This is the future!?
I read this line along time ago.
Hobbes: "A new decade is coming up (1990)." Calvin: "Yeah, big deal! Hmph. Where are the flying cars? Where are the moon colonies? Where are the personal robots and the zero-gravity boots, huh? You call this a new decade?! You call this the future?? HA! Where are the rocket packs? Where are the disintegration rays? Where are the floating cities?" He is right! It still applies to today! Unfortunatly. I am grossed out how everything is so shoddily made! Desks are made of cheap fiberboard that breaks and flexes. Cars crumple like tincans. Back then, stuff was made out of REAL wood and THICK Steel with sturdy paints and finishes. Electronics have crappy motors and thin plastic cases. They are most times unfixable when they break. They charge you an arm and a leg to fix it, so it is often cheaper to toss it in the trash and buy a new one, and that is what too many people do! I can't really blaim them. The way stuff was made decades ago was so good. Things were designed to work and work well. When they did break down, they were designed to be fixed! Now, everything is slapped together. I even see cheap construction in some expensive stuff. What a shame. A good example is the fact that this old stuff is still here today and most of it WORKS STILL! I really can't imagine much stuff like lamps, cd players, ECT made today being functional in 50 years. No way, Unless it was vacuum packed and stored away and never used! I will use my two vacuum cleaners as one example. I have one that was made decades ago, it works beautifully! It is constructed of steel and cast aluminum. It seamed that the only plastic on the thing was the label for the company who made it! The motor is built like a goddamn tank! In the christmas of 2007, I recieved a brand new Hoover. I liked it because it is an upright and I don't have to drag the old one around like a ball and chain. But, this machine is a hunk of flimsy plastic! It had only been a few mones before some of the plastic parts behan wearing out!!!! The other example is my computers in my collection. My "main" computer is new. I built it in 2008. A quad core pig with 4 GB of ram! I was enraged when it's 320 GB drive died and I lost 80 GB of data. I replaced it quick with a 250 GB drive and it failed too. It has a new 500 GB drive in it now. I am pissed off beyond words because I have a Mac in the corner that is from 1994 and it is working PERFECTLY! Probably still has the original HD in it too. I have a Pentium 1 IBM from 1996 that is still running sweet, and playing MP3s and doing it's job. No problems what so ever! In the mid 1990's when I was a little kid, I marveled at what the world woould be like then the new century rolled around. I imagined miracal cures for cancer and AIDS, no more gas burning cars, cheap ligtning fast and reliable computers that you could hold in your hand, a colony on the moon, and people cruising to work in flying saucer. When 2000 came around, I was crushed by what I didn't see. Sure there have been breakthoughs but not like I expected. I know that it would be expensive to build stuff the way it was back 50 years ago, but think of this: If things lasted, then there would be MUCH less "junk" going to the landfills. |
Fuck commodity, what I want is social progress rather than economic progress.
Give me an average subsistence wage, but allow me time to hang out and fall on a stupor with entirely new people and I will be fucking happy to be in Utopia. That's the future I want. Except I'd probably be a teacher. |
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I've seen the future, brother. It is murder....
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If you make things last, people don't have to buy new ones. That's not good for business.
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It won't be good for the future if the earth runs out of resources.
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Cars crumple so the humans don't you goddamn idiot.
Desks are made of fiberboard to avoid cutting more trees for solid oak desks. |
Actually, these days, the new shiny tin cars take the humans with them.
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I want humanity to evolve into something better.
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Holy shit.
I'm actually offended that Opteron Man used something as beautiful as Calvin & Hobbes to make a statement as retarded as the sentiment of this thread. That's like taking a shit on a Faberge Egg. Not only did he walk away from the strip with the exact opposite idea of what that strip was about, he clearly has no fucking clue as to what he's even talking about. As Ophie said, you get in a car-wreak in one of those old, "Sturdy" Metal and wood cars you will be LIQUIFIED. As for the rest of you dumb bastards pining for the "technology" of a bygone era. Fucking stop it. You sound like republicans getting all nostalgic for the nineteen-fifties. This past that you believe in, where things were always cheap, sturdy, and repairable. Where morons like you skipped in stream driven oil-fountains to the tunes of The Birthday Party NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED. It's a goddamn fantasy that your infantile minds have concocted for some fucktarded reason unknown to anyone with two brain-cells to rub together. You are essentially pining for the Industrial Revolution. Enjoy your fourteen-hours a day in a fucking factory. Enjoy your paycheck of pennies and coal. Hell why don't we go get nostalgic about slavery while we're at it? Handpicked cotton was so much better than the mass-produced shill we have today wasn't it? Dumbasses. |
SLAVEPUNK!!!
Opteron... You know what. So many of you are broken. Broken. It's like you fractured your brains and can only smell almonds. Opteron... PLEASE get into one of those old steel cars and drive at a brick wall as fast as you fucking can. Just... |
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You just Chose to engage in stupidity. Fuck you. You are garbage. You are HOT GARBAGE. |
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If you can't glean that from what I said, just leave this thread. I am sick of you shooting me down, what is your problem? |
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Why waste your time? I asked a question, why are things built so cheaply when it is not nessesary? Nevermind, YOU are the fucking fool, not me. You are just trying to bring me down, why? I don't know. |
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when the hinge on the glove box is made of plastic and breaks that is when I wonder why it couldn't be better. |
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I wasn't talking about the comic strip; I just saw that quote on the internet somewhere. Don't compare me with the republicans! Don't do it. Your mentioning of slavery is wrong, out of line and over the top. As before, my question I pose is distorted and misinterpreted. I have no idea why I am still surprised that you guys are so closed minded. |
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You know why I give you a hard time? You know why I don't like you? Because you're BETTER than what you're doing. YOU just CHOOSE to be a fool. You can be so much more than you are, but you revel in mediocrity as if somehow bleached up tee shirts and bad top hats will open some deep seeded liberation of the soul for you. You're either fucking BROKEN and an idiot, or you're a seemingly intelligent person who simply made a few stupid choices. FIX yourself and you wont be fucking intellectually ransacked every time you dance your stubby fingers on a keyboard. JUST FUCKING STOP. |
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Plenty of room for improvements, yes. You just have to be patient.
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