WillOTheWispA : Things are so much worse now.
T : Like what?
A : People and the things they do …
T : What makes you say that?
A : The violence, the loss of public and private morals, the …
T : Easy does it. Nothing new I’d say. What’s your point?
A : Technology seems to have made everything so much worse.
T : Has it? I’d have thought it was the other way around.
A : You are perpetually perverse. What do you mean?
T : I mean that earlier, you never really knew what all people were capable of, while they were upto whatever …
A : So?
T : Now, you know.
A ( irritated ) : What’s your point?
T : I don’t somehow get the notion of technology causing you to do something new and abominable. The abominable is nothing new by itself – look at History. It is just that you now have historically advantaged perspective, of getting near real-time takes on the abominable and its aftermath.
A : That makes it better?
T : It certainly does not make it any worse. What do you believe – just because technology has advanced, people are supposed to have progressed ethically too? Where is the causative connection?
A : You’re daft.
T : I must be, if I’m talking to you about this.
A : There is so much of BAD!
T : There is so much of diverse forms of media. BAD sells. Who’s doing the buying?
