Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, you make a very good point. I can't speak for Peter's paper, but our local, 3 days a week, paper today was about 20% news and 80% advertising. Very little of value to me except for the obits, where I keep up to date on the passing of acquaintances. If I need information, it is but a search away on the internet. And, like you, I am not reluctant to use it. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 3/29/2015 1:24 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > I recommend caution when using catch all phrases like "dumbing down." > > I definitely see the the internet, and accompanying technology, making it > easier than ever to Create; books; music; conceptual art across all > mediums and and including new mediums and media. > > The smart and intelligent have incredible resources for researching and > finding information on virtually any subject: health, history, literature, > poetry, music, film, visual art of any sort, including photography. > > Certainly we can also point to a glut of dumb shit; but that has always > been the case. > > Thanks to the internet, and many on this very list, I was able to meet > with my urologist, for the first time, with a wide and deep knowledge of > terminology, tests, treatments, meanings of numbers, and all of the > procedures surrounding an Enlarged Prostate (BPH) and Prostate CA. I don't > consider that a "coarsening and dumbing down of our culture." On the > contrary I consider it empowering. > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Mar 29, 2015, at 2:05 AM, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at > gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks, George. I do wish the things I care about weren't go down the >> drain >> quite as fast as they seem to be sometimes. But between the Internet >> making >> it impossible to do most creative things except for free, and >> the coarsening and general dumbing down of our culture > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >