The shock of the new

Random thoughts on the impermanence of modernism.

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Clean lines and flat panels don't age well. They don't take dirt.

They don't benefit from survivor bias that syrips noise from signal.

Trite observations on the new:

The curse of novelty: what is new cannot last as the new. Either it dies, or it grows old.

So if your only quality is novelty, you must die. Conclusion: build with qualities other than novelty. If only novelty gets you out of the gate — enjoy your fifteen minutes.

See also

• Modernism