Re: To SRC regulars....



On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, BMJ wrote:

Straydog wrote:

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And, earlier today I spent some time looking at some "soc.culture.*" newsgroups. Amazing how much spam propaganda is there. Everything from the pro-India (I wonder how much these guys are geting paid), to penny stock pitches, to all kinds of blather. Newsgroups, a lot of them, have sure gone downhill. I remember not too many years ago that you didn't see much of this blatant commercial propaganda and hype, but you could find young brats making posts where one guy calls another guy a name,

Many of those brats are likely not so young any more. I'd wager that some of them might have grey hair. ;-)

Well, I'm making a parallel with ham radio and CB radio. Back around the late '50s, the FCC took eleven meters away from the hams (pissing them off suprememly) and gave it to the CBers (to their infinite childish joy) and while the CBers did do some good things around the country, the vast majority behaved poorly and illegally and with low intelligence. Besides low brow conversations, the major goals were to look out for the cops (smokey bears, four wheelers, etc) and the local loose women (the beaver report). And, thus radio spectrum became occupied by the "unwashed" generation. And, so, the internet gets turned over, around 1990, from the academics/military/gov to joe blow, And what do we get? Just like television: content dumbed down, over the decades from 1950s to now, from being aimed at average HS diploma viewer to about, what, first or second grade elementary school mentality? Ever see that Brits TV "Teletubies"? They don't even talk; they make peeping noises, or something like that. For the whole program. I saw one episode with the wife and I looked at her (and her, me): what was the constructive purpose of that? Or, was there recognizable purpose of any kind there?

and the next post, the other guy calls the first guy a name....(Godwins Law, you know), whereas a few years before that (say early '90s), there
were fairly long, detailed, introspective, reflective, meaningful posts on a lot of these NGs. Its a shame. Sometimes it makes me think of that biblical story of the Tower of Babble (shudders, it gives me). Extending on your question the other day, the problem with the internet's influence on our society is that we interact with machines more (we keyboard potatoes) and less with our (human) brethern. I fear this is not good.

Old Pif



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