Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Marc, Sure, you say this here, but will you allow such deviation from YOUR charter on YOUR Rollei list ? ;-) All kidding aside, why do you all think that the LUG is such a politically oriented (and very verbose) photography group ? Is there another photography oriented list, bboard, newsgroup that comes even close in this respect ? Is it because we are too idle ? Are politically passioned photographers (pro & amateur) more predisposed to use Leica ? Does Leica, because of its high price, cult status, photographic legacy, functionality attract both the yuppy/collector/materialist and the photojournalist/socially oriented/communist/anarchist, which are often diametrically opposite on the political spectrum and thus causes more sparks than usual ? - - Phong - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Come on guys >I must agree with Oddmund on this. As Thucydides has Pericles say, "we do >not say that the man who takes no interest in politics minds his own >business: we say he has no business here at all". > >In other words, all life is political. I cannot conceive of a truly >apolitical life. This is bound to ooze over into our photography. > >Marc > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >