Old things are better because the Chaos has worn against it and it has been shown for what it is.
*ahem*
teach me your ways o' wise one
Final nostalgia bull, good old things better since they have been refined and proven.
it s good because your new shoes is a cheap hack made in chi-
Maybe the dark is from your eyes.
You know you've got such dark eyes!
7 all the be'er to unsee you
Old things are better because they haven't been replaced by cheap limitations to push you towards (((communism)))
>>9
I live in the former Eastern Bloc. This is really happening. Cheap capitalist commodities fall apart after a single use while the good old Soviet goods seem indestructible and are passed on to the younger generations as family heirlooms.
Read Rene Guenon's "The Reign of Quanitity and the Sign of the Times"
>>11
Okay, acquired. Let's see...
>>11
I understand the necessity in being specific about language, but such specificity demanded in the first FOUR chapters of this book leads me to wonder, "why bother reading this?"
To be fair I wasn't particularly concerned with the main thread topic anyway.
At the moment I'm not even sure what one could get out of it.
Maybe by seeing things more clearly within the 'proper' definitions of quantity and quality could one... I don't know.
I'm sure there's something you could get out of it with some dedication.
At the moment it just seems depressing and pointless to mull over.
Maybe when I was still in a mood to read ramblings of other philosophers I would've continued to read it.
Not anymore.
Well, I tried. There you go.
You could suppose the main topic is depressing and pointless to mull over, too! A match made in heaven.
> 13
I appreciate you gave it a shot. It was my favorite read from 2020, and I think it captures the spirit of the OP.
But yeah, it is overlong and could probably be compressed quite a bit. It's very conversational, like from another era. Also: French.
Anyway, quantitative thinking and quantitative organization of matter is the key to why things are becoming more and more crappy (a.ka. quality is disappearing).
in art more is always better
>>16
but less is more!
>>17 trust me less is more is less. more is more is more, more or less.
>>1
Like old-time history?
https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2022/01/there-is-no-word-for-parent-of-dead.html
True in entertainment industry, e.g music
God is oldest of all
No. I'd rather stick with Coomaraswamy. Guenon is dull.
Old kungfu master
https://youtu.be/EG0PRVLp1iE
Old things are better
This perception could be caused by survivorship bias.
Old things are better because of coproeconomics (https://2k.livejournal.com/520078.html?nojs=1 , I've read it in Google Translate).
Bakery
Our most recent Marrickville Vietnamese meal was desserted by a trip down the road to Goodwood Bakeshop, a new-ish bakery offering an assortment of savoury and sweet pastries as well as a range of breads baked on premises. Despite their popularity and a small line down the street, our experience was a festival of speed, with good clarity of displays (sans pricing), a limited and focused offering, and a lack of seating all contributing to fast service.
My first and favourite bite from Goodwood was of their Miso Peanut Butter Cookie ($4), a rich and buttery cookie with a soft centre and crunchy exterior, with umami miso and peanut butter flavours that were delicious and most importantly not too sweet. The light coating of roasted sesame seeds on the superior surface of this cookie served to enhance its Asian-ness, making it overall a good cookie that I would recommend to an Asian or non-Asian friend.
The aforementioned peanut butter cookie was eaten on the street outside the bakery, though the four other sweet treats that we tried were eaten at a secondary location.
The Apple Cardamom Hand Pie ($8) was my first non-cookie bite, and sadly too sweet for my taste. I enjoyed the multi-layered pie crust, but felt that the sticky, sweet filling was a bit overpowering of the whole.
I enjoyed the croissant portion of the Lemon & Hazelnut Twice Baked Croissant ($8), with its nice and crispy crust and buttery interior folds, but again felt that the additions, in particular the lemon marmalade filling, was too sweet for my liking.
At the risk of repeating myself, the Pecan Cardamom Orange Scroll ($8) was again too sweet for my liking. The pastry of this scroll was appropriately dense, and I enjoyed the spicy orange and cardamom flavour and generous helping of pecans within. This would’ve been a winner, in my opinion, if the top layer of icing sugar had been left out.
After hearing me complain about the last three pastries, you will be surprised to read of my thorough enjoyment of this vanilla slice($8). This slice offered a reprieve of the sugar load from our previous entries, with an unusually thick and viscous custardy filling complete with black dots, the universal sign of vanilla excellence. While the pastry wasn’t paradigm changing, the filling was in my opinion quite special and most importantly “not-too-sweet”. Excellent.
OVERALL THOUGHTS
The majority of what I had at Goodwood Festival of Sweetness was too sweet for my liking. As always, it’s possible that my preferences in terms of pastries are culture-bound, as “not-too-sweet” is used as a common phrase to denote praise of a dessert in Chinese culture. I’d like to come back for some savoury treats that will hopefully be not-too-salty.
old things aren't better its just new things are completely plastic...maybe some man made bio engineered aluminum if you're lucky