From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 10:06:42 MST
> ...If I was searching for Mozart-like music and found an item which
> I *knew* was a computer replication, I would not buy it on the basis
> of its having no originality or creative impetus.
This is an interesting psychological phenomenon I've always wondered
about: why is it that we often value something that is labor-inefficient
more than the equal or superior-quality item that isn't? To value
"real" Hendrix over a quality imitation is just snobbery, as is valuing
a real Rembrandt over an equal-quality forgery. Screwtops make better
wine, but no self-respecting eonophile would be caught dead admitting
that fact. I personally would never use a clip-on tie. Why?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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