[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[Bob Weigel]

Harry Bissell Jr wrote:

>ok let's get mathematical.  ;^P
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>what evidence do I present ???
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>The TV guide. LOOK at what people watch on TV.
>There's precious little 'Discovery Channel' and
>an awful lot of "Fear Factor"
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>c'mon. these people are amused by watching other
>people dangle from high places, and eat bugs. What
>could be dumber ???
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Dumber would be...watching people who are not hot babes dressed in hot 
pants and bra basically eating bugs according to the larger portion of 
the audience I'd think :)  I don't have a TV except for mind improving 
video's that people occasionally recommend...like Chris Farley's "Almost 
Heros" that we caught 75% of the other day before we finally figured out 
"It's...just.......getting worse!!! No...Hope of...redeeming movie....at 
this...POINT!"   One of the last people on earth I trust recommended 
that movie too.  What a shame. :-)
  Anyway I'm yet to be convinced that much of anything on TV these days 
is more than silly starting with the news.  AT SOME POINT the supposedly 
'smarter' people have to get a vision and make good programming. But 
it's turned WAY toward the side of watching polls to see what the ..not 
quite so bright masses want to see.  If you can advertise beer and show 
them a program where girls with no upper body strength try to latch from 
hoop to hoop below a helicopter or fall in the water below.... and you 
make billions doing that one and you only make 10's of thousands off a 
show that details Henry Ford's production facility development....which 
are you going to run? 
    See that's what it all comes down to.  People with authority 
deciding 'Ya know...I really don't want to make a positive difference in 
the world.  The world is a total loss.  I want to deceive them and let 
them pay me indirectly millions of dollars to show them RAW SEWAGE and 
then go build a fort and live in it far away from them.'
     In order for a country not to naturally go downhill, there need to 
be safeguards in media.  Such things actually exist on the books but the 
guardians thereof have chosen to look away and to even rationalize that 
the internet if for some reason outside their jurisdiction as much as 
possible for the last couple decades.
      AND..so naturally in the midst of this kind of climate you will 
see a dumbing down of people (the dumber they are hey the more product 
they buy! dumb dumb dumb 'em down, I dumb 'em down yeaaah .. ooo wiii 
ooo oooo.  )  and a loss of interest in DIY related things, especially 
if a reasonable amount of prosperity still exists.  People will tend to 
buy whatever is fed to them as the latest greatest thing.  A pioneering 
spirit is generated by a culture that inspires children to start 
thinking about great things they can do with their lives.   I used to 
talk to kids about astronomy, electronics and stuff when I'd go to 
people's houses.  Anymore....it's like yesterday.  I'm at these people's 
house and the kids are watching this absolutely worthless movie about 
cross dressers or something.  (ahem..no offense to all the cross 
dressers in the group....but...if someone wants me to chip in on the 
budget for making a movie about how your cross dressing affects your 
SDIY work..uhh count me out :-) )    I haven't changed but overall 
something has changed around me.  People are just a lot less into 
nature/how things work and...a lot more into imagination driven 
non-sense that occupies their time but leaves them with nothing 
trasferrable in the end overall I'd say. -Bob

>Sorry if I've dissed your favorite show.
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>I (otoh) do not watch TV except in passing... meaning
>when I'm passing a TV I ask those who are watching
>"what show is that".  I do not want to be TOTALLY
>ignorant, but it is seldom that I get 'enlightened'
>either.
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>I will refrain from going (specifically)'political'
>but look at some of the news we are expected to
>believe. Obviously, some other people agree with my
>"TV watchers are dumber" hypothesis...
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>I usually spend my time doing synth-diy. Am I less
>dumb than the guy who thinks a thumb is a hook to hold
>on to a beer-can with...  you decide :^P
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>H^) harry
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>--- jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:
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>>>Occam's Razor does not presuppose that one is
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>>correct at all, it merely
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>>>expresses that the simplest explanation is more
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>>likely to be true.  It is
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>>>not an absolute.  That may be a fine distinction,
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>>but it is an important one.
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>>sure, but do you think that "people are pretty dumb
>>as a whole... TV
>>watchers are DUMBER." can be considered as an
>>"explanation" ?
>>If yes, then "Jews are crooks" and "Africans are
>>dirty" should be
>>considered as "explanations" too... And I doubt that
>>anyone on
>>this list would agree with this...
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>>I think you get my point...
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>>So, as I said before, it sounds too simple to be
>>true...
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>>JB
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