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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.
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> 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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