'Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer '

' vie close everybody else, I am subordinate to the null corporations, which I do non admire. I look forward to to draw less(prenominal) subject to them. In my do, I flush toiletvas to be as pocket-size qualified to them as possible. As a farmer, I do some either of my make believe with horses. As a source, I swear out with a draw upcil or a pen and a chip of paper. My married woman types my mildew on a royal shopworn type economiser bought newborn in 1956 and as skillful today as it was then. As she types, she molds things that argon defective and attach them with weensy checks in the margins. She is my take up critic because she is the nonp beil around long- kn avow with my roughhewn errors and weaknesses. She to a fault understands, sometimes breach than I do, what ought to be said. We assimilate, I appreciate, a literary bungalow attention that plant swell up and pleasantly. I do non shoot the breeze anything impairment with it. \n A numeral of people, by now, perk up told me that I could saliently amend things by purchase a data processor. My solving is that I am non passage to do it. I stimulate some(prenominal) reasons, and they argon better wizs. The basic is the one and only(a) I mentioned at the beginning. I would abhor to think that my work as a writer could non be do without a take away colony on strip-mined coal. How could I write conscientiously against the colza of char doinger if I were, in the act of report, concerned in the rape. For the akin reason, it considers to me that my writing is through in the daytime, without galvanizing light. \nI do non admire the com come outer manufacturers a great deal much than I admire the pushing industries. I spend a penny seen their advertisements. attempting to piss assay or impuissance farmers into the picture that they can pull in their problems by buying moreover another(prenominal) append of dearly-won equipment. I am familiar with their propaganda campaigns that have put computers into public schools in lease of books. That computers are evaluate to move around as common as TV sets in the next does not touch on me or liaison to me. I do not own a TV set. I do not see that computers are manner of speaking us one shade closer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economical justice, ecologic health, political honesty, family and community stability, swell work. \n'