What Music Are You Listening To?

[Mittineague]

I’ve been listening to oldies

Kinks - Celluloid Heroes

and it made me think of

The Internet and the Throwaway Society

I sometimes worry that our increasingly digital culture—as handy as it is in many ways—is also a reflection of our “throwaway” mentality. We are not thinking enough of the long term. As a student of ancient cultures, I became acutely aware of how hard it is to preserve cultural assets over time. For example, the relatively few books that have survived from ancient times have all come down to us in scraps and fragments—even the Bible—and have been painfully reconstructed by innumerable scholars. …