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Originally Posted by roachboy
first you do some handwaving in the direction of "everyone's an artist now tra la" in that kind of inverted socialism way that retro-thinking folk seem to take some perverse glee in doing these days, then when you're asked "ok so if everyone's an artist now tra la how do you propose they live?"
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This is getting to the point of being ridiculous from my point of view.
People make a living by selling what they do!
What don't you understand about that???
NASCAR folks have no problem getting sponsors and people to spend hundrds, even thousands of dollar to see a race during a weekend. Why can't your favorite "art", do the same??? Are they too snobbish to get companies and people to sponsor what they do???
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and you respond with some rightwing bromides about "snobby east coast liberals" and nascar, the reasonable assumption, ace, is that you're not talking about anything.
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You want to pretend there is not a social divide in this country that plays in the political arena? East coast, inside the beltway, over-educated, liberal v. Southern "cling to guns and religion", "pick-up truck driving", NASCAR loving conservative, is very measurable. Even our exchanges are rooted in this divide with a few subtle differences in some of the characteristics. So my question is, why do you persist on pretense? Why do you want things to be different than they actually are? Why do you fail to see what is real, obvious and so easy to be seen?
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then when you try to clear it up, it turns out that such point as you were trying to make was just as disengenuous as i thought from the start.
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I doubt most reading this, see it as you do. Sure, I may be a bit more extreme than some - but I think they get it.