【答案解析】{{B}}Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer{{/B}} A number of people, by now, have told me that I could do better with a computer. My answer is that I am not going to buy it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones. The first is that I do not admire the computer manufacturers more than the energy industries. I have seen their advertisements, attempting to seduce struggling or failing farmers into the belief that they can solve their problems by buying yet another piece of expensive equipment. I am familiar with their propaganda campaigns that have put computers into public schools in need of books. I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything that does matter to me: peace, economic justice, ecological health, political honesty, family and community stability, good work and etc. My final and perhaps my best reason for not owning a computer is that I do not wish to fool myself. I disbelieve the assertion that I or anybody else could write better or more easily with a computer than with a pencil. I do not see why I should not be as scientific about this as the next fellow: when somebody has used a computer to write a piece of great works that is demonstrably better than that of Dante's and when this is demonstrably attributable to the use of a computer, then I will speak of computers with a more respectful tone of voice. To make myself as plain as I can, I have my standards for technological innovation in my own work.