On 9 Jan 2014, at 17:21, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing that Daniel. > I think that the problem that the XKCD author is highlighting is the > problem of people who, often in an effort to feel better about > themselves, denigrate completely rational choices that other people > have a right to make for themselves. Often, such people are unwilling > (or unable) to consider any other side than the one that they have > chosen to subscribe to.
People who've said that type of thing to me seem to be suggesting that their 'living in the moment' is some sort of poetic experience unavailable to the sort of brutish clod who would soil the moment by taking photographs. Of course, it would be ok to sketch a water-colour, provided you wore a smock. It's some sort of hangover from teenage romanticism. > The photographer in the comic first draws > attention to a completely rational point of view which is the opposite > of the denigrator's, and then (in addition) emphasizes the > inappropriateness (dare we say "stupidity" or "futility"?) of wasting > brain cycles on the value judgments made by others, particularly when > they have minimal to nonexistent impact on anyone else. See also: > codependency > > There. Isn't it much funnier now? > I soiled myself laughing. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
