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> On Feb 28, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Alan Rudy wrote:
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> Let's turn it again... aren't the following among the primary driving
>> forces
>> behind the need for ever-greater computer speed and capacity 1) the
>> staggeringly bloated size of the dominant operating system, 2) the
>> ridiculously fractured niches of proprietary software, 3) the hegemony of
>> the freestanding (rather than cooperatively networked) home/laptop
>> computer
>> and 4) our society's capital-driven incapacity to develop or satisfy our
>> own
>> video, musical, sexual, and friend-ly needs within our own immediate,
>> uncommodified relationships?
>>
>
> 1) I use a Mac, 2) I think the software I use is pretty good, 3) I like
> having my own computer, and don't want to share it with anyone else, and 4)
> I'm very happy with my uncommodified relationships, but I love being able to
> get/listen to good music performed by highly skilled professionals. So...no.
>
> Doug
>
A) I didn't realize your power over infotech capital, surely everyone else will soon follow suit, no bloat on Apples, B) I'm glad to hear you've embraced the limits (and, presumably, the) cost of your software, I guess it is hard to imagine that any of it could have been developed and/or work better, C) I guess web storage and web-based computer acceleration aren't good ideas anyway, Google and MIT don't know shit, and D) I'm glad your personal relationships and cultural opportunities and practices are clearly representative of the rest of our society's members...
obviously, I A) am uncommonly weak relative to infocapital, B) am unncessarily hard to please, C) need to get over myself and stop thinking that there might be a better way, and D) need, most of all, to improve myself, my loved ones and where I live. You know, I think the problem was that I've spent way too much time rejecting the kind of objectivist and masculinist individualism those Real America high school coaches drilled into me... you know, like pursuing the kind of social self-reflexivity, feminist pedagogy and democratic praxis that has made me a limpdick pansy (thanks to shag for that).
Or were you just messin' with the new guy?