Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 15:47:50 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fortune candidate... Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010802154406.0525bc20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <p0510039ab78f4219eb09@[194.78.241.123]>
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At 11:48 AM 8/2/2001, Brad Knowles wrote: >Folks, > > I kid you not. This is a direct quote from a private e-mail discussion that I've been having: > >> the future.. why support something that is needed in the future ? >> and not now ? > > Now, it turns out that this person is a seventeen year-old kid. Which is actually a telling reflection of the Zeitgeist. Things change so fast and in such wildly unpredictable ways nowadays that preparing too much for -- or even attempting to anticipate -- the future can actually be frustrating and risky. What you're hearing from this 17-year-old is the impression that many younger people are getting of the world: Everything is transient and chaotic, so why try to plan? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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