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2000-05-16 17:35:37+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Columbine realizes that we've become a nation of spectators. For me, a recent reminder of this came when I moved my TV into another room for a party and never moved it back. Now it's not an easy distraction while I'm eating or doing any of those other things in the main part of the house, and I became more conscious of how much entertainment I was consuming rather than providing. But for a harsh reminder, go look at the living rooms of your grandparents if they're still alive. How many people that you know actually have the skills to make that old upright piano sing any more? And yet before radio that's what people listened to after dinner, which meant in any random gathering it was expected that there'd be at least one decent pianist.

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