On 2/9/2010 11:44 AM, John Leeke wrote:
> Of course, The Thing is right at the bottom of the Fast Cheap Good 
> triangle, Fast things Cheap.
>
> If you want to understand why you want The Thing watch the 4-part BBC 
> series Century of Self. 
John,

It is interesting to me that you mention this documentary as I watched 
it in entirety a week or so ago. I agree that it is an experience to 
recommend. I found it interesting though I also feel that the underlying 
thesis was too simple of a narrative for me to accept it as all 
encompassing. Granted that we are always dealing with a world saturated 
with a media that works to create a sense of need where there may have 
never been one before, we do have the free will to shut the noise off 
and go do something else. For example instead of a Freudian psychology 
we can follow Jung or Reich.

I also worry that these sorts of expositions work to dissuade people 
from engaging themselves in 'marketing' or 'profit', as if to pursue 
their economic survival, as individuals and in community, is to live in 
a State of Sin. I see it analogous to an assumption that saws and 
chisels must be bad and as tools should never be used because the only 
people that we ever saw to use them with any success were Evil.

In another direction, if we want to pursue the conservation and 
restoration of old windows then we need to learn how to use the tools 
that the new-window manufacturers use, and that includes to learn to 
work with capital, as well as to learn to work with webinars, as well as 
to be able to keep the voices of histo presto alive. Since I am not 
particularly good at any of this I think we need to learn to work together.

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