Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A Modern Version of "Forced Perfection"
I was thinking about John Rusken's writing on how man made things loss all their uniqueness when copied over and over again. Since the industrial revolution, the would has been rapidly been moving closer and closer to that concept. Today, we go into any fast food place and we can get the exact same thing as the person next to you. Yes, there is a little verity (if you want to exchange the pickles for the ketchup) but overall its the same as all the other meals that are ordered there. Same goes for the place I work at. I'm a cook at the Residence Inn and we use the same 2 week rotation with hardly no change in routine. All of our meals are prepared the exact same way and served the same way as we did the same day 2 weeks before. Getting a bigger picture, all of the Residence Inns are using the exact same line up for their meals as well. You can go to 2 different Residence Inns on the same day and see the exact same food. All uniqueness is completely lost. It makes me think how many other places do the exact same thing. (Again using food for an example) I look back at the places I have all ate at, and the ones that stick out the most were the ones that were different. It was something I either haven't seen before or never tried before. The makes me wonder if we made and sold something unique (just not food) would people flock to it because its different or would they reject it because its too different?
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