> On Oct 8, 2016, at 12:46 PM, "j...@cimmeri.com" <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/8/2016 11:22 AM, Corey Cohen wrote: >>> On Oct 8, 2016, at 12:07 PM, "j...@cimmeri.com"<j...@cimmeri.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> The fact that a friggin' *movie* raises the value of something, also really >>> irks me. How did movies ever become the be-all, end-all? >>> >>> I'm sure others are irked as well by the intrusions of greed or >>> irrationality into what can otherwise be a pure, unadulterated, hobby. >>> Isn't it funny that the word "adult" is used in "adulterated" -- as if the >>> notion of adulthood renders things impure. Well, in this case, certain >>> forms of adulthood do due render this hobby impure. >>> >>> - J. >> I think you misunderstood my points. > > I actually completely understood them. Maybe you misunderstand mine. > > >> The hobby has already changed. > > Not for me it hasn't. You write of "the hobby" as a monolith. It's not > monolithic; there's more than one hobby (or outcome), circling around these > material items. In other words, there's these material items out there in > the marketplace (or that eventually reach a marketplace), and these items can > go down different roads depending on why they're purchased. There's *this* > particular hobbyist road, then there's the investment road, the museum road, > and so on. Some people also combine purposes. > > > >> Just like the car collecting, comic book collection and just about most >> other hobbies when they mature. The same type of people who complained >> about the price of an Xmen#1 because people would just buy and display them >> and not read them, complain when someone buys an ALTAIR to sit on their desk >> and doesn't turn it on. Better that than the garbage heap, without money >> coming into our hobby it would eventually die out and many artifacts would >> be lost to the dump. > > I think the people who complain about "Altairs just sitting on desks" might > be doing so for at least one reason being because a particular purpose seems > to violate the original spirit, intent, and purpose behind the creation. I > hear that a lot eg. "it's a shame it's just sitting there, not being used." > > It's when other purposes come in, and begin to make this hobby purpose more > difficult to engage in and "unobtainium", that the hobbyists lament. If > there were enough for everyone, then there'd be no complaining. > > > I partially disagree that money needs to come into *our* hobby to keep it > alive. Rather, I hold that money needs to go into *their* investment purpose > to keep THAT purpose alive. I think we'd do just fine, paying reasonable > amounts, to keep our hobby alive without these other purposes in the game. > > > - J. > > > > > >
I think we will just have to agree to disagree. Which is totally cool with me, each of us have a different opinion on this stuff. I have multiple collecting hobbies and they all resemble one another eventually. Cheers, Corey
