Waveform Plots Considered Harmful
Reply #23 – 2008-09-10 00:16:24
If this can only be justified on relativity and elitism, it's never going to punch the mainstream. What, are we going to pursue the Scientologist strategem, and get all sorts of celebrities to complain about how bad CDs sound nowadays? I'm simply saying that the "opinion" of the mainstream is just a copy of someone elses opinion. If you get enough hype going on, so that media-outlets tell the mainstream about the problem, it will suddenly as by magic notice it. But: The mainstream on its own, wont complain about that on its own - it does not create, it imitates. It has no own opinion and doesn't honestly want one. Are you really believing in the "common (non-)sense", "(un-)sensivity" and "(non-)self-confidence" of average joe? Does your average joe seem like someone who notices something unpopular on his own, and then starts to make unusual demands? Thats how it is currently, regardless of if you like that or not. If you want your "strategy" to work, it needs to include that aspect too. Else you're building on wishful-thinking. - Lyx P.S.:Here's a different example. We are compressing the night sky. Yes, we are. By outputting vast amounts of light into the sky, we in most urbanized countries have made almost the entire sky disappear. Only a low amount of handful of stars are still visible. Dozens of sky objects, which in the past were something normal and well known, are now unknown. This is something, which you CAN directly show another person. It's an issue which - similiar to in this community - is decried by lots of enthusiasts. Does your average joe care? Does he even consciously look at above anymore? Do you think the kids born in the last 15 years even have a sufficient comparision anymore? If you tell them about various sky objects, they react as if you're talking about aliens. However, asume the media would create a new nightsky-hype, thus suddenly making average joe be interested in it again. So all those buy googles and stuff - and one of the first enemies they will get to know - the biggest problem nowadays for skygazers - will be light pollution. And suddenly, there would be popular interest in fixing that (there are simple ways to fix it, and it even saves cash). But do you think anything like that will happen out of average joe by himself? Why would someone, who in the past never cared about the topic, suddenly be interested in it, by pure coincidence at the same time as the media report about it?