Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug wrote about my signature line: "People have never been more poor and still we keep hearing about how the economy, this abstract entity, is doing better than ever, and while the rich are building summer houses they are also building ghettos for the rest of us." - - --Anonymous > Anonymous - commie or socialist? I don't know what their political affiliation is Doug, not that it really matters; you can still be a capitalist and say these kinds of things. Some would even say it's realism. Be well, Gary ____________________________________________________________________ "Now, given that kind of time span, it's just not easy to think of Ned Lud as a technophobic crazy. No doubt what people admired and mythologized him for was the vigor and single- mindedness of his assault. But the words "fit of insane rage" are third-hand and at least 68 years after the event. And Ned Lud's anger was not directed at the machines, not exactly. I like to think of it more as the controlled, martial-arts type anger of the dedicated Badass." Thomas Pynchon Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? The New York Times Book Review, 28 October 1984 OO [_]<| Gary Elshaw /|\ Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ ____________________________________________________________________ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html