From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 01:12:33 MDT
Technotranscendence
>
> I don't think it has to do with a generational thing. Read enough
> history and you'll become cynical too. For example, read Thucydides.
> He definitely has an agenda and you can see it in almost each page of
> his great work.
>
> Someone recently said on the radio, commenting on his childhood in the
> 1950s, that the times weren't better. He was just younger
> and that, in
> itself, was a good thing for him. Other than that -- and he was a
> conservative commentator, so I expected him to praise the 1950s -- he
> did not like them. (Notably, he did not say what time he did
> like...:)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Dan
I don't see 'unhealthy cynicism' in the kids, although you could argue
they'd have good reason for it. Along with green grass and blue sky there's
a natural expectation high noise, encoded content in a media system that
stretches sensory input globally. I can see the difference over time that
they can't, that's all. Personally I regard the media of my childhood as
absolute crap: The media itself was a child.
My favourite time? The good old days are permanently as *now* as I can make
it! I regard throwing an anchor out some place as a benchmark of 'life's
best of' as a bit of a liability.
Colin
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