pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sat 20 sep 03
'minorities'?
Hi Joyce,
Huh?
Like who?
'Beater', Beat, beat-down, Beatnik, and other variants were
well known phrases in the '40s for marginal
(Artistic-hedonistic) poverty, for owning mellow or worn
things, and coupled with aspirant metaphysics, resentments
of the social disappointments and ennui, and thence the
elevation of it's experience and mystique with Music,
Herion, Sex and other emolients as might have included
Buddhism, Poetry and Prose, wearing 'black', writeing in
general, questioning social order, smokeing lots of
Cigarettes, and hanging out in Coffee Houses...
(Actually that sounds kind of familiar...)
However may these entirly proprietary American terms be
claimed now by some so called minority 'group' for their own
personal group-identity abuse needs?
Do tell?
Best wishes!
Phil
Las Vegas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joyce Lee"
Around these parts, "beater" is an offshoot
of an unacceptable term for a specific
minority group. I know those of you using the
term are (I sincerely hope) unaware of such
a connotation, but
whenever we read it, some of us cringe.
Habits are hard to break and when one's
heart is innocent, it's close to impossible
to change. Or so I've heard.... not usually
suffering from an Innocent Heart, I speak
from hearsay.
But for those of you who care about such
things......
Joyce
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