[ExI] Avoiding Coarseness in our Dialogs

[BillK]

On 5/4/07, Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
>
> BTW Lee, not all hip-hop is violent and/or idiotic.
>
> Most of it is, but then as Theodore Sturgeon famously said, 95% of
> anything is bullshit.
>
> It's not my favorite style of music, but condemning a genre of music
> based on its worst examples is sorta like condemning all orchestral
> music based on elevator Muzak
>
> E.g. buy some CD's by the Roots, that's a fairly intelligent hip-hop band,
> and they actually play real instruments ;-)
>


Well, tie me kangaroo down, sport!
We've got extropians defending rap music!

It's the end of civilization as we know it.


BillK