Darrell Lance Abbott was generous and friendly.
Posted on 12/14/2004 8:40:19 AM PST by Apolitical
Part of the hard work of civilization is teaching young to be able to distinguish between the good and the bad in all aspects of life. If we teach our young children to obey the 10 Commandments and to obey the laws of the land, but don't teach them to realize that Johann Sebastian Bach is superior to Dimebag Abbott, we have failed as parents and mentors. If a person has gone through 12 or 13 years of education and has not developed an appreciation for the greatest artistic achievements of mankind, that education has been an utter failure.
While laissez-faire is the correct approach to economics it has no place in the realm of aesthetics or morality. A confidant civilization imposes its morality and aesthetics on it young people. Yes, you heard it right. We impose. The Rousseauian noble savage is a myth. Left unchecked and untutored the savage will never attain nobility......
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No way was Skid Row better than Pantera...
Oh THAT Bach!
Well...I dispute that statement. J.S. Bach was certainly more influential from a historical perspective, but superiority is a matter of opinion, is it not? Dimebag was certainly one of the best metal guitarists of modern times.
What hateful article. Absolutely hateful, ignorant, and it is a perfect example of what the author was attempting to describe.
Refering to someone as "semi-human" etc...
I hope the author of this piece gets shot by some whack-job just so I can sit back and talk about what a "semi-human, more simian in nature" that the guy is.
Compare apples and oranges much? The truly "superior" at least let an artist's body cool before they start throwing around nonsensical comparisons.
Well, if you overlook the fact he's a pretentious imbecile.
I bet Dimebag was more conservative than the author of this piece. From what his neighbors say, he was great to live next door to in the small town he lived in - helpful, courteous, respectful and considerate.
Can you imagine living next door to the author of this article? Ha! Probably a nightmare.
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I hope the author of this piece gets shot by some whack-job just so I can sit back and talk about what a "semi-human, more simian in nature" that the guy is.
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Really?
That's sad.
Ooh goody. Another ugly cultural elitist, attempting to control what is, and what is not, "true conservativism".
I'd suspect that the percentage of Republicans at the average Damage Plan show is higher than the percentage of Republicans at the average Opera at the Met......
What a dick.
Let's have a field day with this one...
Isn't it? Hey, I wanna be a "Real Conservtive and an example to my children" just like this guy. I mean, I can't be a conservative unless I revel in someone's death, right?
I absoloutely detested the band Pantera. That said, this is the most crass, hatefull articles I have read in a long time.
Art (or whatever you want to call it) is subjective. I don't like Pantera or Bach. I cannot fathom how one could be viewed as "superior" to the other.
And a stagnant, dying society listens only to music written three hundred years earlier.
What a smug, elitist prick.
Yup. I am a die-hard metal fan and a stauch conservative.
You're probably right LOL.
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