Vice.com writer Caroline Haskins expels a lengthy screed damning Apple’s Airpods as a tragedy — “the future fossils of capitalism.” Stephen Green, Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott, school this Leftist Luddite in the miracle of free markets.
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Apple Airpods Tragedy: Cursing the Future Fossils of Capitalism
Vice.com writer Caroline Haskins expels a lengthy screed damning Apple’s Airpods as a tragedy — “the future fossils of capitalism.” Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott schools this Leftist luddite in the miracle of free markets.
23 replies on “Apple Airpods Tragedy: Cursing the Future Fossils of Capitalism”
I can’t remember the last time I pondered what sort of elaborate setup it would take to make referring to your fans as “flotsam n’ jetsam” acceptable to all of them. Nice job.
Well, it was invented by DARPA, so… *shrug*
I’ve always thought these high and mighty people overflowing with moral superiority are wrong wrong wrong. They tout that they drive electric cars or bicycle to work to reduce their supposed carbon footprint. But did these vehicles sprout from the ground? Of course not! They came from factories most likely powered by coal/nuclear/natural gas! When these environmental crybabies start living without anything manufactured using fossil fuels (i.e., living in caves, growing their own food, wearing mud and leaves), then I may start listening. Probably not, but it will be fun to watch.
I love the internet. W/O the internet, I woulda been unemployed for the last 22 years.
Or, at least, still on the huff&grunt crew.
One of the best Steven Greene tirades in a while. I love a good tirade.
The music queues …
“I… love a tirade …’
Isn’t almost all of that a description of solar panels?
Imagine 200 years ago, you lived in a tent, hunted bison on foot, and recalled the lost ancients who built mud huts in caves (now called the Mesa Verde National Park). Then invaders brought metal firearms, great steel wheels propelled by steam-powered sorcery.
Bring on the new sorcery of earbuds without the cultural devastation of the last century.
“There’s lithium in there and a variety of other chemicals that never really go away”
Yes, this is true, however before it was “in there”, it was naturally occurring in the environment. Because we have concentrated it we have to be careful with it, but WE NOW KNOW WHERE IT IS. Yep, it’s a risk, but if we didn’t take risks, we would still be swinging from the trees. Is that the ultimate goal of environmentalism, to see us swinging from the trees again? Sheesh, the final payoff of leftist regressiveism.
Shh–you don’t want to give them any ideas…
1. 1000 years? I just watched an episode of Time Team where they found intact cremation urns from the Bronze Age. Are we now going to wage a campaign against ceramics? Because they can last four or five thousand years. Or ten or twenty. And bones!
2. Archaelogists love rubbish dumps. They will be tickled pink to find these things 2000 years from now. Because it’s highly unlikely that they will find many. Not because they’ll deteriorate (though they will), but because sometime during the next 2000 years, someone is going to come up with ways to make a fortune recycling what’s in our landfills, even if it’s just metal and mineral reclamation.
I’ve thought of this a few times in the last year or so, but I remember reading (I think) a sci fi type story (or maybe something approaching journalism back when that was still a thing) discussing mining dumps for all of the metal and other rarer earth heavy metals we used to throw out when they finally broke, and then when we replaced old “junk” with newer, fancy flashy modern tech.
I just can’t remember what it was I read.
Steve skipped the “8 track” and went straight to the Sony Walkman. I still have some 8 Tracks and an 8 track player.
And before 8 Tracks, there was reel to reel tape, which was developed by Ampex (owned by Bing Crosby, I believe) who found you could record sound cheaper and more effectively with metal oxide coated, cellophane tape than you could on a strand of wire, which was the result of the realization that electrical signals could be magnetically recorded onto steel wire, an outgrowth of radio technology.
Yep, I forgot about those, we had that too, but my parents listen to them more than us kids. Great memories!
Dictaphone was still using wire recorders into the 60’s and not sure, but maybe the 70’s.
Scott’s opening puts me in mind of the fabulous musical number “Tragedy, we’re talking tragedy” by that great musical blunder PDQ Bach–
https://youtu.be/0XWghEPH8b8?t=162
I love that SO MUCH. Thank you for the ear worm! (Lost the CD in Harvey.) “That’s why they call this thing a T-R-A-G-E-D-Y.”
Haha–you’re very welcome. And I’m sorry to hear that you lost the CD–especially as I expect you lost a whole bunch more in Harvey. Hope things are going okay now for you!
Yes, we are okay now, thanks. There is nothing like an experience like that to rearrange one’s priorities! And to learn that all those trite sayings about experiences like that are trite precisely because they are true.
I thought instantly of the Bee Gees song. Heh.
The post I made on Youtube…
People like Caroline Haskins is a direct example of why we need more insane asylums. These nut jobs are walking around with nothing better to do than spread literary vomit all over any medium that can house it.
My thought processes as I clicked on the video: “Meh. Not a topic I’m dying to hear about, but I’ll watch because…the RA crew.”
After hearing Steve’s timeline of winning capitalism; “Bravo! THAT was worth the price of admission. Scott, you might as well end the segment now. It’s peaked.”
After Scott’s closing: “Dayum! He brought it home again. Never should have doubted the King of Closings. The guy has skillz! If only it wasn’t Members Only I’d share the hell out of this one!”
After realizing that I received a YouTube notification about the video, thinking that meant it was public, checking and finding out it is: “Oh, Joyous Day! The Right Angle guys are beginning to read the members’ minds! They are awesome!”