Don’t Like
I am a fan of the Kingston Trio, among other folk groups of that era. They perform a song, whose name escapes me, that is about the natural human condition of organizational rivalry. The clincher line is “And I don’t like anyone very much!”
One of the reasons I like folk music is because it is all about human matters and can point scientists to matters as yet unresearched. And, of course, I can understand most folk music, which is more than I can say for most other music of the era and later. Which, incidentally, is why FD SCP and I seldom listen to wireless music when we are sharing an automobile.
So on the matter of humans and their dislikes, I was rather taken by an article in the BBC feed this morning. [Link] It seems that the English have conducted a survey and have determined that 0.3 of the population of the British Isles are not connected to the internet. More crucially a fraction given as 0.42 (presumably of that 0.3? the reportage is unclear which is strange for the Brits; they may abide tyrant-monarchs almost always but they are equally seldom unclear in their journalism) is given as having neither desire nor interest in/for the internet.
Now a large component of this group, 0.61 (or the 0.42?, this article is a maths communication nightmare!) are of advanced years and hence may be considered to reject the internet as a matter of change control, but nonetheless there is the very happy remainder who put the lie to the idea that the internet is the next stage in human societal evolution.
So as much as I may make use of the beast of an uncountable, approximately infinite, number of horns [1] I may rest assured that it is not as fundamental as too may bogs would want us to believe in our consumer-lemming existence.
[1] It is after all, Friday, and hence Punday.
