tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23293821.post7885767601677235688..comments2023-06-13T07:28:56.647-04:00Comments on Historic Stitcher: Do it Yourselfhistoricstitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17370128908373990078noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23293821.post-70688815878355397512007-12-04T04:07:00.000-05:002007-12-04T04:07:00.000-05:00I, too, couldn't agree more. I think part of the p...I, too, couldn't agree more. <BR/><BR/>I think part of the problem is that during the industrial revolution people went to work in factories in effect lowered the prices for machine-made commercial goods (by making them so efficiently) and simultaneously lost the time and skills required to make them at home. this started to drive things in this direction before the advertising boom even began. But I wouldn't go back in time because factory work is what brought working-class women outside of the home. NOT that factory work was an improvement, but it did begin the long, slow process of putting women in the public world and men getting used to the idea that that didn't make the world come to an end. <BR/><BR/>I think it's like how in Russia, since the market was legalized, all these people started buying LIPTON @$#%@#$% tea instead of the really good full-leaf tea you could get anywhere far cheaper, directly from China and India, because the fancy packaging was an end in itself, and because people assumed it had to actually be better because the price was higher. This principle was true all over, although I think in some small ways it's beginning to even out and people are *beginning* to be wiser consumers (after a whole lot of bad experiences). <BR/><BR/>I'm babbling, but I think what I wanted to say is that I wouldn't want to go back in time - there were issues with even pre-industrial commercial values and the social costs in economic systems that I wouldn't want to have back for anything - but I do think we have the opportunity *now* to make better choices than we've ever made before. I find the popularity of knitting incredibly encouraging in so many ways. And the internet, which reinforces knitting and all DIY by disseminating information, and also allows us to cut ourselves off from advertising if we really want to. Awesome. <BR/><BR/>But dammit, you're ahead of me on the blogging again. Must go blog!Kate A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04862446913952308018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23293821.post-41927305934026869032007-12-02T18:40:00.000-05:002007-12-02T18:40:00.000-05:00Amen and halleluhjah. Those "Tell her you love her...Amen and halleluhjah. <BR/><BR/>Those "Tell her you love her by spending three months' salary on a big, useless ROCK" commercials drive me UTTERLY INSANE!!!Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11710658334966849773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23293821.post-68811136711017590262007-11-30T16:09:00.000-05:002007-11-30T16:09:00.000-05:00Sing it sister! You are 100% correct.Sing it sister! You are 100% correct.froggiemeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08271814192238424709noreply@blogger.com