Tuesday, December 05, 2017
Gold to gold 2
Looked at a 1968 issue of PopTronics from American Radio History.
The issue contains an article that runs directly into previous item, where I proposed that Russia should do for the Olympics what it's already doing for economics. Reinvent, secede from EU/US/UK.
The 1968 article focuses on Soviet electronics.
First, this is a good example of another point I made recently...
Radio fox-hunt. Geocaching before GPS. Note that the participants were not locked into gulags; they were rolling their own transmitters, wandering around fields, and transmitting without a license. American techies knew that this sort of thing was common, so we were immune to the Deepstate media portrayal.
Since I'm packing all of my recent themes into this item, let's add the rights to duties theme.
Instead of begging for the "right" to participate in IOC, Russia should be carrying on its own traditional DUTY of sports. The PURPOSE of sport is to prepare men for war. In a technical era, war requires a wide variety of skills. Direction-finding is a radio skill that played a major part in both WW1 and WW2. Turning it into a sport helps to select and develop a group of youngsters who are ready for DUTY when real war comes.
Especially among techies, Cold War I was distinctly different from the current Cold War II. Tech types had strong reservations about going to war. Why? Biggest reason is obvious. Older tech types in the '50s had served in WW2 and knew what war was like. They didn't want another war. War experience didn't affect the younger tech types, including me. Why were 1967 techies so much less SWARMY than 1917 and 2017 techies? Best guess: Shortwave. Hams and SWLs had direct contact with foreigners, including Soviet Bloc foreigners. We knew that Russian techies didn't get to "vote", but we also knew that Russian techies got more respect and better treatment than our techies. We also knew that Russians were not ferocious war-seeking monsters, which made us wonder about the standard depiction by our mass media.From the article: Russia doesn't need to reinvent the proper Olympic spirit. Russia was already there. Here's a Russian techie sport pursued with the same national pride and pro-am approach as the Olympic sports:
Radio fox-hunt. Geocaching before GPS. Note that the participants were not locked into gulags; they were rolling their own transmitters, wandering around fields, and transmitting without a license. American techies knew that this sort of thing was common, so we were immune to the Deepstate media portrayal.
Since I'm packing all of my recent themes into this item, let's add the rights to duties theme.
Instead of begging for the "right" to participate in IOC, Russia should be carrying on its own traditional DUTY of sports. The PURPOSE of sport is to prepare men for war. In a technical era, war requires a wide variety of skills. Direction-finding is a radio skill that played a major part in both WW1 and WW2. Turning it into a sport helps to select and develop a group of youngsters who are ready for DUTY when real war comes.Labels: From rights to duties, Гром победы
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