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Modernism is profoundly determinist, rationalist, assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | Modernism is profoundly determinist, rationalist, assumes the world is therefore a static place which even the hardest problems can be solved — that machines can be built that can divine the answers to questions our mortal minds cannot handle, and in that sense is in equal parts utopian, delusional and ''lazy'': it believes that difficult stuff can all be solved without upsetting the dynamics of the system, and once solved we will all live happily ever after. | ||
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But with standardisation comes a loss of flexibility and accommodation: People are expected to adapt to the design imperatives of the scheme, rather that the scheme catering for the imperatives of the people. | |||