It's a sad indictment of modern life, although they are talking about the "average American" for a lot of the article, and we all know that the "average American" has the attention span of...sorry...what was I talking about?

I've mentioned snobbery here before, and my remarks were greeted with not derision, but certainly disbelief.  Yes, it appears to be absolutely stupid...to a bunch of people who like classical music.  It's not even a "class thing" like it used to be - top hat and tails and I'm off to the opera because I can afford it, and you can't - mainly because snobbery appears to have crossed class barriers (classless society my arse!) I class myself as working class, when forced to classify myself, but there are people out there who would call me a snob simply for liking music that is perceived as "better" or "posher" than theirs.  I would call it inverted snobbery, and it makes not one jot of difference that my accuser would be, in most situations, from the self-same social class as I am perceived to be from.  Liking classical music identifies me to some idiots as a snob.  It's that simple.  It's not right, and it's not true, and I really wish I had the money to be a proper snob.   

Mind you turnabout is fair play.  How condescending are we for "knowing" that if "they" just listened to it properly (whatever that means) then "they" would love classical music like we do?