First thing I haven’t got a clue what
you’re talking about!
Secondly I’m not preaching to you, I’m
voicing my opinion in response to IPLODS rule type sentiment which was voiced
when I said I prefer P.C’s over Mac’s.
Thirdly if you want an IPOD, of what concern
is that to me! Or interest!
Fourthly, many people are probably cheesed
off with the fact that this dialogue is not photographically related and
pertinent to a Rollei list.
Which goes back to my fourth point, if you
want an IPLOD, and you like them spend YOUR money.
After all it is a Rollei list, lets keep
it simple.
Let’s just stick to facts worth.
Marvin.
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT iPod
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Simplicity? Ah yes, poor simplicity keeps having to be recommended to
us silly people who enjoy a gadget now and then.
I run an anachronistic business and get my customers from the
ranks of those searching for beauty and simplicity - I should know a few things
about simplicity - yet not one day in "the" life is simple.
I had a truck driver in the shop waiting for me to sign a BoL and he
saw the antique presses on one side and the G5 on the other, and asked jokingly
if "Those machines weren't afraid of being in the room with that
machine?" It's the new one that lets the old ones work still. I'd have no
business printing the way my grandfather would have if it were not for the
complexity plugged into the world through the wall.
Listening to Bach while washing up a press at the end of the day
enriches my life. That it comes from a very small device that does not clutter
my already cluttered ink storage cabinet, simplifies my life.
Simplicity is a good goal to have, and a virtue to champion. But
preaching simplicity is another matter. You haven't the clout, none of us do,
to clearly define it especially not through proscription or derision. The
Taliban banned shaving - hey life is simpler without razors - please don't say
you have a beard - right?
So your disinterest in or distaste for the iPod is your own concern,
but the simplicity of the lives of those around you is not. What encourages
people to tune or plug in or out, on or off, is circumstance, education, moral
fiber, character, strength, intelligence, security, upbringing, genetics,
opportunity - almost anything but the gadgets. Modern life has its issues, and
the iPod may very well be a symbol of the best and worst of it, but you could
say that for the internal combustion engine (in its time), or the gun, or the
clipper ship, printing, agriculture, bronze... how far back should we go before
we find good and appropriate simplicity?
Life has always been difficult and complicated. Several thousands of
years of endless preaching down to the easily distracted hasn't done one thing
to lessen the load.
Solution? There is none, simplicity is an ideal, a distraction even, not
a reality.
As mentioned my concern
is not just about the technology packed into the IPLODS, it’s about the
quality they add or detract from our lives. I think carrying an “80
gig” hard drive will ensure that we have our entire music collections on
tap. But at the same time it will encourage people to be “plugged
in”, as we are sold the fact that our every minute should be productive.
The net result is more time being plugged in and less time
”thinking” .add to this the mobile telephone and the blackberry
plus the internet and the Rollei group !!!, and you arrive at what I see as
dangerous, and that is information overload.
Solution! simplicity is
often better.
Just my multi taskings
worth.
