I wish Boondocker hadn’t come in and snarked up the comments section, because it seems like I’m backing him/her up. AND I AM NOT :P

I do think, however, that tikaro makes a good point in argument to yours. NOT THAT I’M SUGGESTING TIKARO WAS BACKING ME UP. HE/SHE IS TOTALLY NOT. :o

Having a train on a quilt isn’t quite the same as having an Apple (TM) iPhone (TM) quilt. Yes, in the former example, people are indirectly accepting a form of transportation that will eventually be seen as unsustainable for the greater good, but they certainly had no way of seeing that at the time. The coal industry was a business, but it was built on genuine necessity where the pros outweighed the cons (at the time.) That’s a bit different from the latter example, where someone willingly, in the year 2010, chooses to advertise a specific product for a specific company, neither of which are doing anyone a bit of good in any genuine sense other than short-term convenience; given that we are sophisticated enough today to consciously know firsthand the environmental and spiritual damage caused by our current zombie-like acceptance of all things digital, one can’t claim ignorance they way your grandmother’s friend easily could.

What’s even more odious is the image of an innocent baby crawling on something that represents nothing in her interest- facebook, apple, these guys aren’t merely neutral in her development, they’re stunting her development as she won’t know a time in her life where she wasn’t already interfacing with a 2-dimentional screen for her “education,” or a time when she wasn’t being sold something by someone somewhere who saw here merely as an exploitable demographic. That’s the cultural value we want to teach our kids?

We’ll be looking back on our techno-lust the way we are currently looking back on our industrialization-lust of the past century.

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