Quote Originally Posted by DWFII View Post
Speak to me...us...about what the "good new days" offer. Where are we going? What are the consequences?

It's easy to say they are a "thing of the past"...to dismiss connections and craftsmanship and caring about people the pursuit of excellence and taking responsibility for one's actions as untenable in modern society. But what are the alternatives?

How's that "brave new world thing" working out?
As an American, living in the the land where the concept of "planned obsolescence" was conceived, where the supermarket was introduced to supplant the livelihoods of countless small traders, where mass-production in factories and shipbuilding were first introduced, you of all people must be very aware of just exactly where we are going. And, of course, when your countrymen - and mine - priced themselves out of the drudgery and toil involved, the jobs moved overseas to low wage economies in Asia and elsewhere. Trouble is those low wage economies are now becoming more affluent. Nowadays they want all the goodies that we've enjoyed for so long. They all drive cars now instead of riding bicycles, every mud hut has a television and so the price of petrol (gas) goes up along with all the other raw materials we used to get so cheap. I think you can see where I'm going. To that "brave new world" you talk about where we might find ourselves in a thirld world country ourselves in a few generations.