Dave Huth wrote: > He didn't get it and couldn't understand why any of this made any sense > beyond a small > curiosity or geeky fetish. After 30 minutes of instant messaging i realized > that he simply > likes TV. He's fine with it the way it is. He was fine with the public > discourse around the > election last year. He doesn't _want_ to join the conversation. in his words, > "I just want to > go to work, make my car payments" (yes it is an SUV) "and watch my Desperate > Housewives."
I'm guessing this guy does not use the internet... Does he read? Listen to talk radio? I'm not trying to insult his intelligence, in fact the "go to work" statement makes me thing that the guy works his butt off (SUV payment!) and when he isn't working, he wants to chill out and relax, not create things, and that's fine. Many (most?) people don't want to spend their little time creating things, they just want to consume. (Is this more so in the US than elsewhere?) I remember someone, I think it was Jello Biafra, saying how he admired people who went to work at some crappy job 40 hours a week, and made music at night and on the weekend more than 'professional musicians' because they were putting up with all the crap, and working like heck to pay they bills and *still* had the energy to do what they loved doing. I'd like to think many of us here are like that, making video because we love to do it. I know I put in 50 hrs a week working, and it would be easy to just sit back and consume, but I can't do it. I am motivated to create and connect with people and their ideas... I can't *not* do that. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
