[HerenIstarion]

I remember reading som shor novel by (Bradbury? Vonnegut? anyone else? Well, that's not essential) about a guy smuggling a wooden stool in subway, for the law prohibits production (and use) of things that can last more than few days The law is enforced by advertising companies. We by and by are heading towards such a society (why should my PC be out of date, whem I upgraded the insides this spring only? see the point?) The stream of our lives runs faster as time goes by, and there aro no elven rings left to preserve, but "beat of hammers, clink of trowels, and the creak of wheels" only.

Not that I am not grateful for such a wondrous thing as internet is, and there are other things both profitable and more or less harmless, but consequences... I don't remember exact quote, but Lewis once said something like "When humanity wins final battle against nature, it will lose ultimately, for there will be no humanity left" He applied the thing to growing control of selected minority over forming of mentality and outlook of the rest of us. He said it back in 40s, but now, with all this cloning experiments and what not the whole thing looks even dreader. Scientists sometimes sound like if they were talking about furniture they are going to produce, not about human beings. But such a topic can take me way to far. So I'm stopping here, til the thing is still more or less related to Tolkien (who disliked so called "modernity" AFAIK)