</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">i'm new to the list. i think it's really amusing and hip that everyone on this list uses big words and talks about postmodernism a lot. but i'm not really sure that elitists can also be mannerful. elitists can usually be somewhat openminded, although they usually, after careful intellectual appraisal of the situation, decide that they're right. <BR>
Postmodern = wears record collection & too much TV watching on sleeve<BR>
elite= guys who play music hardly anyone wants to hear for a lot of guys who can't get dates. The Simpson's Comicbookstoreman is the poster child for this sort of thing.<BR>
intellectualism= trotting out a bunch of stuff fr books and lectures to justify the above-defined behavior.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">heh... after 5 years in music conservatory as a composition and music technology major, it seems a little superfluous to give me a terms list, but thanks for the thought. :)<BR>
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as for being proud to call myself "one of them" - it was in reference to elitism. and it was a snide, self-affacing joke. <BR>