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- From: "G. Philippe Menos" <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!pucc.Princeton.EDU!GPMENOS>
- Subject: Re: Northern Exposure
- Message-ID: <9301041544.AA14073@BU.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:17:09 GMT
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- Original-Sender: "G. Philippe Menos" <pucc.Princeton.EDU!GPMENOS>
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- On Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:37:35 -0800 <NativeNet@gnosys.svle.ma.us> said:
- >Original-Sender: Marianne Dugan <OREGON.UOREGON.EDU!MDUGAN>
- >
- >Peshewegunzh wrote:
- >>
- >>When one walks through the forest, one is surrounded by spirit on all sides.
- >>A TV program about the forest, however, will have none of the spirit
- >>present, only a series of unliving still photographic images technologically
- >>sequenced.
- >
-
- And, who are you to say what will have spirit and what will not? Ignoring,
- for the moment the issue that nothing is intrinsically good or evil, apart
- from the human beings --their ethics and their intentions-- your categorical
- statements seem to do exactly what you decry in visual technology. In other
- words, your statement imposes your own rather narrow limits on where another
- human being may find spirit with a tyranny that is equal to any propoganda
- film.
-
- It is not technology that is evil, but only the self-serving and/or uncritical
- thinking that is sometimes put behind it.
-
- G. Philippe Menos
-
-