RTP-area local music and culture

[chapelhillguitarist AT hotmail.com]

> Well, how you treat people does count for something.  You will find that
> any human community, not just the local music scene, is easier to
> navigate if you don't start from an adversarial position.  I don't know
> about more important, but, yes, it is important.  Insulting people's
> intelligence is a proven way not to persuade them of your point of view.
>
> The substance of your argument, however, above and beyond the way you
> choose to present it, is, as others have pointed, myopic and narrow,
> since you seem to be incapable of understanding or acknowledging that
> intelligent, reasonable people might make individual choices that differ
> from your own regarding their music consumption.  In both form and
> substance your argument is immature and unreasonable, and your
> participation has turned a reasonable discussion among mature adults
> into something else entirely.
>
> Chris

Words on a bullentin board /forum are just words.  People who like to
divine or interpret the emotional content of those words cause
misunderstandings.  People who are literal have no use for emotional
divination regarding written words because it is plain to literal
people that words are meant to be taken LITERALLY.

You argument can also be considered myopic.  You seem to allude to
people that disagree with you as immature or somehow lacking mature
adult traits.  Au Contraire. There is no way to judge what is
'reasonable'  or 'immature'  because those terms are relative.  What
may seem 'unreasonable'  or 'immature'  to you may seem 'reasonable'
or 'mature'  to someone else.

But feel free to continue to try articulating your real 'feelings'.