Yet Another Post Which Mentions Laugh Tracks

Here is a partial list of things which I don't like because they tell me how to think about and react to any number of various experiences, events, or feelings.

• Travel books.
• Reading movie reviews before seeing the movie. (They're really fun to read afterwards, to compare your tastes to those of the columnist. I picked this up from Chuck Klosterman, but I don't remember where he wrote it.)
• Going to Poland to see concentration camps.
• Scoreboards at basketball/baseball games that tell the fans to make noise.
• Yeshivot.
• Laugh tracks.
  
• That certain type of rabbi who devotes his life to telling young adults how to think about and react to any number of various experiences, events, or feelings.
• Advertisements.

On second thought, I don't dislike advertisements. I think they're interesting/amusing. Interesting/amusing so long as you realize what they're out to accomplish. I suppose the same could be applied to the rabbi category also.

Update: Vonnegut knows it's all about respecting the reader.