Basically, today is too clinical. Everything is so engineered to perfection, it becomes rare to find faults, and errors when they do occur get fixed, or revised immediately. It's so autonymous, it is killing character.
Character being that of diversity and variation.
Like the food we eat. The architecture we move within. Roads we travel. TV shows we watch.
It's all slowly becoming functional over form.
I heavily leant on this debate to kingdom come all through my gcse art years, to a levels right into my architecture degree and into work in the office now.
Todays world is so clean-cut, the rules and everything is merging to this weird and horrid Utopian thing.
I know its far off, but that's how I see it. Diversity and variation IS the spice of life.
Contrast, whilst it can be awful, can also be a glorious thing.
Offtopic, but a sidethought into Utopia, what scares me is that if everything becomes equal, perfect, and completely efficient, what happens to desire? One might argue that you all equally progress exponentially for the good of everyone; or that it dwindles as people become acceptant of totallity and progress lacks need so you remain in limbo for eternity.
Back on topic, yeah, the old school days were exciting because of variation, and nothing was too perfect to be THAT predictable.
I still think manual gearsticks and clutch foot pedals should make a comeback.
More mistakes, more variation = unknown possibilities.
Jenson drives it like he owns it; Lewis drives it like he stole itEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/2011 12:32PM by danm.