OFF: Truth (oh no) and Shock Rock

[Carl E. Anderson]

On ons 3 dec 1997 21.08 -0500 "Ron Jennings" <sprawl at STARLINX.COM> wrote:
> john lennon's statement was sarcasm, and fairly accurate to boot. MOST
of
> those  people who burned beatles albums would gleefully have skipped
church or
> prayer  to attend a concert- prior to the statement. the statement was
> attacked so  vehementlyby the kind of shit-minded dolts who usually pull
the
> strings, that a
> mob situation developed. again, all the shock-shit is just silliness.
the
> people who get worked up over this kind of thing need some REAL problems
> injected into their worlds.

     And therein lies the danger.  Get enough sheep all moving in the same
direction and the _will_ trample you--no matter how fluffy and cute they
were a moment before ...

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/