bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
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> > I get your concerns about technology and the abuses to which it can be put,
> but the answer to that isn't to get people more involved in tech and spend
> their time looking behind the scenes. The answer is to change the fucking
> economic foundations about upon this system resides. all FOSS does is alter
> the *social relations of production*. That is not the same thing. Oh, and
> if you don't know what I"m talking about re "social relations of
> production", then RTFM, MFers. :)
For any teacher on the list: The _Odyssey_ is a marvellous text to use in explaining this difference (assuming, of course, that you know the difference yourself as well as the "world of Odysseus). Through this filter the Oresteia is a correction (under new social/political conditions)of Book 24 of the Odyssey and The Republic is a rewrite of both.
Carrol
P.S. The mouse isn't good for the elbow, but it is the typing that is a real threat for the elbow (in contrast to the wrist).