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Eric - 2004-02-25 19:40:58 Elitism has little to do with the ability to judge what has actual quality. Elitism usually has to do with money, fashion, and power. Example A: The elite of Ann Arbor buy houses that are ill-proportioned and ugly. Have you seen the monstrosities springing up in subs between AA & Chelsea? Ugly. Example B: The concept of "gender" is all the rage these days on campus, but it's pretty much pure horseshit. A bankrupt concept, but woe betide the scholar who wishes to join the intellectual elite but who swims against the tide. The fact is that among my pitifully few talents I have the ability to judge what is and what is not good writing. That's all. Sorry. Try again.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-25 20:08:57 U-M's campus, I mean, and from the women's studies departments and similar intellectual sinkholes...I don't hear the same crap coming out of EMU.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric - 2004-02-25 20:31:05 John Grisham and Dan Brown may be horrible authors. I don't know. I don't read their books and I've never read a review in Newsweek. I just find it odd that in your desire to tout Ypsi as a great alternative to Ann Arbor, you see the need to try and take pot-shots at them. So a lot of people in Ann Arbor like to read the "Da Vinci Code." The same thing can be said about the working class of Ypsilanti. Are Ypsilantians dullards too? Or because we don't think of ourselves as the Athens of the Midwest, are we excused for our choice of intellectually depleted literature? I just don't see the need to tear down one community in order to build up another. It makes Ypsi look like we have a self-esteem problem when it comes to Ann Arbor.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-25 20:45:29 You're taking me way too seriously. The Ypsi-AA "rivalry" is a time-honored sport is all. Don't overthink it. For the record, I have plenty of Grishams and Tylers in my library for when I'm in that kind of mood, and when in that mood I find them absorbing to a point. But I bought Updike's "Rabbit Remembered" today at Afterwords, and some other gems, and that's what I really look forward to reading. You will not win any arguments with me about books. As a hermit scholar, I've read more books than any person alive. Period. Sorry. Try again.* * * * * * * * * * * * Leighton - 2004-02-26 11:26:13 The smarter pioneers left AA first when they forsaw McMansioned and Starbuckstruck breeders taking over...oops too late. Nothing wrong with being blue collar and elitist. Any hipster worth his salt had a mesh trucker hat last year. Pabst is the wine of choice to the East of AA. * * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-02-27 19:07:58 Some things are of a better quality than others. Pointing that out doesn't make one elitist. But speaking in absurdly sweeping generalities and not as an attack to Eric, I have noticed that the PC crew is too busy raising their self-esteem and polishing their lifestyle to apply their brains to a meaty book, and is therefore threatened by people smart enough to think independently and critically. Aww. Tough. * * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |