tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post7379681349775356772..comments2023-10-06T01:45:50.515-07:00Comments on Above The Borderline: A glimpse at libertarian hell...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-42384694157212763362007-02-14T18:35:00.000-08:002007-02-14T18:35:00.000-08:00Cato:Evidently, all your data points point down hi...Cato:<BR/><BR/>Evidently, all your data points point down hill. I am sure there is hot sex in the Amish communities, under those plain black dresses. Ditto for those Muslim women... <BR/><BR/>Maybe you are talking about the commercial variety of common denominator. If I paid attention to who wins the Grammy, I am sure I have a few CDs from recent Grammy winners. However, they would be listened in the smaller print in the bluegrass or old-time or world music categories -- possibly polka.<BR/><BR/>It is interesting that Cato would view this as sinking to the lowest common denominator. The beer industry looked like it was going to consolidate into all Budweiser not too long ago. There are naysayers in every era and charlatans too. Predictors of the future are rarely on the mark. Ours is a herd mentality and history has a long line of examples of those who stray from the herd and eventually pull the herd their way through creative imitative, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-23217341076064861782007-02-14T14:57:00.000-08:002007-02-14T14:57:00.000-08:00Cato:Were these brilliant men you mention products...Cato:<BR/><BR/>Were these brilliant men you mention products of their society or rebels against it? I think there will always be genius that is not understood in the culture it dwells in. <BR/>Surprisingly though, in general I agree with you on the general direction we are headed as a society, but I'll bet we disagree on who's to blame. My villain would be Pop Culture which has commoditized <BR/>the banal. Just look at this Anna Nicholle Smith crap. Hours of news time on a no-talent nobody. Someone said she was famous for being famous. If she had a talent that would be it, to use the fame making machinery to her advantage. <BR/>Now do you see this kind of crap on Public (Government) television. Of course not. This is the epitome of free market consumerism, selling the stories of the miseries of others for commercial gain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-51859640980833548142007-02-14T08:39:00.000-08:002007-02-14T08:39:00.000-08:00Least common denominator = no Einstein, no Mozart,...Least common denominator = no Einstein, no Mozart, no Jefferson, no movers of the world. Terribly, miserably equal in potential is the doom of civilization. The least common denominator would be the last place any person would want humanity to strive for. At least, any person that had any love of humanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-9544878171526919662007-02-13T18:31:00.000-08:002007-02-13T18:31:00.000-08:00Cato:We could be headed for the least common denom...Cato:<BR/><BR/>We could be headed for the least common denominator, but that might be were the melting pot leads. It's like a stew. The longer it cooks, the more the components breakdown and blend with the other ingredients and the harder in gets to tell the carrotts from the taters.<BR/><BR/>My experience is that the more the stew boils down, the better it tastes. Time and societital evolution will tell.<BR/><BR/>Player Piano is my favorite Vonnegut book. I like others, but have been drawn back to Player Piano and its discription of automatation and the impact on society.JPNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475179293123980607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-74221911349342009652007-02-13T13:04:00.000-08:002007-02-13T13:04:00.000-08:00I read that short story long ago -- It would be my...I read that short story long ago -- It would be my hell if there was such a place. The least common denominator is where we are headed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com