On Jan 9, 2010, at 1:47 PM, b_s-wilk <[email protected]> wrote:
Tom Sharpe | The New Mexican
Posted: Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 1/8/10
A Santa Fe man who says he suffers from electromagnetic sensitivity is
suing his next-door neighbor for refusing to turn off her cell phone and
other electronic devices...[He] cannot stay in a hotel, because hotels and
motels all employ wi-fi connections, which trigger a severe illness," says
the request for a preliminary injunction...
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Story/Wi-Fi-foe-sues-neighbor-for-using-electronics
The first parallel which came to mind (well, MY mind, at any rate)
was that of Moslem extremists who "claim," due to whatever "sensitivity"
comes from that particular form of narrow-mindedness, to be somehow
inherently intolerant of not just all other religions, but also of any
cultural or technological progress since, quite literally, the Dark Ages.
What, in any meaningful terms, is the existential or philosophical
difference between this New Mexican Luddite claiming, without any empirical
evidence to support the claim, that his neighbor's use of photons in this
manner is harshing the Luddite's mellow, and a Taliban mullah claiming that
"modern" or "Western" values, like freedom, liberty and democracy, which
give people the ability to worship, learn, and achieve as they please
(rather than as the mullah pleases for them), harshes his? I think both the
mullah and the Luddite are saying something like this: "If I cannot bring
myself to accept it, given my narrow, subjective, and utterly arbitrary
criteria, then I forbid you to accept it, as well."
Please, somebody, tell me, so I can get my minimum daily adult
requirement of irony, that the Luddite has either a blog or a Facebook page.
Bob
I'm on the case, from outer space!
OK
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