By: Ina

Ina — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:56:40 +0000

It is evolution, as you get older the basic logical ideas (that have always worked for you) are discarded and the newest generation of ideas are installed in the brains of the next generation. Then the insanity of the newest ideas just scrambles your brain, makes no sense. I watched my grandmother struggle to “read” comics -they never made sense to her. This digital world seldom makes sense to me. It is not that we are incapable of learning, our brains do not grasp the new because the old makes so much logical sense. For myself –”my brain is analog and the world is digital”– and sometimes I want to crawl back into my safe analog world and curl up -BUT-the new generation of ideas (should I say the next generation) will not let me. To survive I have to learn and cope and throw some old logic out the window (nearly impossible at times). I have a 16 year old Nissan that I maintain, a simple cheap part to keep it on the road is almost impossible to get, thank goodness I have found a person that knows how to “make do” and “adjust” and “tinker”. So throwing out some old logic helps. If Apple comes out with NEW every other week, I call it (my old logic) “keeping up with the Joneses”, and ignore it all! You have to have it, I don’t. This Mac is the only Apple I have. Keep the old, store it away, and 50yrs you can have an antique to sell on future E-Bay, or whatever! “They” are the next generation and “their” new logic to me is -Acquire/ThrowAway/Acquire/ThrowAway –ad infinitum

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By: Ina