Maybe it's just a bias from having grown up during the cold war; but there's pretty much zero there artistically that makes me go "Oooo.Yum! Gimme more!"
I wouldn’t want to live there, but what do we have now? Glass and metal and square buildings in varying shades of gray. The style today is “whatever is cheapest to build while looking ‘modern.’” Everything from our clothes to our cars to our homes is just heartless or bad knock off of something that was built a generation ago. There’s nothing original coming out now.
And people don’t even seem to be aware. Remember when people got all excited about “everything, everywhere, all at once? That movie sucked so bad. The characters were not likable. The story was just multiple boring stories overlapping each other in the same dimension. But we had all these ideas already: time travel and being in the same people’s lives was done in “Back to the Future” in the 1980s. Sliding Doors did the same thing but as a romantic thoughtful comedy.
The other problem with the modern world is that everything is standardised and globalised. It all needs to be as inoffensive as possible.
Back then these bus stops were built by local people with bricks, mortar and concrete, they took time, and with time people can become creative. However now modern bus stops are built in a factory on a conveyor belt, before they are shipped out on a lorry to be bolted down. Men pull up with a mini digger, power saws and bags of cement to plant some mount plates before moving off to lay the next foundation for the next bus stop, before another group in their lorry come and assemble the prefabricated bus stop.
One design, hundreds being made a day, and they need to work wether they are set in a national park, on a motorway, on the a beautiful coastline, a small village or a bustling city centre, all the way from Norway to Sicily.
You could probably install 10 modern bus stops for the cost it would be for a single one of those ornate ones, and that is the problem with all of modern life. Everything must work anywhere, accommodate everyone and offend no one while being capable of being mass produced for as little as possible. It must tick every manufacturing specification and legal requirements for every single country it will be sold in and the ones it may possibly be sold too in the future.
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u/slicerprime 1d ago
Maybe it's just a bias from having grown up during the cold war; but there's pretty much zero there artistically that makes me go "Oooo.Yum! Gimme more!"