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 Sunday, October 17, 2004
started 10/17/2004; 2:15:17 AM - last post 10/17/2004; 1:41:08 PM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, October 17, 2004 
10/17/2004; 6:15:17 AM (reads: 4550, responses: 1)
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Mother of Inns 
| | Stopping for dinner at the Madonna Inn, a triumph of kitsch over geology (an achievement: the rocks are huge) in San Luis Obispo. There's free Wi-Fi, so we're taking advantage. |
| | Listened to a couple podcasts while zooming down through the Salinas Valley, until the kid couldn't stand it anymore. Can't you play some SONGS on that thing? he kept saying. |
| | Somewhere in there the subject turned to the podcasting story by in the LA Times by Susan Carpenter, which ran in the Calendar section a few days ago. It's a good piece, but a huge PITA to read online, even for a 7-day LA Times subscriber like me. Look it up before it scrolls behind the costwall. Your luck may vary. |
Hugh nu!
| | The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less choice we have to be anything other than ourselves |
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adamsj - Re: Saturday, October 16, 2004
10/17/2004; 5:41:08 PM (reads: 524, responses: 0)
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Once you quote the full sentence, it makes even less sense:
The fewer safety nets there are to save us, the less choice we have to be anything other than ourselves, the less choice we have besides doing what is meaningful to us.
My experience has been that the safety nets enabled me to do what was meaningful to me. If you get a change to read the liner notes to Camper Van Beethoven's reissue of their early Pitch A Tent records, consider what the writers say about Santa Cruz, the California educational system, and the flowering of the Santa Cruz music scene. It matches up with what I've seen back home in Arkansaw (though our state never made the commitment to education California did).
Anyway, if your safety net has just disappeared, this is a very good philosophy to have. If you're trying to preserve safety nets, not necessarily for yourself, then it's a downright disastrous point of view--it amounts to giving up.
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