[Leica] RIP, my newspaper

[Mark Rabiner]

To me it seems pretty obvious but lets just say its my opinion that the
internet is a boom for culture. And I find it absurd the statement that
because of the internet  " it impossible to do most creative things except
for free,"  I wonder who you could substantiate claim like that when the
evidence to the contrary is overwhelming.  I would call the internet a boom
for culture. A boom for getting smart; Being tasteful, informed. Access even
the most obscure information in seconds. My what a nightmare!
I pity the poor people who have to come up with an excuse for being stupid
and tasteless in today's world.
I'd keep typing but instead I'm going to Google/Wiki nineteenth century
cameras I'd heard the centers for making these camera were in Paris and
London but I wanted to find out when it hit the US and NY as in up state NY.
I'm glad I don't have to be spending the day in the library not finding much
of anything on it. The Dewy decimal system was never for me.

I think in today's world its hard to come up with an excuse to be stupid. I
think it takes a rare talent to be out of the loop.

On 3/29/15 2:24 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> 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
> 
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