When The New Gets Old Really Fast
@arthurchappell (44941)
Preston, England
October 17, 2015 7:01pm CST
In art and architecture I always find calling anything new, neo, or prefixing it with ‘post’, as in post-modernist dates it as someone immediately counter-weights it. It is just putting old wine in new bottles much of the time. So-called Neo-Nazis are just Nazis in fresh uniforms and just as dangerous if they ever gain power.
Older places get labelled as quaint or traditional or ye olde and traditional or vintage, classic, classical, etc. such labels are often so arbitrary. Eventually what is now seen as new is going to seem old. Will we still call it new in 2,000 years. Christianity was new once.
Arthur Chappell – new, improved deluxe edition.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Oct 15
I see your ? and raise you this. I made it for posts sometime last year, lol
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Oct 15
You drew a better ? than I did 
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Oct 15
@arthurchappell I played with paint for awhile.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Oct 15
We were kinda talking about this yesterday at work, how classic cars used to kinda mean more than 20 years old....but that definition makes Pinto's classics so....
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Oct 15
yes classic has to have a timeless quality or it would include the Trabant and the Hillman Imp
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Oct 15
by the time you get a new computer home and unboxed it's already out of date to a new model
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
18 Oct 15
yes the pace of change is frightening and in many ways out of control - Jethro Tull really started it all with his seed drill at the start of the industrial revolution. I blame him.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
18 Oct 15
I like the term "improved" better, I think. It makes more sense to make things better and better rather than creating "new" things only to make them "old" the next day.
