I think we are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. The question that really needs an answer is not "Were things better 30 years ago?" rather.. the question that needs answered is: "Is life truly better because of all the technology changes, the social changes, the automotive changes, the work place changes, and the family life changes that we presently have?" And:
> "Do we work less and actually produce and earn more [in real value], do >> our children actually learn how to survive and thrive in life, and are we >> safer, richer, more fulfilled in life, than our ancestors of 30 years ago >> [or 50 years ago]?" >> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM Peter Frederick via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Lol, I said nearly thirty years ago that desktop publishing (and by > extension, social media now) would be the end of civilization. Any idiot > can publish things now -- back when it cost a couple hundred thousand > dollars to get something in print, the trash got filtered out. If someone > wanted to crank out their screed on a mimeograph, everyone knew it was > probably junk. > > Now it's hard to tell the difference, and there is NO filter on anything. > We are drowning in garbage. > > The good thing is that this has happened before, multiple times, and once > people figure out they are being fed garbage they tend to wise up a little. > > After all, we had rampant yellow journalism around the turn of the last > century, and now newspapers are considered reliable sources. It's just > gonna take a while with social media -- we will get there, but not soon. > > Me, I'm about done with the noise. Had to upgrade to a "smart" phone > because Verizon is planning to end support for 3G/1x, and my old phone was > getting unreliable (and had trouble with "smart" text). I hate it. > Endless "upgrades" for junk I don't use and will never use, hard to type on > (my thumbs are bigger than the chicklet sized letters on the keypad), > stupid touch screen is never working right, and the damned buttons are > almost impossible to use without accidentally pushing the wrong one. > > To say nothing of the ridiculous GLASS front and back and the super > fragile OLED display that fails when you drop the phone (because the > connections come apart in the wiring). > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
