“Some technologies have made it possible for one to travel to the other side of the world in order to see something, whereas some have made that unnecessary: if it were not for things such as the camera and the Internet, some African boys would have never seen a Chinese woman’s vagina.” TechnologyProgressChildhoodCivilizationPornographyPornGlobal VillageLudditesLudditeTechnophobia Book:F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms Source: F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
“There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.” AnarchismAnarchistHakim BeyPeter Lamborn WilsonAnti WorkLudditeAnti ModernLeftist Quotes Author:Peter Lamborn Wilson
“For whatever reason, commercial mountain guide, Anatoli Boukreev raced down ahead of his group—which in fact had been his pattern throughout the entire expedition, as, his employer, Scott Fischer’s final letters and phone calls from Base Camp to Seattle made clear.” SelfishIncompetentMountain ClimbingEverestCharlatansClimbing QuotesLudditeEverest Base Camp Trek Book:Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
“If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.” WritingReadingLiteratureTechnologyBooksSmellInventionDigitalWritersPrintAphorismInkAphorismsPrintingEbooksAmwritingE BooksLudditesLudditeTechnophobiaEarly AdoptersEarly Adopter Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Orthodoxy is the departure lounge for irrelevance.” IrrelevantOrthodoxyWasted LifeIrrelevanceLudditesLudditeStick In The MudUndevelopedChanging With The Waves Of TimeStick Your Head In The Sand Author:Stewart Stafford
“Had my first building inspector at the job. A gray jay, affectionately known as camp robber, came in his drab uniform of gray and white and black to look things over from his perch on a branch end. The way he kept tilting his head and making those mewing sounds, I'd say he was being downright critical. I welcomed his company just the same.” NatureWildernessConservationHermitLudditeItinerant Author:Richard Proenekke