Hair and I have eaten already. What are the rest of you having for breakfast?
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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"a Luddite day today"
Since you mentioned "Luddite," I can't resist commenting again on the article (Lord of the Luddites meets Lord of the Rings) you guys had posted a couple weeks ago.
That writer called Tolkien a "tree hugger," I consider that a shot at both Tolkien and his fans, us. Because the folks that call themselves tree huggers don't really love trees, they are just out there using trees as a lever to push socialism. And they're also trying to feel important, like a few hobbits in the Scouring of the Shire.
Tolkien OTOH, (like us) really loved the trees for their own sake and their own beauty, he did not use them to further some questionable cause - big difference between him and the "tree huggers."
And I'm not really convinced that he was really a "Luddite." When he was growing up, neither washing machines nor automobiles were often seen, they were not at all a part of daily existence, as they are for us. I think, to him, their advent coincided with the loss of the pastoral beauty of the Oxfordshire countryside to industrialization and its ethics of individual freedom to socialism. All these things occurred during the course of his life, my feeling is that the writer's comparison of Tolkien to a "tree hugger" or a "Luddite" is, at best, disingenuous.
Forgive me for this exercise in pedantry, did I use disingenuous right?
I think he was kind of ticked with the hippies and leftists that kept misinterpreting him.
I sort of think the fact that Nader is associated with the greens proves that their agenda lies somewhere other than conservation of wilderness or whatever.
I went to my used curriculum fair last night and as usual, I didn't buy any curriculum, because I already have all that I need, but I did pick up some really neat supplies. I got a microscope, just a toy one, but good enough to see some small pond life, butterfly wings or leaves and such. I also got a 3-hole punch! For .50!! And I got a soprano baroque recorder for $3, it looks brand new. Now I don't know if I'm going to keep the recorder or give it to the boys to learn...
Click here to see a picture of one similar to the one I bought.
Good morning everyone... finally up and about on a lazy day here. Watching tennis and making breakfast. Not much planned for today beyond watching the horses run this afternoon.
Hope everyone enjoys their day!
The recorder looks nice. I've thought about getting an alto one. The fingering for one of those is different from the tin whistle, isn't it. I can see me getting it all mixed up!
I'll take care of the arithmatic... I have to do some accounting work sometime today. Goodness knows whether I'll get up the ambition to start it though!
We have a small home-based business. I need to catch the books up through the end of May, and get some bills paid.
I think it's the bill-paying part that is sapping my enthusiasm for starting... ;)
Hmm, good point... I'm not sure if I'd rather deal with Black Riders or creditors, though! :)
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