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19 Dec 2007, 9:02 am

ouinon wrote:
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We are machine parts, we fit one place, and do one thing, parts form subsystems, that make systems, the unlabled parts are scattered over earth. We do not even know what it is, but we have to build it.
You are perfect and unused parts of something. Not fitting in any known system, says you are parts of a new machine.

In my case i think it's that i am a part of an old machine which has been thrown out. Perfect unused part of a machine which has been rendered redundant by newer ones.
I would have been very useful before the camera was invented. I loved drawing, especially portraits and still lives.
I would have been very useful before the printing machine. I loved writing clearly and neatly for hours.

I pick fruit fast and accurately because i have good hand eye connections. I see the fruit and pick it, all in one step almost. I would have been useful before the invention of mechanised harvesters.

I would have been a good hunter-gatherer.

I love walking. It is no longer useful. They invented the car.

I am a remnant of a previous phase of development. It is difficult to see how my redundancy now is likely to change, seeing the way things are going.
I remember feeling suddenly pointless when they brought in computers to the Tax Office of the Inland Revenue. I was no longer supposed to do the calculations; the computer was to do it. I had loved the meticulous calculations of taxation, setting out the elements etc. I enjoyed that part of the work. All that was left afterwards was people stuff. Phone work, bla bla letters asking for info etc. Management. The best bit was taken out of it.
How can i believe that i am part of some beautiful new machine yet to be put together when i actually saw one thing i was useful at taken over by a computer?

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Because it does a single function, only the smallest part of what you can do. Harvesters cannot chose the ripe fruit, they take all, and the quality of the wine suffers, cars break, and doing a book, the hard part is not the printing, but getting the images to print.

Hand lettering is something I need, for it goes with pictures, drawn, and words should not be a standard font. I cannot illustrate with clip art. Machines do take tasks, and I could not produce thousands without them, but the one Master Copy, that is made by hand.

Computers will not write books, draw, compose, for art is very human. Machines cannot fix themselves or assign tasks.

Most important, is only we can visualize the future, where all things come from.

So the very skills you have, drawing, writing seeing the world as a hunter-gather at a walking pace, are just the ones I find hard to find. Original skills can never be replaced.

I have been looking for you.