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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by pavs on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:09PM (#1255225)
I think you misunderstood, or it was poorly phrased. But I think the point he was trying to make is that, not that everything in the world is amazing, but rather we live in a time where we (generally speaking) take everything for granted and don't take the time (at least occasionally) to appreciate things for what they are.

I think the keyword here is "appreciation". We snap too quickly if things doesn't always work as they were intended to. Neil deGrasse Tyson made an interesting point about how people would have reacted to iphone if you showed it to them 10 years ago[1]. Yet we bitch and moan about flash and multi-task and copy&paste on iPhone (albeit, some are very legitimate criticism to some extend).

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xag3oOzvU68#t=2m18s

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by jasonlotito on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:18PM (#1255239)
Except, appreciate doesn't provide progression. All that progression that we are supposed to appreciate isn't built on appreciation.

200 years ago, crossing the entire country was a bigger undertaking then it was 50 years ago, and 50 years ago it was a bigger undertaking then it is now. If 50 years ago, people merely appreciated, progress wouldn't have happened. Rather, people weren't happy it was fast enough.

As for why we bitch and moan? Because we care. It's not new, people have been complaining for ages. It's just with the internet, it's easier then ever to find people to bitch and moan with, or about, or to.

However, it was funny. =)

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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by pavs on Saturday April 10, 2010 @12:28PM (#1255255)
I agree with your point. However appreciating something doesn't mean you have to stop doing everything and marvel at its beauty. I believe progression is a result of appreciation (from the person who is involved in creating it), not exclusively from nagging from consumers (a bit of a generalization maybe).
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Re:"We live in an amazing world and it's wasted on the crapp... by jasonlotito on Monday April 12, 2010 @10:37AM (#1259199)
True. I was too black and white. Good points. =)
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