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FourWinds

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Re: A Word from George Orwell

Sep 06, 2002, 11:03

I am not trying to parade being a programmer as a great art or anything. And you're right the end product I produce for money is not that beneficial to society - certainly not to the society I want to be a part of.

However, claiming that putting together a magazine is creative is stretching the term to its limits. It is not creating it is manufacturing. There is a big difference in my own personal dictionary.

Mass production of anything is not creative. Laying out the original artwork or taking the photos for the mag or writing a report or interviewing someone is the creative part of the process, not printing and stapling millions of copies together.

You also said about putting notes in a package telling the end user about how much it really costs. This is something I mentioned earlier - you can only be creative in these industrialised jobs if you break the boss's laws and rules. You have to step outside the predefined role of the job to do it.

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