^ It's not mockery.
It's an illustration of how some would quite naturally find certain assumptions - for instance about the ever so life-dependently important "genre adherence" - unnaturally strange and peculiar yet still have that position "explained" through an utterly meaningless accusation and/or allegation of "elitism".
And it's by definition not "trolling" either; the thread in question here, for example, has lived its very own life. What happened in your thread was comments as to your basic assumption. "Trolling" is purposely misreading the intent and content of what others write. Questioning whether or not Scooby-Doo would qualify as horror did NOT call for allegations of "elitism" - any more than questioning whether Heart could be understood as "prog" or "industrial" or "avant garde" would be.
This is an internet discussion forum. Clinging to a trench of shelter from the eternal threat of personal offense has little next to nothing to do with it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
This was already adressed in my previous post. So perhaps you didn't misread? Maybe you just didn't understand? So let's take it again: In what way does questioning an assumption of whether Heart are (possibly) "prog" constitute elitism? Please answer this meticulously through elaboration.
BTW, I contributed to your thread by at least pointing to a member of the band in question there, this after being labelled an elitist after commenting with one single word on another post. What has been your contribution to this one - except for expressing your personal indignation and thus rendering the entire thread about "you - yourself"?
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Your contributions in that thread were condescending....Others posted in that thread -- some even made sport of me in it --- I laughed with them: they were at least respectful enough to keep everything confined to that thread....but mocking by way of parody thread crosses a line of disrespect and, ironically, rather elitist
It was a legitimate question posted in the "OT" portion of PE...... perhaps to somebody on a steady diet of zeuhl, the question of Heart being Prog or Not may seem vacuous, but not everybody has the same immersion into music as another person does----- There are folks out there just getting into Prog, others that prefer their music on the poppy side, and even more still that think Prog begins and ends with Rush ( I actually know a person like this) and many of these folks pop by PE every day in which that question carries a degree of legitamacy and relevency --- and your response was a parody thread (way to represent! ).....I sincerely hope you arent arrogant enough to believe that all folks see all things music exactly as you do from your perspective
My contribution in that thread was not condescending - your immediate reaction to that *one word* on the other hand confirmed a long-since held prejudice and perception of such. One *single* word! The fact that you evidently find that *one word* so devastatingly dramatic as to leave your own thread and jump at the allegedly "parodic" counterpart to turn that one into a thread about yourself and how arrogant and lacking in perspective your apparent adversary must be for pointing at a casus breach - well, that again only confirms it. People have laughed in this thread too, you know.
And go easy on the thumbs-up; they make for cheap rhetoric. And you know it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Peppermint Patty was definitely a lesbian. Marcy, on the other hand, was just experimenting. Just a LUG.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
If Peppermint Patty had a crush on Charlie Brown then why was she always giving him such a hard time?
Oh ok. I guess I got my peanuts gang mixed up.
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