5 Mar
2006
5 Mar
'06
2:10 p.m.
apt-get upgrade culture
Spoken like a hard-core hacker. :)
certainly i read this list and work with linux audio
tools while my
roommates watch people shoot at each other on the tv. i don't think
i'm any better than those guys - in fact, i wish i were as easily
amused.
I don't think it's an issue of whose 'better' than who - to me it's
more a
matter of a demonstrated willingness to grow, change and adapt.
Americans - for many reasons lanas mentioned - just tend to be insular w/re
to the rest of the world.
This isn't healthy from an evolutionary standpoint, and if continued, will
lead to certain societal decline and diminishing global influence and
significance.
i must take the canonized developer's attitude on
this. don't like
our culture? submit a bug report, or learn to code a patch.
Precisely what we are trying to do in our own unique fashion.
I think it really starts at home - reforming yourself first, and focusing
on how you raise your own children.
If we each tend our own gardens, then I think the rest will take care of
itself.
best antidote i've seen so far is the emergence of
freely available
media production tools, as are refined and developed in forums such as
this one.
I abolutely agree.
yours in america, proud land of harry partch and kurt
vonnegut,
And let's not leave out - 'the Blues', perhaps America's most precious
gift
to the planet.
- Maluvia