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To: JohnM who wrote (74737)	7/3/2008 10:27:18 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543090

I share your memory. And other historians have picked it up. amazon.com 'It was not all machinery that the so-called "Luddites" rebelled against; it was only those technological innovations "but all Machinery hurtful to Commonality".' With the rise of the machine age (imo) the Luddites could see the destruction not just of their work, but of their way of life- of the communion of the small collective, of the value of the individual- and they realized that some machines were more destructive to the collective than others. They were, imo, prescient, to realize that the machine age would grind up and spit out its workers. That they would be no more valued than a cog or a flywheel, and just as interchangeable. Artistry would cease to matter in the service to the machine.