Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/02

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Subject: Cargo Cult: was Re: [Leica] word of the day
From: Dante Stella <dstella1@ameritech.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:31:58 -0500

I would suggest that the endless speculation around the M7 and the thousands
of speculative predictions and pictures (including the Leica-H, which is the
oldest M7 prediction), bear more than a passing resemblance to Melanesean
cargo cults of the 1950s.  In other words, build a site to it and it will
come.

read this carefully and draw your own conclusions:

http://www.themightyorgan.com/travel_cargo.html

Other aspects of the cargo cult - such as the disconnect between work and
reward (here, rewarding yourself with a $2,000 camera when you don't take
pictures) - and the fetishism with whatever comes out of the product
pipeline (here it can Leica, Konica, Cosina, etc) also seem strangely
appropriate for the LUG...

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Dante Stella
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