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In the circles that I move in -- which are full of interesting people -- we refer to people that you're calling "sophisticates" as "mundanes."

I don't see why being able to converse about the local sports teams, or the corporate-packaged pap on the radio, or the latest overrated, badly-written novel ("literary" or popular) or movies (blockbuster or Oscar-bound), while waiting to pick up the kids from soccer and go back to your McMansion-wannabe, should be considered "sophisticated."

Thanks, but no. I'll keep my obsessions and my obsessive friends, if you don't mind.

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I get your point, but for me it isn't a matter of needing to be able to "converse on the latest fashions" in different areas, I simply find many of these things interesting, and I don't find any one area to be so interesting that I want to neglect others. I may be a bit deeper than most in knowledge in, say, the Romantic poets or psychedelic music, but not to the exclusion of current novels or jazz. It's all interesting.

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