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Thread #142512   Message #3285711
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
06-Jan-12 - 04:31 AM
Thread Name: 'Purist - a pejorative?
Subject: RE: 'Purist - a pejorative?
We've been here very recently, but I forget exactly where that was. I remember pointing out that all the self-styled Purists I've met were grudgeful dilettantes (at best) with little knowledge and very evident issues both personal & political, but always reactionary, with views that ran contrary to the nature of Folk of which they had precious little actual understanding or working knowledge. These were Railway Modellers who would most certainly not recognise a real train if they saw one; cretinous cultural autists for whom Folk is a means to a particular sort of ghastly tyranny & self-delusion. On the other hand, those many people I do know who may be deservedly called Purist would, I think, both hesistate to use the term themselves and be resentful of being so called. I know I would; after all, the more one delves, so murkier the waters become...