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Ego
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Ego
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11/27/2003 8:54 pm
You're not supposed to "like it" at all. The Bofatron thing wasn't even about music but only in the way people responded to the purely contingent. It was supposed to be nonsense. If you check out the page it is partially explained. It was a psychology experiment and you'd have to know a whole hell of a lot about the precise kind of psychological theory they were working from to know why "nonsense" was important.

The only thing important about it is that you think it is nonsense and then how you judge it after that. They had a whole box full of hysterical email and whatnot documenting reactions to it.

One would be tempted to think that all reactions to Bofatron would be hostile because it is nonsense but, on the contrary, they found that way more than 50% really liked it with a substantial number of people like you who just thought it was crap. And then there were the extremes (5% on one side and %5 on the other side) who thought Bofatron was (A) the devil himself or (B) a god.

It was all great fun and, like his site says, he's not laughing with you, he's laughing at you. ;)