Re: What, exactly, is Apple's iPod business model?

In article <13dlhgvnek8kaa6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/1/07 9:15 PM, spinoza1111 wrote:

Yes. What I was trying to express, hyperbolically, was that the set of
watchable films has very small cardinality [...]

This is because film is a social art and usually arrives at lowest
common denominator.

I've always been startled by how the self-appointed representatives of
the common man have so much contempt for the people they claim to be
acting in the interests of.

This never startles me, I'm afraid, Jeff, because like Mr Spinoza they
are all fascists.

Significant numbers of films use Fascism to excite the dull
sensitivies of the audience: cf. the Godfather, and see "Fascinating
Fascism" by Susan Sontag.

[Yup. Your not having read anything or been anywhere makes you less
qualified to speak.

And you know how much dorayme has read or travelled? And just because
we don't read what you read makes us less qualified to speak?

More shooting from the hip from Mr S. He also assumed I hadn't travelled
either, and shot his mouth off in much the same way.

What keeps me reading your posts is your ability to reach ever new
heights of arrogance and self-importance.

It's all about him, isn't it. He doesn't debate or discuss - he
declaims. He harangues the masses and then treats them with contempt.
This is the case whether the listeners are "workers" or the audience at
the Oxford Union Debating Society.

Doubtless anyone unfortunate enough to have him as a teacher would
suffer in a similar fashion. No attempt to discern the abilities of the
audience and tune the discourse to that.

I once bottle-fed a lamb on a farm in Central California. The lamb was
aware of the bottle as a source of something it wanted, but it had no
awareness of me as an entity to interact with.

Mr Spinoza reminds me of that lamb.
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