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Gwaihir's avatar

I purchase used CD's and DVD's from DejaVuDiscs, and I have hundreds of real books. Years ago I said that only fools trust in pixels, and that was before censorship was the raging monster it is now. Just wait until all money is pixel fairy dust that can evaporate at the whim of the controllers. What joy that will be!

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Chelles's avatar

Proudly, my small children know how to use (and daily listen to) my old cassette tapes! I was one who always looked on technology with suspicion. I for one would prefer to own less, but still to own. Ownership and boundaries (as in nations) are, in fact, important. You can’t even come away from reading scripture (specifically the prophets) and not see that ownership actually is important. It’s not that we own things that is bad, it’s that we hoard thins and are greedy for things. It’s great that the richest of the rich who have literally everything they want (except world dominion...yet 🥁) are telling the minions they don’t need anything.

Recently I tried to “rent“ a movie on Amazon, but a notice came up saying “that movie is unavailable in your region”. Uh. No. It’s digital. It doesn’t work like that. However, your weird attempts at priming (pun intended!) us for global totalitarian control certainly do! So I found the dvd on eBay, because it’s one I’d rather own anyway! I’m stubborn about buying all my homeschool books and any books I want to read anymore. I tend towards the used books whenever I can. But, I’m with you. This whole digital “ownership” thing I absurd! I face this even as an artist. Back when I was in art school one could buy and own a copywrite for PhotoShop. Now? Nope. Only a monthly paid subscription to rent the program. Makes me so cranky.

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