[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[Harry Bissell Jr]

Bonjour JB.

Ca va ?

(sorry but my French lessons did not cover using
the international character sets :^)

Don't get me wrong.  I was just suggesting that the
synth-diy community might consist of individuals who
are more capable of accepting / processing expanded
programming than the general population at large.

translation: people are pretty dumb as a whole... TV
watchers are DUMBER.

A look at the majority channels will prove my point.

H^) harry



--- jbv <jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> Harry,
> 
> > LOL time to go WayOT   ;^P
> >
> > I do not completely agree with your take on the
> > ethnic / foreign channels.
> >
> > They exist mostly to serve those who have those
> > ethnic / foreign backgrounds and are living in
> > a foreign (to them) country).
> >
> > For those viewers, ethno-centricity is EXACTLY
> > the point.
> 
> Yes, you're right : most "ethnic folks" (I REALLY
> HATE
> that word) are very ethno-centric, but nevertheless
> I
> don't see any reason why we shouldn't have a look
> at those programs to try to understand their way of
> thinking the world they live in...
> Besides, those programs aren't only limlited to news
> from home : they also feature sophisticated comments
> on international events, featuring different point
> of
> views than those on CNN or ABC...
> It's also often interesting to learn how those
> "ethnic"
> folks view other cultures including your own : for
> instance, a few months ago, on a french channel,
> there were excerpts of a program from a TV channel
> from Israel covering recent anti-semitic violences
> in
> western Europe, and it was very "surprising" : it
> looked like Jews were at war with the rest of the
> population...
> 
> >
> >
> > Its only for brave souls (and few) who can try to
> > mine the information from them.  I will admit that
> > it is a rare Indian movie that I can watch (unless
> it
> > is subtitled or dubbed, most aren't).
> >
> > On the music front it IS different... as a
> 'universal
> > language' almost anyone could benefit...
> >
> > But in most cases, the ethnic folks are just
> watching
> > old reruns, just like everyone else. YAWN....
> 
> so what ? what might be an old rerun for them can
> also
> be a novelty for you, if you never saw that movie
> before...
> I once traveled in Morocco and the local TV was
> playing
> old egyptian movies featuring Farid El-Atrach... It
> was
> awesome... And frankly, I don't mind watching reruns
> of movies by Preminger, Von Stroheim, Fritz Lang,
> Godard, etc etc
> 
> JB
> 
>