Originally Posted by Janszoon

I don't generally hear it from pretentious people, I feel like I usually hear it from people who are not very knowledgeable about what is really included under the umbrella of "everything". If you were to ask them what some of their favorite Chinese classical songs were, I'm sure they'd acknowledge that what they mean is "every kind of music that is popular in the circles I travel in".

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.