Re[4]: [at-l] radio stations

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

>  Cell phones are an entirely different animal. Knowing that I can call
>  civilization at any time with all kinds of requests to meet all kinds of
>  emergencies is incompatible with my sense of wildness. I seek wildness to
>  participate in wildness. Wildness, by its very nature, vanishes
> when at the
>  slightest whim, I can call a stock broker, rescue team, lover,
> kids, whatever.

This, more than anything else so far, helps me to understand your point of
view.

>  I am sad that society has become so rigid and controlled that
> such an obvious thing is so hard to understand.

I could say the same thing from the other perspective.  I think it's
difficult, because the experience in question is subjective.

Shane