Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/13/25 12:26 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:17:43 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    That era was maybe the first time SERIOUS effort was put into
    qualifying/quantitizing how to bullshit humans.
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    And they mostly got it right.

 'Man and Technics'    Spengler
'The Question Concerning Technology'   Heidegger
 Spengler was writing in the aftermath of WWI, Elul and Heidegger of WWII.
Spengler was prescient concerning the spread of technology to Asia.

   Ellul constantly used the term "technique" - ie
   well-defined/quantified methods. It's not quite
   the same as "technology" ... which by the 20th
   was associated with electric/electronic and
   eventually computational.
   Anyway, Madison Avenue and friends put HUGE money and
   effort into finding the best ways to bullshit the most
   people most of the time. They kinda turned it into a
   science. More modern tricks like micro-monitoring
   brainwaves and pupil dilation were available by the
   1980s. The FANTASTIC amount of money involved made it
   all worth it.
   Turn on the TV ... listen to the "Wegovy Crusade
   March" (and just ignore the 99 horrible side-effects
   they briefly zip through !).
   I'm so sick of it I instantly change channels when
   it comes on .........
   Seems like most modern meds have a HUGE list of
   horrible side-effects ... like yer dick rotting
   off from Jardiance infections. Maybe the old
   docs "two aspirin" advice wasn't far off ......
   all my old relatives who stuck to that lived
   the best and longest, and Granny never ate veggies
   for 99 years (inherited her taste buds) - she was
   just northern euro boiled beef & taters and a beer
   or two, sharp to the end .......
   In a couple months I have to break-in a new doc.
   Don't know what the previous put in his notes.
   I've gotta re-explain/justify staying as clear
   of "modern med" as possible ... and I do have
   stories about relatives who rotted and died from
   getting on their bandwagon. Gotta be NICE about
   it however. INTENTIONALLY didn't get corp health
   insurance because of this. If you don't have a
   bottomless well they'll suddenly find reasons why
   you don't NEED all those zillion test$/procedures/meds.
   Gimme a Doc-In-The-Box any day ... specific issue,
   specific simple fix.