Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/08

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Subject: Re: Message VS Medium--It Ain't the Camera -Reply
From: Joel Tlumak <JT@JMBM.COM>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:15:45 -0700

"I'm all for this -- the continual re-offering of the tantalizing
pleasure of ownership which can only be released in sporadic
ecstasies of acquisition, forms the very basis of our
consumerist system--- and I would have to be some kind of
pinko socialist not to be all for it!!"

I think you should be more PC -- Photographically Correct in
your application of political terminology to a photography
users list.  Therefore

.... I would have to be some kind of 98% gray socialist not be
be all for it

or if you shoot in color

.... I would have to be some kind of unsaturated socialist not to
be all for it.

Now the latter is obviously more objectionable that the term
pinko which obviously bothers my rainbow.   I'm still trying to
figure out how tolerant my grey scale is.

By the way, the term "pinko socialist" has always been a term
complimentary to old fashioned purist socialists who, if
memory serve me correct, liked those old fashioned Retina
folding cameras.