On 20 Jun, 2007, at 10:51 PM, sartesian wrote:
Be that as it may, Mr. Meyers self-congratulatory gloating about the
coming end of industrial society, where I guess he will beat his
keyboard into a plowshare...
What of the opposite side? The name-calling ("Luddite", "romantic",
"Malthusian", etc) that accompanies the usual Western Leftist
dismissal of all manners of living and organisation that threaten the
necessary assumptions (industrialisation, selfishness, etc) of their
theory? It matters little how technology-addicted I am for it is a
matter of vanity (regarding self) or contempt (regarding others) to
think that their desires might differ from mine.
--ravi
