Classical music radio fulfills many purposes. One is to allow the feeble-minded to claim there is something in the world to which even they are superior. Here’s an e-mail from May 29, 2009:
From: Carl
E-mail Address: cxxxxxxx@alaska.net
City: big lake
Comments:
too bad everytime i try to listen to you guys on the web all i get is a popup telling me to load a MICROSOFT (E GAD!!!) product the won’t run on my Mac. there are a lot of us out here.
In response, the long suffering J.R. Zufelt replied and patiently provided a link which would allow Carl to run the evil Mircosoft software on his saintly and pristine Mac. Carl’s exact reply is regrettably lost to history but amounted to, “I never point my browser to any Microsoft site. How dare you?!?”
Carl has lofty ambitions! He imagines himself as both wannabe classical music snob and an Apple snob all rolled into one. I sense though that Carl’s real passion isn’t the music. Don’t you?
More than a year has passed since his e-mail and the stock market value of Apple has surpassed that of Microsoft so it is fair to ask how much longer Carl will remain loyal to Apple. Snobs often use failure as ratification for their choices. “It used to be the best but then it become popular,” right Carl?
July 12, 2010 at 1:32 am |
In defense of Carl: I do not think people who prefer classical music – especially KLEF – are therefore snobs. Nor do I think Mac users are snobs. I think of snobs as those who feel superior even though they are not. Those of us who are REALLY superior – including those who listen to KLEF and use MACs (I am institutionally excluded from the second) do not treat the lower classes with disdain. We instead love them and are concerned for their welfare. So there is a difference between being a snob and knowing what is best.
The “snob tell” in Carl’s case is not that he might be interested in classical music nor that he uses a Mac. Carl refuses any and all things not created specifically for a Mac. He prefers to avoid classical music if it’s streamed with anything using MicroSoft. His computer maker isn’t his vendor, it’s his god. –Rick
July 11, 2010 at 1:20 am |
Heh. FYI, I have no problem listening on my Mac. It’s not rocket science.
But Carl no doubt considers you a fallen woman, Teresa : ) –Rick