'00s to be chewed over

[koganbot]

Supposing I were to write a Decade's End essay, what would you like it to be about?

The correct answer is "Taylor Swift," of course, but you should make other suggestions as well.

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Re: a topic for the naughties

[koganbot]

1. There's an example right here on this thread regarding the word "poptimists," and if someone were to say "Frank, I'm not getting your quick comments in regard to 'boy's worlds' and 'high romanticism in pop form' etc." and I were to refuse to elaborate, that would be another example - though to elicit the most useful response from me, the comment or question would need to be specific in its puzzlement, e.g., "Sober-sides adventure from some old TV shows I never heard of is at a distance from 'My Boyfriend's Back' how? 'If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation' seems plenty dramatic to me, after all, even if it fails the sobriety test."

And of course if we're looking for examples, our friend SR is a feast of false issues and refusals to understand and failures to follow-through, though down that quagmire wise men might well refuse to go. As regards MS and FK, I wonder why it took so long for you to elaborate on your comments about "rockism" and "influence," given that once you did elaborate it became quickly clear what was on your mind. And the Mark Sinker model of AoI - even a bare sketch of such - to replace the obviously inadequate Harold Bloom version and to be applied to rockwrite has never been seen by my eyes, though my strong critique of Bloom is still there for your use, should you decide to use it. Also my (to my eyes) clear and simple, even simplistic, critique of arguments against transcendence - or more pointedly, my critique of arguments against gods or transcendental signifieds etc. as conversation stoppers - has never gotten a direct and clear response from you or Alex T., either along the lines of "No, we're actually not making an argument against transcendent conversation stoppers, what we're doing is ________" or "actually, arguments against transcendence are relevant to reanimating conversations, and this is how and here's an example" (my simple critique being about relevance: that the discussion of transcendence is itself the wrong conversation, since Transcendent Conversation Stoppers aren't what cause actual good conversations to actually peter out, and the lack of such Stoppers has nothing to do with why bad conversations keep rolling along).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

^^^Total conversation stopper

[koganbot]

(I keep planning a post on unintended conversation stoppers and exclusions.)