Donald Clarke wrote:

>An anti-music-in-public-places organization called Pipe Down was making
>some progress in Britain a decade ago, but it would never work in the
>USA.

I've heard of that.  The founder may lurk on this list.  I love the idea.

>If the British are too polite, we Americans are too rude.  Suggest
>to a shopping mall or a supermarket that they turn the "music" off and
>they'll just look at you like you're crazy.

Yes, but often they will accommodate you.  I know. I've done this many
times.

>At the same time that some Americans believe that playing Mozart
>at babies makes them smarter, it will not occur to them that playing
>garbage at everybody all the time makes them stupider.

They have not a clue.

Roger Hecht

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