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The Canyon Man And His Fight Against Modern Technology
For the vast majority of people these days, the ways in which modern technology has made their lives more comfortable is taken almost for granted. Even those famous haters-of-all-things-technological, the Amish, or looking at shooing their horses with newfangled horseshoes that promise to deliver at least 50 miles from a bag of horse oats, at minimum.
All kidding aside about the Amish, it’s still a fact that there’s one guy running around — who last updated his wardrobe when Dick Clark was a swinging young man fresh from Philadelphia — around the neighborhood. Call him ‘Canyon Man, ‘ and make sure to also call him a mechanic to help him repair the 40-year-old heap in front of his house he refuses to part with, even to the point of wanting to be buried in it.
Indeed, he’s running around with a leather watch band and an old analog watch that was a gift to him from his father when he graduated from elementary school back when Lyndon Johnson was running the show down in Washington DC. And it’s not all about nostalgia or his father, either; this guy really doesn’t know what to do with a digital watch and would probably run in horror from it if you got him one.
In addition, Mr. Canyon Man can’t bear the thought of giving up that beloved television of his. Everybody knows what it looks like, and the chances are fairly high that the wood the console was made of came off some sailing ship that went down off the Carolina coast during the War of 1812 or thereabouts. The picture tube crackles and hisses, but Canyon Man loves it with a passion bordering on something resembling what Rasputin the Mad Monk demonstrated on occasion.
No, something like a custom LCD (liquid crystal display, for those out there equally as technologically-challenged as Canyon Man is) for a television will never feature in his theater of the mind. In fact, that’s probably a good chance that the words ‘videocassette recorder’ would be just as alien to him as ‘digital video disc’ also is.
What is this man going to do when he is forced to confront the fact that TV is no longer beamed over the airwaves in the analog world? Will he become a ‘New Age Digital Man’ or will he refuse to give in to the inevitable when it comes to a new television and the LED backlight technology that makes one so slim that he would be afraid to approach it for fear that aliens would kidnap his brain?
For many of us, the fight that Canyon Man engages in to avoid all of the wonders of modern technology is important because we’re the ones who are going to have to put up with him as we move into even more high-tech adventures. There probably won’t be a seat on the bus for a guy wearing a leisure suit, let alone anybody having the patience to deal with the cloud of smoke from his car’s exhaust.
Kavinsky – Grand Canyon
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