Nick,
This reflects the sad state of the US psyche.
To generations past "buy" or "buy assembled" would not even be considered.
Their first reaction to a need was to make something from what materials
they had on hand. Clearly this is anti-consumerism and not politically
correct these days.
Today the answer to everything is to buy. Making anything has become
lost. Too bad, there is a lot of knowledge and satisfaction to be
gained by making stuff.
Also the present generation blogs everything. I have mixed feelings on
this. It depends upon the quality of the blog and whether or not it has
been done 100's of times before. My general impression of blogs is that
they are Internet Pollution. Same for 95% of Youtube.
Like all generalizations this one is false sometimes.
I do know almost all advertising $$ is spent targeting 15-40 year olds.
This is because those outside this range don't buy much. Perhaps it is
the 40+ category that "wear it out, use it up, do without or make it"
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 3/13/2013 14:02, Nick Palomba wrote:
Elecraft K3 Build Continuing Reflection Point
Ironically Building the Elecraft K3 has let me to reflect. This K3 project
is special to me and has drawn some interesting questions. I have been asked
by several people including friends and coworkers and some outside my family
what I did on my vacation days and when I tried to explain that I was
working on building a Ham Radio Elecraft K3 which I knew they would have
no idea about the brand but I always take shot at it.
The reaction has been staggering so you are building something that is
taking days if not weeks to do that you could have purchased all put
together and ready to use by someone else. On top of that you are setting up
camera and blogging about it. What a waste of time seems to be the
consensus.
http://nicktoday.com/elecraft-k3-build-continuing-reflection-point-page-6/
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