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“What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”
J. Patrick Patterson, October 1, 2026
" #KurtVonnegut (a former #InTheseTimes senior editor, by the way!) once told a story about refusing to buy 100 envelopes online: 'I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope,' he said. 'I meet a lot of people.' The moral, he said, was that we’re here to enjoy the world and the people in it, a facet of human life computers have changed. Vinyl is the envelope. It makes you leave the house. 'And, of course, the computers will do us out of that,' he said. But 'what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.' "
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https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-idea-vinyl-music-hipster-spotify-kurt-vonnegut
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