[GreenKeys] Low RTTY replacement rate

Tue Oct 27 22:36:35 EDT 2020

D,

Well, all I did was quote someone else's RTTY contest operator age figures in my message. I still haven't gotten around to unsubscribing to Greenkeys. I'm not being subterrainian by intention, but I admit frustration due to my belief that current hobbyists are not going to splice the main brace and tremendous value in terms of the potential of their teletypes to continue to help people the same way radios and computers helped me improve my own mental health over the decades.

In fact, I just responded to a message on [hp80series] pointing out that my feelings in response to opening the shipping carton for my HP-85B is vibrant compared to what I (didn't) experience when I had the same model computer several years ago. Wives often complain their husbands don't know how they feel...about anything. Yes, it's true, and Carl Jung said the wounded feeling function was Western Civilization's gravest problem.

Things have changed in fifty years since he wrote that. Now men and women have the same problem and the generation that came after "X" - which somehow remains blameless as if we are ambassadors to what was before - is not having enough children to support the society in their old age. It's even worse: they are not having as many meaningful romantic relationships and just generally not feeling well. Their rate of suicide has been said to be higher although since I am not a sociologist I cannot know for sure. I was able to see on social medial that many of them feel a malaise that reminds me of certain times since the war. I've referred to this from time to time as a fate worse than death, another honorable mention I'm proud that made it into the new Star Trek.

My feelings on teletypes is, if you want to feel beautiful, have beautiful things in your life. A woman can be beautiful but it's only about 7% predisposed to keep thinking so after the [three] year itch sets in and about women think they themselves are: sadly, almost none. Even famous women have this negative bias about their appearance. If you had to listen to the internal dialog of the typical one of them...well, I don't know what would happen but I'm sure I couldn't be responsible for it.

N.b.: Connie tried to interfere with my hobbies and I kicked her ass to the curb with a quickness and a brief, concise explanation. And suddenly to my eyes she looks coyote ugly all of a sudden.

In the Army I took Sociology 211 under a wonderful woman instructor. Going further back to the USAF, I had a Black roomate who's Mom was a Psychologist with her own practice. He sure taught me a lot and all of it is still fascinating interesting to me, BUT it's easy to see threatening signs in the society where things are not sustainable the way they seemed to be when I was young. In the meantime, stress is known to cause fat and planet might as well be gyrating for the way 2/3rds of Americans can't help but have proud flesh. I remember thinking my Grandparents were fat, but by today's standards people would nearly ask if they were getting enough to eat.

What I know for sure is it's good to preserve what has high quality and to improve what doesn't. The upcoming land-filling of millions of inflation-adjusted dollar's worth of personally satisfying precision electro-mechanical equipment is...

I can tell that despite having a roof over my head and living comfortably, I'm going to have a few bad days over this. I do have a wonderful sense of nostalgia for genious technology from the past that made our way of life possible. For ex., consider the appearance of the US Navy equipment in the movie "The Hunt For Red October" and that of the "Soviet" submarine. The reason the grey...gray (sorry for pretending to be Anglo) gear looks bitchin' is the black "Red" sub was a set made from scratch, buy people who were never designated targetees of first wave nucliear anhililation in their entire lives the way they were at Electric Boat. Making those old movies was a serivice to the society but it wasn't Defense, and they were more like Imagineers than Engineers, and it shows.

ST has some fan productions, I almost got to be a gaffer for one, but became bipolar and needed to bow out. But they some of them, give tours of their sets (ever hear pouring rain on a tin roofed Enerprise? Thanks to being shown a rough cut before post-production, I got to see that on video). I doubt the owner of that studio sleeps many lives...sleeps many nights in the "quarters" part of the set. Sure, once, just to have that experience.

With a TTY, you get to use it every day and fix it when you can. Very meaningful experiences...in a society that due to a widespread wounded feeling function, has trouble pursuing meaningful experiences as effectively as it needs to.

Another thing I dislike is the ARRL's mission of being for promoting handling message traffic, out of neccessity, taking a back seat to promoting amateur radio. But at least it's nice that hams have much better conversations than non-hams get to have. I've bought serveral general coverage receivers since the emergency began and together with the online SDRs they've been winning out over NPR quite a bit AND I'm enjoying myself more now.

Mom tells me of a time when it was a manly thing to work on things when not at work. I think it's a great loss for the many people who just sit on their ass and stare at a screen as their life passes them by. I've heard you can't work on things anymore, but a visit to the hackaday type websites will show it can be done. I even hear these people used to organize large meetings where htey help each other fix things and may have a junk pile for salvaging parts or inspiring new uses for "ordinary" things.

But, it was an accident that I learned about it. I fel very threatened that we are losing a positive part of our culture and few are thinking about what might happen due to that. Thining is my job - the 2% of the population who are the INFJs of the world have always had the mission of offering insight. But I admit I have very little reach on Twitter or Facebook based on Twitter's analytics. Most things I write are only seen by a small handful of people. It's a huge step down from an audience of 60K that I had twenty years ago when I was still thoroughly dumb.

The irony. What Colonel Kurtz shouda said.

Best,
Sean
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