But to my mind there is a wild difference. This is bias, or intellectual dishonesty or even fraud. But a hidden agenda is a sinister device for moving people to action in a subtle fashion. It uses the advertised agenda to sucker people in but moves their opinions or actions to aid some secret thing the suckrers aren't even aware of. This was mentioned by Rick at the top and especially by Little Neophyte. We're not talking about opinionated or biased or feet of clay, but a purposeful con job.
Again, are there examples of a real hidden agenda?