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A little OT, but...
> Indeed, 'video' and 'photo-graphs' are also utterly inadequate as

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> compared to the original experience and should be shunned.  Indeed,

> the printed word itself is but a pale shadow of the original unspoken

> idea.

I disagree with this because it's comparing apples and oranges.

Video, photographs and recordings of music are self-contained works of

art which I believe can have no less value than the "original."

By the above rational, a musician performing a piece is just a "pale

shadow" compared to the original idea of the composer.  This discounts

interpretation and the creative genius of the musician, just like the

above discounts the creative genius of the photographer or

cinematographer.

And the printed word is something that got the human race to the age

where I can type this on a piece of plastic in Canada, and you can

read this on a screen somewhere half the world away a few seconds

later, I doubt unspoken ideas could be sufficiently preserved and

recreated to provide such progress without them being "recorded" in

some way or another.
> Personally I find life is far richer with all of the above.

Yes indeed!

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