On Dec 7, 3:52*am, dsi1 > wrote:

> We could get enslaved by the environment that computers and networks
> and broadband create, I suppose. All this hasn't played out but it
> will be interesting to see the changes that will ooccurring our
> culture and society in just a few years.
>
> I'm more of a traditionalist so I'm enslaved by things that I own and
> I have that guitar player sickness - guitar accqusition syndrome. I
> only own 7 at the moment so it's just a mild case. Some guys got it
> just awful bad...



The enslavement aspect, yes, it's true. A lot of times when
someone resists certain new trends, they are called old fashioned or
told, "Hey, no one is forcing you to buy it!" But that is not
entirely true, as you said yourself. We can become enslaved even by
those things we ourselves do not buy. We can over time be forced to
use things we don't want to use when the things those new things
replace are lost forever. It's hard to find a decent useful and
practical pair of inexpensive sneakers anymore thanks to the updated
bullshit technology of running and walking shoes. I am not a fulltime
resistor. I can go with new things. I pick and choose. But I'm not
rushing out to buy every new thing that comes along, even if I were to
hit the lottery tomorrow. Oh yeah, I really need to know what the
temperature is in St. Louis - give me that iphone baby.

APPS - a lutely,
TJ