Feeling slightly more charitable this morning after my morning stroll through the deserted village. A few points to ponder before I pack up and get on my way myself; I rather fancy emigrating to Australia...

As I had to say to Jim Moray on the Sidders thread, S., "fascism" is opposed to democracy and socialism and, thus, I am opposed to it.   

You are a fascist in that you believe in one resolute authority (i.e. your own) in which every point contradicts the actual human reality of the situation. You see your ideal as being right whilst everyone else is wrong. There is nothing remotely democratic or socialist about this - on the contrary - thus you are, in truth, a Fascist who stamps his jack-booted Walkabout ignorance on the face of all human truth, culture, beauty & spirituality.

English folk who wish to perform more than the tune may venture into English classical music - with it's use of harmony and other more-sophisticated techniques.

All Classical Music is the consequence of musical developments that took place in cathedrals, churches, royal courts and universities throughout Europe since the Middle Ages. English Classical Music is but part of these very non-English influences and continues to be so to this day. If you accept an English Classical Music, you must also accept an English Jazz, an English Pop, and an English Rock.

Jazz, rock, and pop are American genres that have been copied by citizens of the above nations you mention - often to the detriment of their own trad forms and, thus, our multicultural world.

American Culture is a dynamic cross-fertilisation of the European and the African wherein new forms were created and fed back to their mother countries where they were further enhanced. To call Jazz, Rock and Pop American is to miss the point of 20th century popular musical history which is, in fact, Global, with many of the more significant innovations taking place outside America. And as for such things being detrimental to so-called trad-forms, even by the time the Bright Young Things of the 1920s were jitter-bugging to the Jazz Age, such trad. forms were long dead, as far as they were ever alive at all. Folk Music is a revivalist fantasy that was never Our Own Good Culture, thus it remains the irrelevance that is today. But hardly the wonder cultural fascists such as yourself latch onto it, WAV - tainting its quaint anachronistic charm with your vile racist philosophies. Oh, and the baby boomer Folk Revival, Folk Clubs and all was inspired by what was happening in America. It is no coincidence that Mudcat and The Digital Tradition are American.

In this way, nationalism with conquest is bad, but nationalism with eco-travel and fair-trade is good for humanity. (For more on this you may like to check my Messages.

You are mired in your nonsensical repetitions and rhetoric; you have made a prisoner of yourself, hemmed in by such Messages that are racist, fascistic, misanthropic, and just plain WRONG WRONG WRONG - as you've been told, over and over and over... You're a lost cause, WAV. This time I really do give up. Let me know when you've binned the lot, and then we might have something to work with.

S O'P