"There is nothing passive about this forum for instance"
This is a forum hwre ideas are echanged - a little different than bleeping semi-literate half-dozen misspelt-word messages and very different from staring at a screen to enjoy folk song rather than sharing it face to face and going off to talk about it later
"Ewan welcomed new technology"
He most certainly did and used it brilliantly in the theatrical Festival of Fools but I dn't ever recall him using it to accompany narrative ballads
The internet was not the dangerous, even lethal place it has now become when he said what he said
Go look out the bullying suicides or the rapist creepy-creeps kids have to contend with now
Jim