I mean, I think about how he seems to have frozen his world and his expectations in time, and he doesn't feel very comfortable with the new reality of: many people communicating with each other in real time, coming to terms with the fact that Small is Beautiful (production by the masses, not mass production), coming to terms with the idea that our system needs an attitude adjustment. Coming to terms with a world in which this little gem can be made, seen, and enjoyed around the world:
h/t Kossak Rustbelt Democrat
I hope that my attitudes don't harden too much as I age. I'm a little geeky, and I think it helps, as I'm fascinated by the new and different and naively optimistic about what I can actually do. So, I generally love to try stuff, and I want to be engaged with the world as it is, not some other world 25 years ago that rewarded certain behavior.
I don't want to have the awful experience I think John may be having, of looking out at a world that left him so very far behind....
I think E.F. had John's number:
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid, uninteresting, petty, and chaotic. It is difficult to bear the resultant feeling of emptiness, and the vacuum of our minds may only too easily be filled by some big, fantastic notion – political or otherwise – which suddenly seems to illumine everything and to give meaning and purpose to our existence. It needs no emphasis that herein lies one of the great dangers of our time.
