Rage Against the Machine

American Conservative ^ | 1/5/03 | William S. Lind

[HumanaeVitae]

Buchanan's mag is proving to be surprisingly interesting. The best article in the current issue is on the issue of Iraq and cousin-marriage, an article that is unavailable on-line. I disagree with Buchanan's "roll up the drawbridge" philosophy regarding Iraq, but the mag itself is a good read. By the way, there's more than a little I sympathize with in this article...cheers.

[JohnGalt]

The cousin-marriage article was thought provoking but this article was comical, though I enjoyed reading a modern luddite's view.

[HumanaeVitae]

I figured there would be those who objected...no doubt technology has brought us wonders. But, who is the slave and who is the master these days? Time will tell...

The cousin-marriage article was very interesting...

[Larry Lucido]

Conservatives used to know that information does not equal knowledge and that knowledge does not equal understanding.

Conservatives still know this. They also know when to turn their computers and palm pilots on and off, without the author's help. This author has an inflated sense of his own intellectual superiority.

[RobRoy]

As someone who dumped his TV about six years ago, I find this article contains 40% "right on," 30% "makes some sense," 10% "dubious" and 20% just plain nuts.

It is an interesting article.

[Delbert]

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE , IS NOW, AUDIOSLAVE AND THEY ROCK!!!

[Free Vulcan]

Wow, excellent analysis. I don't watch much TV anymore, and keep my websurfing limited to a few sites, and I have noticed my analytical abilities have greatly improved.

[Timesink]

Dear God, what a loon.

I wonder if he knows that his article was laid out and sent to the printer WITH COMPUTERS. Oh, the horror.

[Timesink]

That is how these young minds work. They cannot grasp any sort of intellectual order or framework. All they have ever encountered are bits and pieces of this and that, spewed randomly out of some cosmic, universal vending machine. It is not simply that things do not make sense; these young people have no concept of things making sense.

Translation: "Waaaah! The world has gone on without me! It's not fair!"

I liked it better when I didn't have to memorize fourteen different buttons to play a video game. Things change, Get over it.

[Billthedrill]

I have my doubts. The author of this piece probably didn't type it up on his trusty Remington-Rand, hence some measure of artificial reality must be said to be serving his God (whatever that is) inasmuch as a word processor, and now, the Internet, are not exactly tactile and palpable.

[discostu]

My what an original article. Nobody has ever accused the next generation of beinga bunch of mindless idiots before. He really needs to get off his high horse, the thin air is obviously doing bad things to him. Information is power, always has been. True it's not knowledge, knowledge is what happens when you apply critical thinking to information. If there's a lack of knowledge and tons of information the problem isn't the source of information it's the lack of critical thinking. Of course I wouldn't expect someone that advocates throwing expensive devices from towers to really grock critical thinking.

[sauropod]

Same old leftist bilge.

[sauropod]

I generally agree about the One-Eyed Monster.

However w/o the Internet and FR, there is much I would not know. And Yes, this Paleocon has a framework to put the information in.

I'm not too sure this old fart (Lind) can think either.

[HumanaeVitae]

True...but, think about how the liberal media drastically under-represented conservatives and the conservative movement for the last 40 years, giving the impression that liberalism was the "wave of the future"...

[HumanaeVitae]

Yeah, there is a certain amount of old-fartiness about this piece, but it's provocative to say the least...

[HumanaeVitae]

Soundgarden is now Audioslave too, and they still stink.

[Timesink]

This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it. Its human replacement, a FedEx courier, does the same job with far less trouble.

Hey Billy, guess what? FedEx didn't exist until 1973, and didn't have anywhere near true nationwide coverage until well into the 1980s. And, of course, it is completely computerized from top to bottom. And, of course, it's about 100 times the cost of using a fax machine. By your logic, FedEx should be just as evil as the fax.

[dighton]

The transitions require thought, and computers, in both their informational and virtual reality guises, are enemies of thought. Thought only works if it is unplugged.

Tell me, Mr. Lind, why do you post things on the internet?

[Poohbah]

Lind is one of the 1970s-1980s era "military reformers" who wanted an army that looked JUST LIKE the Soviet Army (lots of cheapie tanks and personnel carriers that would fireball when hit, lots of dumb privates, the sorta-smart privates shake-and-baked into instant NCOs, and only the generals allowed to have any brains).

The last I ever heard of him, he was predicting that we'd have tens of thousands dead in Desert Storm because we relied too much on high-tech toys that wouldn't work.