[NetBehaviour] thinking about Lichty's comments
Alan Sondheim
sondheim at panix.com
Wed Sep 5 06:07:38 CEST 2007
which really hit home. But also I worry - in my life, not anyone else's -
about nostalgia. I'm teaching film and distribution/media/alternative/
digital/bandwidth systems are changing at such a high rate of speed - it's
better I think to work with what is here and now and a month forward;
otherwise one is trapped in a history that's increasingly depressing as
the world totters towards greater and greater suffering.
Instead of thinking, well, this is what the lists were, it's maybe more
productive, again speaking for myself, to think, what are the available
technologies now, what offers the greatest hope of communication, communi-
ty, culture interest? This isn't to abandon the past, but not to create
the 'generation' thing. Some of my students in their beginning 20s can't
keep up - it's not so much generational as attitudinal.
I keep thinking, we've got a short time on the planet, why not explore
whatever we don't know and keep going that way? Lots of people are along
for the ride!
Alan, sleeping over at the Brown faculty office
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