Jim, check out this article....
Prince Charles critical of new technology
Copyright c 1997 Nando.net
Copyright c 1997 Agence France-Presse
LONDON (April 30, 1997 11:26 a.m. EDT) - Britain's Prince Charles has warned that new technology is in danger of becoming the "eventual murderer of the soul of mankind," it was reported Wednesday.
Society was on the point of adopting "virtual reality ethics" at the expense of spiritual and traditional values, he said, adding that any civilisation needed a respect for tradition and a "sense of the sacred."
"To my mind tradition is not a man-made element on our lives -- it is a God-given awareness of natural rhythms and of a fundamental harmony," said the Prince of Wales in what he declared a "speech from the heart" at St. James' Palace in London.
At a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Prayer Book Society -- which campaigns for the use of the 1662 book of common prayer -- he also claimed the English language had descended into "a dismal wasteland of banality, cliche and casual obscenity."
"If we encourage the use of mean, trite, ordinary language, we encourage a mean, trite and ordinary view of the world we inhabit.
"Many people look in dismay at what has been happening to our language in the very place it evolved.
"They wonder what it is about our country and society that our language has become so impoverished, so sloppy and so limited -- that we have arrived at such a dismal wasteland of banality, cliche and casual obscenity."
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I'll tell you it's brains in charge like this that give Terrance allot of ammunition to work with. Excuse me but didn't he just cheat on his wife and get divorced because of it. What a hypocrite!
Michael
P.S. No that Col was no relation to me. At least that I know of. |
