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hi, you clever old
yank! you've found my "about me" page. yeah, you probably won't read
much farther than this because who cares, right? so, basically, i
could write anything here. like that i think the censoring of music
is an absolutely oppressive measure imposed on us by our own
government? or how i think that the white subarban soccermoms and
corporate white males are dominating an industry which, like all
art, is somewhat crap, but, like all art, is just that:
art--the freedom of expression. and it's being stripped away from us
tiny bit by tiny bit. when ideas like affirmative action are
spit at by these people, it gives those same people more power, and
takes it away from those of us who think deeper than "curse words
are bad-- the children must be protected". those same children
really need to be protected from the people who are taking the
open-mindedness away from our society. from thinking like "there's
nothing we can do about the energy crisis, so we're just going to
ignore it and protect our children from hearing artists like rage
against the machine spew out thier anger and frustration with it."
yeah, i know they aren't censoring all
the words, but
when you take away some of them, the power is lost. you might as
well hit somebody with a foam bat when you are really trying to kill
them. not that i indulge violence in any way. i think
words, music and art are a much better way of getting ideas out
there. but how can they ever really get out there if they have bits
and pieces cut out of them because some idiots thinks they're
preventing the next columbine? how can anybody learn that violence
is not the way to settle differences if they are never exposed to
different ways, like music and art?
all i can say is,
thank god the nazis burned books because not censoring them seems to
be the only good thing america has done for our youth lately.
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