Materials Man

ya beauty, my son who is 27 does not know what a steam punk is, so for once I’m ahead of the game. Only because I heard the tail end of the radio cafe program on radio Scotland regarding steam punks. Intrigued I listened as I drove from the cursed contract on the A7, well there was a dawning realism that I may and my wife may belong to this sub-culture called steam punk!! Why ? because we both mend and make things, but don’t most households? Like a drop of mercury (could sue schools for that now) I can’t put my finger on steam punks, except for a strong anarchist purpose running through it. And conventional non challenging societal systems guy that i am there is a waking resemblance of an anarchist in me. The banking bail out is incensing me and i know it is necessary for the wider economy, but where is our leadership? we have been well and truly reamed by the “establishment”, going wider so has the planet by industry and our demands for “goods” ever cheaper. Does this make me a steam punk? I’m going to say yes, as I believe challenges to any system is good.
On a relevant theme, a book titled ” the shock of the old” technology and global history since 1900 by David Edgerton is a steam punk book but i bet the author is unaware it is.