Just to keep things clear, I'm an American and was deeply affected by September 11. And I still think Americans are ethnocentrists who think the world revolves around them and everything must therefore be in reference to them.
This card didn't make it into my soldier tribal Commander deck because of its high cost. I found it strange that such a weak card comes from such an overpowered block.
A wonderful little primer about how effed up English is is Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue. I recommend it for all the grammar purists. I'm not a grammar purist; I know that grammar bows to usage. It's why we call language one's "mother tongue". But having said that, we must, for the sake of clear communication, have rules that are agreed upon by the majority of people. Now, those rules can change (like, for example, the Oxford comma), but we still need rules. And if people agree on changing the rule, we can change it, as long as we replace the old rule with a new rule most people agree on. Communication is the key here.
One of the beauties of music is that it's always evolving; genres borrow from one another, blend styles and sounds, and no one knows what awesome sound is going to come out of it all. We're all in a grand experiment of musical expression. This is, in my opinion, the best time to be alive for music. There are no limits; genre lines are becoming blurred to the point where "genre" is almost a meaningless distinction. I listen to music that is one part rock, one part snythpop, one part electronica, one part freak folk, one part whatever. It all blends together. As I tell my students (I teach classes on rock n roll history), the history of popular music since the 40s is a strawberry banana milkshake. Strawberries are delicious. Bananas are delicious. Milk is good, too. But when you put them all in the blender and press blend, the milkshake you get is amazing. Everything's in there, augmenting every other taste. That's what music does, and that's why rock will never die. Even hipsters who only listen to post-rock still have to, by the name of the genre itself, reference rock.
Please be careful of short posts that can be construed as trolling. It's okay to question cultural sensitivities, but do it more constructively. - Jay13x
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Infraction issued for flaming staff. ~Duxx
Please be careful of short posts that can be construed as trolling. It's okay to question cultural sensitivities, but do it more constructively. - Jay13x