tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post116498170519001707..comments2023-09-22T15:44:10.411-04:00Comments on CUUMBAYA: Cars and blogsJoel Monkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631333436948102576noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1165084855699126822006-12-02T13:40:00.000-05:002006-12-02T13:40:00.000-05:00Congrats on your 100th post. Your blog is very ins...Congrats on your 100th post. Your blog is very insightful, and I will visit often!<BR/><BR/>Peace<BR/>MarkMark Shellhammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03994754198281391210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1165072765116391842006-12-02T10:19:00.000-05:002006-12-02T10:19:00.000-05:00Yes, the voice acting was particularly good in "Ca...Yes, the voice acting was particularly good in "Cars"- Pixar films always look so good that sometimes we forget to mention when the voice actors do a really excellent job, and they surely did that time.Joel Monkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631333436948102576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1165055063849409852006-12-02T05:24:00.000-05:002006-12-02T05:24:00.000-05:00I saw the movie, "Cars," a few weeks ago and when ...I saw the movie, "Cars," a few weeks ago and when it was over, I said something very similar to the other people I was with (though I didn't elaborate as much). We all agreed that nostalgia is not always true to history.<BR/><BR/>I do, however, think we should be careful and thoughtful about what it is we are losing, particularly when it comes to things like architecture. I do think our consumerist culture lends itself to a disposable sort of way of thinking. The reason I instinctively reject that is because it is wasteful. My impulse generally is to modify or improve what is existing before tearing it down completely (note: I don't necessarily feel this way about abstract constructions).<BR/><BR/>But little towns have always come and gone. Little towns tend to be based on one economy, and when the economy changes, the town has to as, well. <BR/><BR/>All that being said, the movie was hilarious. The voice acting was excellent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1165005132674550752006-12-01T15:32:00.000-05:002006-12-01T15:32:00.000-05:00Who said anything about "the greater good" having ...Who said anything about "the greater good" having to be "stated" reason Joel? Lot's of underlying reasons for doing things go unsaid. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1164992272596418132006-12-01T11:57:00.000-05:002006-12-01T11:57:00.000-05:00The second half of your post borders on non-topica...The second half of your post borders on non-topical, as I'm unaware that the greater good was a stated reason for your problems.<BR/><BR/>As to the first part, you raise a valid concern. my answer is that as long as the people are deciding the greater good, we're safe. In the examples I gave, it was the decisions of the individual consumers that drove the results- nobody forced us to bypass Rt 66, we are the ones who decided to save the extra drive time. WalMart is huge because the people shop there, not because the government dictated that we do so. In both cases we knew full well we were killing off entire industries, but it was our decision.<BR/><BR/>My fear is that some people allow mostalgia or fear to deny useful change. Look at the opposition to NAFTA- it was all based on fear, Pat Buchannon saying "That giant sucking sound is all our jobs moving south". They're still saying it today, despite the fact that employment and the stock market are at all time highs, and South Americans are still streaming north to find the jobs Pat said had gone South.<BR/><BR/>Here in Indiana we didn't observe daylight Savings Time until just this year because of nostalgia for our farming lifestyle... but it cost the state tens of thousands of jobs. And now that the state legislature has changed hands in the recent election, they're talking about repealing it. Is our bucolic, corn-fed image worth all the unemployment? I say no.Joel Monkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631333436948102576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20795009.post-1164989862182290892006-12-01T11:17:00.000-05:002006-12-01T11:17:00.000-05:00"If we allow ourselves to be guided by any princip..."If we allow ourselves to be guided by any principle other than the greater good, we betray mankind for nothing more than a very temporary extension of our current comfort zone."<BR/><BR/>I dare say that I can see a totalitarian society saying something like this to justify its policies and pogroms. . . Who decided what the greater good is Joel? This principle can seriously backfire and I expect that it has in terms of the U*U religious community's decision to totally betray the principles of U*Uism in favor of what some U*Us believed was "the greater good". . . Unfortunately this betrayal of U*U principles, in a deeply misguided effort to serve a false and even quite delusional perception of "the greater good", has not provided anything more than a very temporary extension of the "comfort zone" of U*Us. . . The day may be coming when U*Uism is something of a *dusty* old "ghost town" itself. . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com