Quothe Tony Duell, from writings of Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 01:30:16AM +0100:
[quoting ?]
> > You basically hit at the heart of the matter. The reality is that US
> > society on the whole does not do hacking at a hardware level anymore
Alas, that's very true; few people seen interested in building or repairing
things, they just want to "buy new" (which is often cheap, or expensive,
rubbish).
> It's certainly true in the UK. Almost nobody makes _anything_ any more.
> If you do, you're eccentric....
Of course, eccentricity is a good thing...
> > Over the past two decades, we have gone from a nation of builders to a
> > nation of users. We throw away perfectly good items because perhaps a cap
> > blew or whatever it is was "just too old". This is the work of Capitalism
>
> You may be happy with this, I most certainly am not...
No rational, intelligent, person would be happy with that. It's the
work of greed, sloth and aversity to intellectial activities.
> > and Marketing. It used to be that we encouraged people to learn and do.
>
> This worries me. It worries me a lot. People should be encouraged to
> learn. If nobody understands the current stuff properly, who is going to
> ever improve it, for example?
A few years ago, I heard a school teacher exclaim "I'm not an
intellectual."
> Any suggestions as to how these trends can be reversed?
For a start, let's send idiot-boy Bush to China in exchange for what's
left of the old computers that we've sent over there as scrap. On
second thought, the Chinese would consider that an unfair trade and
reject it.
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