Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Can't just be any old old thing though. I don't like old tat.
Very true, I've read quite a few old books and none of them specifically say at any point "and no-one was able to fly" so, yeah. In fact that's also true of modern stuff - films, books, news reports, friends talking about what they did last night etc - no-one ever says "no-one flew" so for all I know people are flying around all the time the second I turn my back.I like Far Eastern "flying people" films. They sometimes get called "historical drama" - I have a DVD of "The Swordsman" ( 笑傲江湖 ) ( I think - it might be an entirely different Wu XIa film, but the principle is the same ), based on a novel by Jin Yong ( or the anglicised "Louis Cha" ), the most important author of the 20th Century, where amongst the extras there is an interview with one of the actresses ( who all the characters mistake for a "boy", gender confusion is an integral element of these films, even though it is entirely obvious that it is a female trying to pass as male ) and she boldly claims "Who is to say that people didn't fly back then? We weren't there, we can't prove that people didn't fly back then".
Exactly.
Today we are offering for sale a very unusual but desirable lot. A vintage dissensus poster in very reasonable condition. Of course it has picked up a few bangs here and there due to years of experiencing and absorbing underground culture - a small scar on its face after an altercation with Jean-Michel Basquiat at The Mudd Club, a tattoo in an intimate place applied by Keith Haring and so on (see pictures below for details) - but these are really part of the charm of this truly unique piece.I don't think of you as old Leo, in my book you're vintage.
Classic zhao!"Who is to say that people didn't fly back then? We weren't there, we can't prove that people didn't fly back then".
He was a fully automated CCP drone the last time he posted anything on here. I mean he was always a nutter, obviously, but it was still a bit shocking all the same.hes gone off Tibetans now though he thinks theyre a bunch of cunts
I'm not sure that the mystery is gone though. New technology has developed rapidly but although the average person's familiarity with using it has kept pace, I don't think that the understanding of how that tech works has kept up with it at all - the average user has no idea how their laptop or phone works. Imagine a 19th century guy whose watch stops, he can take the back off and even if he can't repair it he can see that that cog turns that one which tightens that spring and ultimately pulls that lever. His modern day equivalent who takes apart his laptop is just confronted by meaningless tiny boxes and so on... he knows it's not magic but, as ACC (not AOC as my hands tried to write for a second then) so famously said, for all most people understand of the day to day workings, it may as well be.what about this pop-heideggerian idea that the more comfortable you become with technology, the more you fall into a view point in which the mystery is gone bc you're just a cog in a giant factory, but old technology "re-wilds", somehow, existence