> Of course, popular culture has become completely mindless and we have
> regressed over a century in political and economic consciousness, but
> it's a treat avoiding constant watch repair.
I agree about the watches (and also clocks in cars), but the questions of pop culture and political/economic consciousness were, as I understand it, outside the present topic, which relates to material culture.
If you want my opinion on those questions, I do think pop culture has regressed since the '50s, but I never have paid much attention to it. Political and economic consciousness? Hard to say -- it wasn't that great then, either.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melancholy (1684)