I don’t know any assumptions I made about your other than I thought you left because I couldn’t get to you user page.

As for your ideas about radio works, you are wrong. That isn’t a personal attack- that is an attack on false information you hold to be true. You can take personal offense to it, but that is pointless. I am sorry if you took personal offense, but perhaps you should look at the facts that I have presented. There is no semantics and I only cite references because I alone do not have credibility, they do, they are the specialists and they can say it better than I, in plain English no less. Just because someone is educated doesn’t mean they aren’t speaking English. If someone doesn’t understand, that means they should take the time to educate themselves.

Songs on the radio are not judged by their merit- perhaps by those who listen to the radio- but the process by what is chosen to be played is based on a record exec’s decision of what themes/image they want to sell. Plain and simple. They give money to radio dj’s and the deal is sealed. This is why there are sooo many free giveaways that radio programs have and the reason why you can listen to a station and hear the same few songs throughout the day. There is no such thing as requests anymore- just the illusion of it. If you would have listened to that media matters show, you would have understood.

I think you are very noble and I respect your opinion that if we uphold some type of value- like anti-commercialism, then we should stay true to that. I would hope that is a true statement that you hold true in your life. But I might ask you- what type of shoes are you wearing, what type of car do you drive, where do you go and find music, etc, etc.

People make mistakes and it is sometimes up to others to allow us to see our mistakes, for them to be pointed out to us. We should not be hostile to such love, we should accept it and analyse it.

And as I have tried to lay out- the world isn’t black and white- it is very much grey and colorful and we need to look at each situation differently. I am under the impression that the pumpkins have a larger scope of the world in mind related to commercialism where as you think they are sell outs. We differ on this, but I might also ask- why are you here then? I would guess that you are not totally sure of yourself about this one. The pumpkins themes are rather adverse to the message of consumerism- and I am pretty sure Billy isn’t that materialistic. Sure, if you had the opportunity to support yourself by doing something you love, would you do it? Would you feel safe with a certain amount of power and money? Yes. We all would. I just think this antimocity people have for them isn’t necessarily directed at the pumpkins, but at our capitalistic society. At the injustices we see and think are wrong.

we, afterall, are only human. And since people are not born benevolent we must be dragged through the mud in order to see our own reflection in the things we dislike about society as a whole. We must go to that ZERO level to understand what must be changed. This is why I think having Zero in this video game is important. The video game realm is very scary and very disillusioned with society. Perhaps they will learn a lesson by having the pumpkins injected in their life somehow, after all- the pumpkins have save many of our lives.

About relying on the music- just listen to it, it’s there.