Why do people feel the need to make sweeping generaliztions?

[VitaminD]

*salutes* ahoy dereee mateys... batttonn down thar hatches and hoist thar main sailll... look alive ye landlubbers and swab the poop deck or ye shall be walkin de plank and be in davey jones' locker tonight! arrr.

this all reminds me.. I havent seen my favorite skunk lately..

[rockstarfx]

people suck?

[Shane Sanders]

and you can make a mean pirate hat out of one.. arrrrr.

Hopefully not after you've used it!

StarButts

[androidlove]

i've asked ppl to pigeon hole my music so i can better describe it and better position it on soundclick. i got vague answers but no sweeping generalizations

[funky lime]

what is a sweeping generalization and how does it differ from a regular, non-sweeping generalization?

[Voidoid Surrealist]

look alive ye landlubbers and swab the poop deck

How appropriate

[Voidoid Surrealist]

what is a sweeping generalization and how does it differ from a regular, non-sweeping generalization?

Regular generalization: All of your favorite music sucks.

Sweeping generalization: All brooms suck.

[deggy]

Two things I thought I might add here.

#1, yeah, I make sweeping generalizations here all the time. But around here, I usually do it just to try to get people to passionately express another point of view (and this has led me to really learn to appreciate a lot of stuff that I never would have before). The other reason I do it is because I’m ignorant.

#2 – If you’re in a band, and someone asks you what type of music you play, find a genre or two and give a strait answer. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been at a gig and I’ve asked another band “What type of music are you guys?”, then they responded with “I don’t really know. It’s really difficult to describe” and then they ask another band member and that person has no idea either and then the band gets up on stage and they sound like korn or Nickelback or every emo or punk band I’ve ever heard or the Smiths or a Joy division rip-off or something else that’s just so blatantly easy to classify. Why is everyone so gosh darn pretentious (says I the pot to all the kettles out there)?

[Cabinfever]

the power to generalise is one of humanity's great strengths. it is to be praised.

and agree with deggy - so many musos seem to think that their stuff is soo good it shouldn't or even can't be classified. pfffft ! that attitude immediately allows the music to be classified as 'pretentious crap'

[John Vulich]

Because they're all stupid.

[soulkraka]

Because they're all stupid.

friggin valley dwellers lemme tell ya...would you people just secede already!

hehe, what up John?

[1-2-Many]

No one, as of yet, has pointed out the cute little irony nestled neatly within the inital poster's thread title.

[deggy]

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[Cabinfever]

No one, as of yet, has pointed out the cute little irony nestled neatly within the inital poster's thread title.

the original poster pointed it out himself

[McLilith]

Especially about music?

Of course, the real irony of this post is that it's a sweeping generalization.

Generally speaking, people tend to make sweeping generalizations, because precise, tightly focused generaliztions just don't have the same impact.



McLilith