Chris Hornbeck wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:07:02 -0500, "Soundhaspriority"
wrote:
The world changes, and we don't like it.
In fact, there are lots of things I don't like about the new world: bad
literature, bad music, and mp3 players 
But we have to pick our battles.
Regardless of what you write, or what I read and listen to, the world will
just keep moving further and further away from what we wish for.
I must strongly disagree. The (modern) world is a human construct, a
product of engineering, and so it is a choice. Please, please, don't
give up. Never give up. It's the only correct Human choice. Anything
less is a literary conceit, and Morally Ambiguous, or worse, if such
exists. And bull****.
Yes, people make machines. And that means people should control machines,
and NOT the other way around. Too many people forget that.
One of the great things about the modern world is that there are so many
different generations of technology that have been made, and there is no
reason you cannot pick and choose between them. If you want to heat your
house with a woodstove, grow all your own food, and use a 2" Ampex, there
is nothing preventing you from doing so.
If you don't like bad literature, bad music, or mp3 players, you don't
have to use them. You can't necessarily prevent anyone else from using
them, but you can take solace in the fact that they are ephemeral and will
soon be gone and replaced with something else.
The Modern World must, by definition, look pretty bad to anybody,
in any age or era, with half a hope for their childrens' futures,
because it's ALWAYS desperate. Always. Always. Always.
People in general are like that, but that doesn't mean that you have to be
that way personally. That's the marvelous part about being human.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."