[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[sammorse at aracnet.com]

I have had some of the same thoughts. I think we are just "getting old".

-Sam

R. D. Davis wrote:

> Quothe Scott Gravenhorst, from writings of Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at
> 06:40:55AM -0700:
> > TV, (yawn).  Amazing how the technology has gotten so awesome and at the same
> > time the content has become progressively more mundane and banal.
> 
> You've noticed that too, eh?  Gone are the days, alas, when music (as
> opposed to irksome noise) and creative videos were broadcast on MTV,
> and when great 'B' movies were shown at night, with names like "Zombie
> Chicks at the Slimeball Bowlarama," and when Doc Dememto and Night
> Flight were on the air... it all seemed to go down-hill fast fairly
> soon after Tipper Gore and other tight-assed nanny-state promoters
> launched an attack on Rock & Roll with their senate "Porn Rock"
> hearings.
> 
> Now, one can't even find the Tom & Jerry, Flintstones or Roadrunner
> cartoons anywhere for a good laugh, and most of the programming
> consists of dramas, cop shows, war moview, sci-fi war movies, paid
> advertisments, religious channels, frequently
> inaccurate/incomplete/biased newscasts, "ethnic" & foreign-language
> channels, etc. (YAWWWWWWNNNN, excuse me) ...for about $60 a month...
> television programming aimed at people who don't know the difference,
> whose bodies and brains are being destroyed by legal psychotropic
> drugs like Prozac, Ritalin, Paxil, etc.  pushed by physicians, the
> pharmaceutical industry, etc. with the support of politicians like
> Bush (and his "New Freedom Initiative") whom the pharmaceutical
> industry back.
> 
> Getting this back on topic, surely all that mind-numbing rubbish has
> some effect on the decine of the elctronics hobby as well as what's
> happening to post-1980's music ... and as far as SDIY, how does
> everyone view it as being affected by new and often meocre to horrid
> music... music with whiny or mindlessly wailing singers, repetitive
> music (due to the use of sequencers?), etc.?
> 
> How does everyone here view how the decline in music quality has
> affected, is affecting, or is about to affect SDIY?
> 
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