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Originally Posted by kronique
If we never made those changes, would we ever know if they will be good or bad ? or provide a positive result ? Sometimes changes bring out many results that are unexpected but positive in their use...a case of serendipity as they say!
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kronique,
Ah! The first flaw in your argument shows through! Why make changes unless you
know the outcome will be positive? If, as you seem to advocate, you change for change's sake and hope, in a Micawberish way, that things will turn out fine there is a very real chance that things will get not just worse but much worse! Then what do you do? Change back? Make more untried changes?
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the aesthetic value has received a boost
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The second flaw, perhaps. Who are you (or I for that matter) to judge aesthetic value? It is a purely subjective opinion. You seem to like it, I am neutral, someone else may dislike it. One man's meat is another man's poison.
What is interesting (he said, contemplating the fact that the only use of the old is to serve as an example of what not to do in your youth to the young) is that earlier this evening I was watching TV and a commercial came on using what was obviously regarded as a really innovative style. Sadly this modernity was wasted on me as I thought 'that is so 1960s'. And the moral of that story is 'what goes round, comes round'.
We're getting quite cerebral. Perhaps this should be in the Salon.
EDIT: And you didn't answer my three questions.
Michael