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...but I wouldn't say that is a bad thing. I tend to find such debates rather fun to watch and participate in.

by PieSquared 18y ago

edw519 18y ago
No, definitely not a bad thing. More like a phenomenon. Sometimes I wonder if pg planned it this way all along.
- hugh 18y ago
  I'd argue that the phenomenon is a bad thing only to the extent that it encourages people to write articles like this. It's a mostly-unrelated, fairly uninsightful way for some guy to whore for his own belief system (everybody buy some guy's CDs!) by disguising it as a response to pg's essay.
  - coffeemug 18y ago
    It is not a disguise, I couldn't be more direct about it. My goal was to introduce people to an excellent (yet little known these days) author who did a very good job explaining these concepts and helping people free themselves from the bondage of their assumptions. Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? This is it. I guess it's a natural reaction in an age when too many people plug too much bad content. All I can say is, read the wikipedia article about him, read his essays, then make up your mind.
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    - hugh 18y ago
      Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? Yep. And then a few years later, when I re-read that same book, I realized that it just wasn't as good as I'd thought it was at that stage of my life. It was actually kinda trite. The blank starers were right all along. I only thought it was great because I was young and I was being exposed to new ideas that I already kinda agreed with for the first time. Any of that sound familiar? And now I just wanna travel back in time and slap my thirteen-year-old self for listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon over and over. It's not that great an album, younger-me!
      - coffeemug 18y ago
        Sure, but you could make this argument about anything worth talking about.
      - nostrademons 18y ago
        Then you remember that there are millions of other younger people out there now that are at the same stage in their lives that you were in then. Just because it's trite to you doesn't mean it'll be trite to everyone. And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager.
        edw519 18y ago
        "And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager." lol! I wore out 3 vinyl versions of it. Then, I hated it when it was on CD. Then, it was the first thing that ever went onto my ipod. I've come full circle. Nothing else brings back more memories for me, good and bad, older and recent. And nothing is better now for "mellow" hacking. Sorry, I couldn't resist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo

...but I wouldn't say that is a bad thing. I tend to find such debates rather fun to watch and participate in.

edw519 18y ago

No, definitely not a bad thing. More like a phenomenon. Sometimes I wonder if pg planned it this way all along.

hugh 18y ago
I'd argue that the phenomenon is a bad thing only to the extent that it encourages people to write articles like this. It's a mostly-unrelated, fairly uninsightful way for some guy to whore for his own belief system (everybody buy some guy's CDs!) by disguising it as a response to pg's essay.
- coffeemug 18y ago
  It is not a disguise, I couldn't be more direct about it. My goal was to introduce people to an excellent (yet little known these days) author who did a very good job explaining these concepts and helping people free themselves from the bondage of their assumptions. Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? This is it. I guess it's a natural reaction in an age when too many people plug too much bad content. All I can say is, read the wikipedia article about him, read his essays, then make up your mind.
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  - hugh 18y ago
    Do you ever read a book and find it so good you want to tell the whole world about it, yet when you try to tell people all you get are blank stares? Yep. And then a few years later, when I re-read that same book, I realized that it just wasn't as good as I'd thought it was at that stage of my life. It was actually kinda trite. The blank starers were right all along. I only thought it was great because I was young and I was being exposed to new ideas that I already kinda agreed with for the first time. Any of that sound familiar? And now I just wanna travel back in time and slap my thirteen-year-old self for listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon over and over. It's not that great an album, younger-me!
    - coffeemug 18y ago
      Sure, but you could make this argument about anything worth talking about.
    - nostrademons 18y ago
      Then you remember that there are millions of other younger people out there now that are at the same stage in their lives that you were in then. Just because it's trite to you doesn't mean it'll be trite to everyone. And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager.
      - edw519 18y ago
        "And I still think Dark Side of the Moon is a great album. I actually like it more now than I did as a teenager." lol! I wore out 3 vinyl versions of it. Then, I hated it when it was on CD. Then, it was the first thing that ever went onto my ipod. I've come full circle. Nothing else brings back more memories for me, good and bad, older and recent. And nothing is better now for "mellow" hacking. Sorry, I couldn't resist... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo