Don't
even watch the super bowl.
What? You don't like the men's
channel?
REH
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Subject: RE: Slightly extended (was Re:
[Futurework] David Ricardo, Ca vema n Trade vs. Modern Trade
It
seems to be the equivalent of mud wrestling.
arthur
Keith,
What is it you don't like about
Survivor?
For that matter, Ed, what is it you don't
like?
Harry
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At 23:11 10/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Harry, don't even mention the show 'Survivor' to me. I see
it as absolute American crap, like the "Stench of America".
There's nothing in it that even remotely bears any resemblance of the
reality of hunters and gatherers. Ed My God, yes! You really do
disappoint me sometimes, Harry. There are many things on TV that one looks
at for 5 minutes and then never ever want to see it again. Crap is hardly
the word. Many TV shows reflect a society that has become disembowelled
with consumerism. (Now there's a word I use a lot. But "consumerism"
doesn't have ad hominem overtones because we are all consumers and we are
all taken in to a greater or lesser extent. We need a society in which
consumer goods are on tap but not on top.)
Keith
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Harry
Pollard
- To: 'Ed Weick' ; 'Keith Hudson'
- Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:15 PM
- Subject: RE: Slightly extended (was Re: [Futurework] David
Ricardo, Cavema n Trade vs. Modern Trade
- Ed,
- Another good discussion.
- I see little network television, but one I try to see
is Survivor. In it, people are voted out of the tribe. Those that
remain try to "survive" until the final episode when the winner gets
$1 million. (Remember the $64,000 question?)
- One member was a good catcher of fish and they
enjoyed the food he supplied. Yet, he was also so good generally that
the others felt they would never win if he remained in the
tribe.
- So he was voted off. Yet, the worries of the others
centered on the lack of fish that would follow his dismissal. The
crucial factor was that there was only a week or two
remaining.
- If the tribe had looked to a longer life, I'm sure
they would never have let him go. His "hunter/gatherer" abilities were
too good.
- Interesting.
- Harry
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