Re: UKNM: Archbishop of Canterbury talking out of his arse dot com

[Neil.McIntosh]

But a more general point could be drawn from the good Archbishop's comments.


Perhaps you don't dream of big IPOs and subsequent riches/fast

cars/documentary

interviews, but it seems a large portion of the dot.com industry is blinded

by

that vision.


Hence a lot of half baked ideas with no discernible means of making money,

hyped

beyond all proportion. All they're supported by is a frenzy of activity by

net.slaves who sacrifice all - "all" being a life, their health, families,

partners, friends - in a bid to Get Rich Quick.


Many enjoy it, but many endure it only because they think there's a pot of

gold

at the end of the slick of shit.


I'm all for "judgemental old fucks" coming along and questioning this

industry -

there's a lot to be questioned, especially in moral terms (let's start with

exploitation and greed, for two). Is there a chance that there's more to

life

than the net?


Whether, of course, the Archbishop could any more show me the things of the

spirit than he could a half decent online clothes retailer is another

question

altogether. Come to think of it - perhaps the latter is just a silly, old

fashioned superstition.


Neil Mc



>Was anybody else extremely pissed off at the Easter speech from the

>Archbishop of Canterbury that basically said that we're all a bunch of

>good-for-nothing materialistic greedy bastards?


>Money, power, success and fame, said Dr Carey, were only "transitory,

paltry

>things" associated with our "dot.com society" when compared to "ultimate

>things of the Spirit".

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid%5F723000/723394.stm


>Now I don't know about you lot, but I work at least 70 hours a week and get

>paid less than most of my mates, as do the other people running Netsite. We

>plough all of our spare energy, time and money into building the company

>into something special and unique, and so it's a bit disappointing when

some

>judgemental old fuck comes along and slags you off for it.


>Especially since he only works Sunday mornings and probably gets paid loads

>anyway.


>Him and his ilk are the reason that the only Spirit I have is a wee dram of

>Bushmills to try to make those sleepless nights a bit easier to cope with.


>Anyway, anyone know any good designers who want to work in Kent?


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Neil McIntosh

Deputy editor, Online

The Guardian, London

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