we have no ability to see the defects in our life that affect us, define us, bias us, stop us, tantalise us, erode us, delight us...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
theModernismEffect
above you can see a photo taken from an angle that sees the topside of the bridge vertically. what is interesting here is the blue line across the bridge. government finds it necessary to put a blue line on that civil structure. that line has no help to the pedestrian and no effect at all to anything. so why is it there?
this i call modernismEffect: creating an image on the citizens that the rules, wherever you are, follows you. the government is there, you are never left alone. it is some kind of a label in your jeans, or the price sticker in your shoes. without that line it would be as like a jar on the shelf without any sticker. would you buy that from a super-market, a jar of peanut butter that have no labeling at all:))))
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when you rebel against the modernism effect, if you are not on your own, that is, if you and your comrades constitute a group, then at some point you create your own modernism effect. the group creates its rules and it tries to oppress the ones under its rule. this is how it goes, it is human nature, and what gaining power does to a rebellious movement. so, up with the modernism effect, until some other movement takes over.
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