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To: Mount Athos

No facebook
No twitter
No myspace

No TV (I make an exception for Jeopary! and Wheel of Fortune, heh)
No iPad
No iPod
No iPhone (I do have a cell phone that is ALWAYS turned off)
No beepers
No pagers

I don’t even answer the telephone any more.

Guess I’m about as backward as they come.

I pretty much broke the TV habit in 1971 — was stationed in Germany for a year. There was a TV there, but very little on it. I might have looked at it 6 times in the whole year (actually, I believe it was less).

But it something more than that. Somewhere back there, I made a conscious decision to simply drop out of “mainstream” culture, particulary music.

Since then, I’ve “gone my own way”, so to speak. I have no desire to “get with things” again. For me, there’s no hope!

Several years’ back, I was reading Pat Buchanan’s book “Death of the West”, and was surprised that he recommended people do pretty much what I did, that is, drop out of the “trash culture” and find (even create) their own “cultural sanctuaries” (those last two phrases are my own).

My only weakness: Macintosh!

Just sayin’....


58 posted on 07/30/2011 9:34:45 PM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: Grumplestiltskin

Wow. That’s impressive. How were you even able to post?


59 posted on 07/30/2011 9:40:13 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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