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/p> p> SIMPLIFY, MAN br> Re: Brandon Crocker's Techno-Civilization and Its Discontents : /p> p>Modern technology is fine. Accept what you choose of it into your life. And discard all the rest. br> -- Robert Nowall br> Cape Coral, Florida /p>

Kudos to Brandon Crocker for noting the ultimate lack of necessity for the techno-gadgets we elect to enjoy.

In his paragraph commencing "I am one of the "bridge" group…," Mr. Crocker perfectly sketched my own aloof relations with modern toys. Only significant difference between him and me: I still haven't broken down and purchased a cellular telephone contract. My willful rebellion against the telephone zeitgeist annoys my mother in law no end -- not the least of my many reasons for holding out.

And Mr. Crocker correctly notes the ultimate sin involved, when we yield to marketing for all these expensive whiz-bangs: sloth. We just don't want to do the hard work (mental or physical) that God imposed upon us as our duty after the Fall. I confess to guilt on that score: I'd rather read a book (or The American Spectator) than pick up rocks in my back lot. While here in Asia on deployment I have tried to write letters (in cursive, on paper!) and keep a handwritten journal. Boy is that hard to do in this postmodern, electric age.

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