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The Canyon Man And His Fight Against Modern Technology
Nowadays, it’s pretty much a given that we have entered what can only be considered the modern age (though the so-called ‘modern age’ supposedly started in 1700). In fact, modernity is everywhere one cares to look, and even the Amish are getting in on the act, putting new ultralight horseshoes on their animals that promise 50 miles per bag of oats, at minimum.
However, there’s one guy who is still refusing to leave the Age of Sail and get with at least the Age of Aquarius, let alone the age of digital cellular communication. Known as ‘Canyon Man, ‘ this guy can be seen working under his car every Sunday morning, surrounded by a cloud of noxious exhaust fumes whenever it’s running. If he has his way, he’ll even be buried in that car, sad to say.
Indeed, he’s running around with a leather watch band and an old analog watch that was a gift to him from his father when he graduated from elementary school back when Lyndon Johnson was running the show down in Washington DC. And it’s not all about nostalgia or his father, either; this guy really doesn’t know what to do with a digital watch and would probably run in horror from it if you got him one.
This man is also completely horrified by the thought of looking at any sort of television that doesn’t come wrapped in a huge wooden console that probably was made from the oak timbers of a Revolutionary war-era sailing ship that once carried John Paul Jones around, with an equally elderly picture tube, to boot. It’s kind of disquieting to think of this, though it’s also very true.
No, something like a custom LCD (liquid crystal display, for those out there equally as technologically-challenged as Canyon Man is) for a television will never feature in his theater of the mind. In fact, that’s probably a good chance that the words ‘videocassette recorder’ would be just as alien to him as ‘digital video disc’ also is.
Now that digital video signals have completely taken over the airwaves, it’s probably a fair bet that Canyon Man is sitting in his house pounding on the side of that big old console TV wondering how to get all that snow off the picture. If the words ‘digital converter box’ ever pass his lips, it will be time to wonder if the Second Coming has arrived. Certainly, a TV with LED backlight technology will forever be beyond his grasp, both intellectually and morally.
The question, then about whether or not modern technology will overwhelm the Canyon Man is an important one, if not for him than for the rest of us who have to put up with him and his obstinate refusal to get out of those disco bellbottoms and get with the real world. The blue smoke from the car is bad enough, but the wide-collared shirts and leisure suits are going to need to go.
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