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To: Neocon who wrote (1811)	11/18/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 3246

Are we mixing definitions of culture and entertainment? Culture, or cultus means refinement and learning, urbanity and good taste. It also means the folkways of a people. I don't think the different meanings are opposed to one another. Champions of the former meaning seek improvement of the human mind and spirit. T.S. Eliot suggests that high culture consists of a mingling of manners, aesthetic attainment, and intellectual attainment. Eliot goes on to say that a healthy culture is represented at its higher levels by a class or body of persons of remarkable intelligence and taste, leaders in mind and conscience. To borrow a phrase from Edmund Burke, these are the men and women who have been reared in "the unbought grace of life." You, Neo are such a person. As such you have a responsibility as thread guardian to see to it that frivolous and degrading people are kept at bay. It is an Atlas-like task. If you tire of sustaining, let me know and I will assist in the sifting process. Now, if you gotta have a rocker, why in bloody hell is Hendrix not on the list?

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