"and that kind of sneering is just stupid. Live and let live."
Sneering at the examples I gave a fairly common - they have even eveolved their own vocabulary for doing so.
It seems such behaviour only 'brings down the wrath of god' it's applied to "my particular taste in music" - double standards or what?
There is very little argument of why pop music should be beyond reproach - my own points, that it is manipulated by a profit-making industry, that it is loud to the point of health damaging and that it dominated our media at the expense of all other forms, has been largely ignored.
Instead, we have "how dare you insult my music"
If I were in any way cynical;, I would take that as a sign of deep insecurity - but that's me.
Jim Carroll