Thursday, June 10, 2004
have just started reading Douglas Coupland's "hey Nostradamus!". so far so good. in it a girl called Cheryl describes her husband's family.
"his family - churchier than thou -looked down on girls who worked. If I was ever going to get a job, it would only be to annoy them, his parents - his dad mostly. He was a mean, dried out fart who defied charity, and who used religion as a` foil to justify his undesirable character traits. His cheapness became thrift; his lack of curiousity about the world and his contempt for new ideas were called being traditional."
Wondering for how many the term traditionalist is just one big cop out?
"his family - churchier than thou -looked down on girls who worked. If I was ever going to get a job, it would only be to annoy them, his parents - his dad mostly. He was a mean, dried out fart who defied charity, and who used religion as a` foil to justify his undesirable character traits. His cheapness became thrift; his lack of curiousity about the world and his contempt for new ideas were called being traditional."
Wondering for how many the term traditionalist is just one big cop out?
