I heard somewherethat the members of the Swedish group ABBA couldn’t speak English (to this day I don’t know whether this was true), so I figured they were entirely a corporate construct, and always swithched off their music. Years later, I find I actually like it.
I never actually heard an Andrew Dice Clay routine, but I’d certainly heard OF them – they were mysogynistic(sp?), offensive, objectivized women. Years later (thank Jebus for HBO) I learned something his critics forgot to mention, he was funny.
This is a good thread. I know there are things in my life that apply to the title, but I can’t remember them right now.
I think I spent the first 17 years of my life as a person with right-wing views. And then over the space of about 2 years every viewpoint shifted to the left.
Does that indicate that right-wing views are immature? It’s nice to think so, but I am farrrrrr too politically naive to say for sure.
A quote attributed to Winston Churchill would be appropriate here. I’m recalling it from memory, so my wording might differ slightly from the original quote.
Many long years ago, I used to call myself a liberal, in spite of even then thinking a lot of left-wing ideas goofy. Jimmy Carter was the last Domecratic presidential candidate I voted for (although I have voted for the occasional Dem in State and local elections).
Now I’m pretty much of the atheist right.
I think the attribution of the above quote to Churchill has been put through the wringer here before.
It’s been through the wringer, and not just on this board. Some posters at “The World’s Largest Literary Cafe” have discussed the origin and wording of the original quote. Reading their posts prompted me to edit my post so that the attribution was stated as commonplace but not definitive.