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In Reply to: RE: 'don't trust themselves'...thank you for reply.... posted by wangmr on November 23, 2014 at 22:29:34
My sense is that believing that humanity is something especially noble that machines can/will infect with their...well inhumanity (of course they can but they needn't) is a form of superstition. Humanism has replaced religion for some, attaching a spirituality to us that, for example, dogs and proposes are supposed to lack. Not to make too big a deal of this, it's mainly just sentimentality. We needn't become or be replaced by our tools, though I'll concede some of us are more susceptible to that than others. All I'm saying is if and where that happens, God is not dying again. I've not heard superstition applied to Luddites before either but that's what it feels like to me. I like it. I also prefer books to Kindles, paint brushes to sprayers, and still write my first drafts of reviews in pencil. I'm just sentimental: I don't attach any special spiritual value to book or writing stick,just prefer 'em. My nineteen-year-old doesn't share my sentiments, nor need he. etc.
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The physical connection to the things you mention are important to how many of us connect, shape and interact with them.
I'd use a pen and quill if the results would be anything resembling cohesively readable.
Kind of surprised you don't do the vinyl thing anymore; it's part of that tactile tradition many don't seem aware of.
Even the keyboard at a computer offers a tactile experience you don't get with current electronic communication devises.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I still do vinyl. Sold 'em all (c. 2000) a long time ago, then heard PQ's vinyl rig in Hove, and went on EBay to buy 'em all back! Dumbest and then smartest thing I ever did. I don't know how much I prefer vinyl to CD's at this point, I just find them somewhat different and then forget it and listen. CD reproduction has come a long way. Yes, a different way but not a bad way.
I'm not in love with the whole ritual of playing LP's though; to me that's a perfect example of sentimentality, a ritual which is nothing more than it is. Sentiment is not a sin, it's just not anything more than what it is.
Google Sven Berkerts, one of the best known contemporary Luddites. He's a very good writer but sentimental at the center. Just reading him helps to understand that state of mind.
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