Everybody so scared.
Well, it's obvious what we are going to do.
We are going to invent something different. We are going to draw on the best of the past and we are going to invent something different.
How long will it take?
Hell if I know. Meanwhile, I'm going to waste the rest of my life going around and sneakily inserting suggestions .
That's what I do, ya know.
Please don't tell anyone.
Oh, except for those Kossacks who reminded me about those other John Brunner novels, the ones I never picked up on.
Thanks. That helped a lot.
I also really liked the feedback about air conditioners and PVC pipe and refrigerators and all that shit that you folks gave me back when I asked.
That's what advice should be about. I worry a lot about something, I think about it a lot, I try to frame a question, I write it up here and ask.
You answer, in all of your glory, and tangents.
It's not just about me.
I just start it.
And it turns out great. All this great information you have and have just been waiting to ask for an opportunity to answer.
How many lurkers learn from that?
We'll never know. But I like it.
Back to the original question; "What are we going to do?"
I think that question is out of date.
I think we've moved on past that here.
We're already doing it.
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Change takes time. We are in a lot of trouble; everyone who blogs and reads and writes and listens here a lot knows that.
We are in a lot of trouble.
But we are very talented. We show that to each other constantly here.
We are talented about pipes and history and math and sorrow and birds and thousands of other sorts of important stuff.
And most of all, we are talented about working the outside parameters of communication.
The more I blog here, the more I see how the crazy may be wise.
The mere fact that the people who run this place haven't ground that under their heels, speaks well for them.