[sdiy] Death of DIY?

[epeasant at telusplanet.net]

>but DIY is not ONLY a musician thing.  It's extended
>into all aspects of my life;  comes from a genuine desire to know
>how things work.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

>> >Here in the US of A, we're all bred from birth by
>> > the corporations
>> > to be passive consumers;  if they do their job
>> > correctly, then we
>> > reach a stage where it wouldn't occur to us to even
>> > IMAGINE anything
>> > other than what they offer us.... they provide the
>> > products, they set
>> > the standards & fashions.

I suppose those of us who totally reject television are somewhat immune to this?



>> > Suffice it to say, in the US we're encouraged NOT to
>> > be fascinated by the
>> > way things work, or how to fix them ourselves, or
>> > how to create new things.

And how many products attempt to shroud their easily understood workings in
mystery to make the products more desireable, the "mystique" factor? What a
crock!

>> > (and NO, this is not a "conspiracy theory";  there's
>> > no shrouded conspiracy --
>> > the corporations are quite up front about how money
>> > is their true god, how
>> > MUCH of it they want to make, and what our place is
>> > in the greater scheme
>> > of things.  Nothing hidden about it at all;  it's
>> > just sad that there's so
>> > little resistance to it, and sad how anyone outside
>> > the standard consumer
>> > mold is considered a "crank".)

Especially when a person actually works with "vacuum tubes", gasp! One website
that links to my own calls me a "Total Freak" for my efforts to build a modular
tubesynth. Not to mention all of the verbal abuse that I receive. And of course
these same people are totally unbelieving when you make something yourself that
actually works!

Another very cranky old fart,
Doug

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