http://www.erelevant.net/2010/02/16/living-without-future-the-decay-of-value-and-meaning-in-the-media-age/ A blog about electronic marketing, culture, and life on the digital frontier. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.erelevant.net/2010/02/16/living-without-future-the-decay-of-value-and-meaning-in-the-media-age/comment-page-1/#comment-90641 sam scoville Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:47:37 +0000 http://www.erelevant.net/?p=107#comment-90641 Nostalgia on the one hand; eutopia on the other. Between the two it doesn't seem to matter what the technology provides. "Neither logic nor sermons convince" says Whitman. And tech doesn't either--hi or low. Not to say it has no impact--but Attitude and Mind-Set seem to be on a level of logical type "higher" than pocket watch and I-pad sophistication. SEEM to be, I said. Everybody's always whining and griping and complaining (me: I whine and gripe and complain about the whiner's etc.) Grass greener always on the other side of the fence, no matter the tech? "I wouldn't walk across the street to save the world," said Thoreau. Was be being humble or arrogant? Nostalgia on the one hand; eutopia on the other. Between the two it doesn’t seem to matter what
the technology provides. “Neither logic nor sermons convince” says Whitman. And tech doesn’t either–hi or low. Not to say it has no impact–but Attitude and
Mind-Set seem to be on a level of logical type “higher” than pocket watch and I-pad sophistication. SEEM to be, I said. Everybody’s always whining and
griping and complaining (me: I whine and gripe and complain about the whiner’s etc.) Grass greener
always on the other side of the fence, no matter
the tech? “I wouldn’t walk across the street to save the world,” said Thoreau. Was be being humble or arrogant?

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