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Subject: Re: from jms: too damned much stuff
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:56:05 +0000 (UTC)
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

Ali Hopkins wrote:
>  wrote in message
> news:1116042082.156643.48310@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>  I've nothing to add to the  general debate, but wanted to comment on
the
> following, hence the snippage:
>
> > First, a general note, which is that there's a peculiarly British
thing
> > that flares into existence whenever somebody is seen making any
kind of
> > money from something.  A work of art is fine and good as long as
nobody
> > makes anything...the moment it becomes popular, well, then it's
trash
> > or devalued.  I've seen it again and again in the media there, so
this
> > doesn't surprise me to hear it here.  It's a class thing, I think.
> >
> 
>
> > Again, it's that British class system thing rearing its annoying
head.
> >
>
> >So artists should suffer and be paid nothing so that their value
> >remains?  You're not making any sense.  Even for a Brit.
>
> I don't know why you felt it necessary to insult all of us Brits, but
I find
> it deeply offensive. I've no problem with you insulting  individual
posters,
> Usenet is like that. But this was utterly uncalled for.
>
> You *had* a lot of fans over here. I suspect you may have just
alienated and
> lost a fair few, and I include myself in that.
>
> Ali

Are you saying the class system/attitude doesn't exist?

Or that it was rude of me to point it out?

Because the former has been chronicled for decades by writers and
social scientists and commentators...many of them also British, by the
by.

jms