ever thought about why Old-school is always better?
or let us frame it this way : why do we continuously make things worse?
think about it..
mobile phone : the new ones are more difficult to use, clumsy and weak. the old ones were brilliant (literal and otherwise).
cars : new ones aren't even nearly as fun as the old ones. to a family being driven around by an enthusiastic someone in one of the classic cars, the journey is in itself an adventure. in the new ones, everyone snores noisily and they are so quiet that u have no option but to listen to them.
furniture : the classic ones feel like nature spent several years growing over itself to give you nice wood that is then crafted by someone who puts all his energy and passion into it.. they make you feel special.. like you are worth all that trouble.
the new ones feel like someone stole a couple of metal walking sticks from helpless blind people who spent an afternoon sleeping on a park bench that are then crafted by a stingy person whose vision is compromised.
people : the new ones (everyone from the sniggering centers of laziness who surround you where ever you go to the engineers who always seem to make the wrong thing to the guy who spends evenings outside the college handing out leaflets to people who throw them 10 feet away from them instead of he himself throwing them all into the air) are all useless. the old ones have books written on them.. they have cool things named after them.. they made cooler statements too..
movies : i don't have to prove myself on this one do i?
clothes : the best selling clothes of today have ESTD.18xx or 19xx written on it. so, evidently, that was the good ol' days. the clothes most people wear today are torn (by a kid in some industrious little city in india) and faded.
i am not a 60 year old. but i do want to know what it would feel like to live in a world where everyone made sense.
help me out if u can..
o, and if u are the ghost of Darwin, i think we have a new theory to work on.. g3-408.. drop by..
Sunday, December 14, 2008
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I totally agree with you on this Hari. Old things are MUCH MUCH MUCH more better than the new things are. Things are so complex now. Things used to be so simple then. I have always wanted to live (grow up, rather) in the forties/fifties/sixties/seventies.
ReplyDelete"the classic ones feel like nature spent several years growing over itself to give you nice wood that is then crafted by someone who puts all his energy and passion into it.."
Well written :) I am reminded of the antique rusty-brown mahogany swing, that used to hold a prominent place in the halls of most of the pazhaya kaalathu (I love to say these two words "pazhaya kaalathu") houses
cars, furniture, most of the people i agree. clothes'movies and mobile phone, no always paambu!!
ReplyDeleteIf everyone made sense, everyone including God, then he wouldn't have created man. :)
@ nithya
ReplyDeleteyour comment on my post was better written that my post itself.. old houses are amazing. just living there makes you feel special
@ ryan
oldschool clothes are the good old jeans and t shirts.. not the ones that are supposed to be worn inside out
oldschool phones are phones. the new ones are unnecessarily complex.
if technology can make a phone small enough to fit into my ear or invisible completely, i'd take that. the reason why they don't make it any smaller is cause if it were, you'd keep it closer to you and thereby kill yourself (radiation).
old movies.. your call..
and u r probably right.. if god were any smarter, he wouldn't have created man. or maybe he got smart suddenly and created serial killers.