NationStates Jolt Archive

Which of the following best describes you?
a) Luddite
b) Non-Luddite

I take it very few people will pick (a). :p

Which of the following best describes you?
a) Luddite
b) Non-Luddite

I take it very few people will pick (a). :p
Ludite, just to spite you and because I own a walkman, not an ipod.

Non-luddite. Most luddites probably don't own computers.

A)

I am more of a Luddite than not...because frankly I don't see technology as the panacea that so many seem to...and I think that it is alarming how, well, USELESS people have become because they rely so much on technology. Just think of what happens when there is a long power outage...people don't know what to do without electricity...without television and computers and electric stoves and refrigeration and so on.

So, I choose to make sure I can grow my own food, build my own shelter, and do a myriad of other things besides grow fat and complacent on the teat of technology:).

Luddite all the way

*smashes someone else's computer*

Non-luddite. Most luddites probably don't own computers.
We don't have to own them to hate them:).

A)

I am more of a Luddite than not...because frankly I don't see technology as the panacea that so many seem to...and I think that it is alarming how, well, USELESS people have become because they rely so much on technology. Just think of what happens when there is a long power outage...people don't know what to do without electricity...without television and computers and electric stoves and refrigeration and so on.

So, I choose to make sure I can grow my own food, build my own shelter, and do a myriad of other things besides grow fat and complacent on the teat of technology:).

It depends on how you look at it. It is true that we are relatively helpless without technology, but look at how powerful and the progress we make with machines.

Of course it doesn't hurt to be able to help yourself without technology, either.

Comming from around the area the Luddite movement started, I'm probably have a bit of Luddite in me. Oh wait I've found it.

*The Computer flies out the window unto the street below*

I'm practically a technology addict. So no, not a Luddite.

Ethical luddite, but, alas, I'm on here, so it doesn't really carry through. Mind you, i only adopted the computer when i gave up on television. :p

Ethical luddite, but, alas, I'm on here, so it doesn't really carry through. Mind you, i only adopted the computer when i gave up on television. :p

same

Ethical luddite, but, alas, I'm on here, so it doesn't really carry through. Mind you, i only adopted the computer when i gave up on television. :p

I am a luddite when it comes to television. Television is only good for sports, and now they are screwing that up with everything they add to it.

c) other

Luddite. I'm a total technological incompetent.

I am a ludite *destroys computer immediat

Lud-dite (n.)
1. Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2. One who opposes technical or technological change.

Dude, I am SO that first definition.

Because....nobody else has chosen that road quite yet :D

Luwhat?

I think that it is alarming how, well, USELESS people have become because they rely so much on technology. Just think of what happens when there is a long power outage...people don't know what to do without electricity...without television and computers and electric stoves and refrigeration and so on.

Sinuhue is completely correct, people are so reliant on technology and electricity. I used to work in a call centre for a electricity company in the UK. People would ring up and complain that they have no electricity if there was a power cut or if they had been cut off, or their meter had run out of credit (if they were prepay).

I mean some of the things i heard, "How am i meant to feed my kids?!!" It was difficult to not say "Heard of a sandwich madam?"

"How can i see when it gets dark?" Torch or candles sir
"You cannot do this, i have a right to electricity, i will sue you!" You do not have a right, you have not paid so you do not receive electricity and it is not free either.

Working in customer services brings down your faith in the general population and makes you realise how dumb people really are. No wonder Blair got back in power ;)

Sinuhue is completely correct, people are so reliant on technology and electricity. I used to work in a call centre for a electricity company in the UK. People would ring up and complain that they have no electricity if there was a power cut or if they had been cut off, or their meter had run out of credit (if they were prepay).

I mean some of the things i heard, "How am i meant to feed my kids?!!" It was difficult to not say "Heard of a sandwich madam?"

"How can i see when it gets dark?" Torch or candles sir
"You cannot do this, i have a right to electricity, i will sue you!" You do not have a right, you have not paid so you do not receive electricity and it is not free either.

Working in customer services brings down your faith in the general population and makes you realise how dumb people really are. No wonder Blair got back in power ;)

While I agree with the overall points, there are more people out there that would just sigh, flip on their generators, if they have them, to keep their food from going bad (because that's all we use OURS for in major power outages), and read a book by gas lamp or candle light.

A few years back, when I was a wee little one (middle school) and just starting to really enjoy my computer, our neighborhood lost power for SIX DAYS because of major storm damage. My sister and I would spend the days chilling like normal, or over at our Grandmother's when it got up over 100, and in the evenings the family would all amuse ourselves in the living room by candles until we were tired. We would talk to kids in the neighborhood who were complaining that not only had they not EATEN in a few days, but the also refused to shower (the cold water), refused to "sit around in the dark all night", and didn't feel like reading or anything during the day.

Some people should be banned from computers and modern technology for two weeks, or until they no longer sit around and obsess.