Re: Re: Purer Than Thou
On Jan 22, 2007, at 10:51 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
Yeah, I hear ya. I can’t be bothered with how they are made and
sold, I just want my Nike shoes to gleem when I wear them to the
mall. Thank Dog I got that big screen TV (easily fit into my SUV)
in time to see the kewl commercials that break up that stupid
football game this weekend.Does it ever occur to people who take positions like this that
most computer users have neither the time nor the inclination to
get so deeply into things?Barbie says: politics and economic are hard …!
Political economy affects all of us, in scads of ways. If we want to
be less alienated, anxious, and exposed to the risk of climate
catastrophe, it would help to learn something about it. This is
supposed to be democratic, self-governing society, right? I don’t see
how there would be similar social benefits from the masses learning
Unix line commands.
Doug