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Individuality Revisited

Contrary to a comment that I received on a recent post -- thank you for sharing your thoughts -- I think that I was mis-understood.  I wasn't pining for a return to communal efforts which this reader took to mean the beginnings of communism.  I was only observing that our highly prized individuality is possible, or at least made easier, by our affluence.

I don't recall seeing that connection made elsewhere, or at least not that starkly.

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Uphill Battle

This little embedded app for entering blogs is annoyingly slow
and has crashed once already on me.  But that's nothing
compared to the frustration of trying to navigate into the
site wherein I could edit/create my own blog entries.

Get this: having already created this blog, now wishing to return
and post more entries, I tried the "login" hyperlink.  It got me
logged in, but not to my blog.  No, for that I had to click on the
graphic entitled "Create Your Own Blog (it's easy)".  But of course
I've already created one...so why would I want to use that?

It reminds me of that microsoft-ism whereby to log out you needed
to click on the "start" button.  Make sooooo much sense.

OK, as long as I'm ragging on the site, the limited list of topics
for posts means that there is no "other" topic, only the pre-defined
set that we all have to live with, which are hardly an exhaustive list.

Say what you will about the difficult navigate on the site, it does
get you looking at a lot of other posts and ads and such, which is,
after all, their purpose, I suppose.

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The Luxury of Individuality

I was watching a huge (and I mean huge) bonfire this weekend
as Boy Scout Camp for our Troop drew to a close.  It occurred to
me how much work went into building that fire, yet how many of
us it warmed.  (In fact, the first row of scouts had to move back
a row -- it was too warm sitting that close.)  But what if one man
had to do all that work?  What if that was the source of heat for
your family?  It would be a lot of work to gather a enough wood
to buld a fire like that -- every day.  Now what about planting or
hunting?  It seems that cooperation - community life, a village,
a shared fire, would be so much more efficient.  It has been said
that humans are a social animal.  More than just the protection
that the "pack" provides, there is effeciency in scale.

Now fast forward to modern life; can you see what luxury there is
in the indivuality that is a hallmark of our culture?  The flick of a
switch and I have light, or heat, or cool air, or music, or transportation.
What a luxury!  And it allows me the luxury of not having to cooperate,
not having to share, not having to be part of a community.

A blessing and a curse.


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Linux/Firefox Friendly ?

I've accepted the challenge to set up (and run) a blog.
I want to be able to post using my preferred tools:
Mozilla Firefox  on a Linux platform.

It seems to be working - hats off to the techies/geeks at TownHall -- oops, I spoke to soon.  Their use of JavaScript is, as one might expect, hosed for this browser.  I'll try from  a newer version of the browser on the next post.  Until then, hyperlinks will be a pain to get working, but I've been able to get this one going.  Ugh.

We'll see how it works as the posting progresses.

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