[at-l] On Personal Responsibility

[rafeb at speakeasy.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 11:35 PM 8/16/2005 -0400, Jim intones:


>Weary wrote:
>
>>Discrete use of pack-carried cell phones are harmless as long as they are 
>>carried by a minority of users. But the nature of the trail will have 
>>changed when cell phones are found in most packs, as surely they will 
>>very soon, if not already.
>
>Anyone who fails to understand this, simply fails to understand the nature 
>of what the Trail has been for the last 60 years.  There are those who 
>have hiked the Trail before the era of instant communications.  Some of 
>them understand the reality that the words of Weary's quote - "A world in 
>which you relied, always, on yourself" - are not compatible with a world 
>in which any and every problem can be made the responsibility of someone 
>else - someone not even connected with your life or your hike.  It's a 
>world in which there is no personal responsibility, no real challenge, no 
>requirement even for competence because if you screw up - there's always 
>someone to call to "kiss it and make it better."  Contrary to what anyone 
>thinks - that's NOT HYOH - it is in fact, the antithesis of HYOH.


Oh blather.  I don't need a lecture from you or anyone
else on personal responsibility.  That has nothing to do
with a cell phone.  I can, and have for the last thirty
years, done quite well without one.  Now I carry one.
Get it?  You're way off base here.


rafe b
aka terrapin 


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