flower trend
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- prodigalslacker0
sorry i went to nap. long night.
anyway king said it best, but yes... trends can be very, very bad. propagation of ideals in society is never a good thing, because it makes the end user less aware of everything that's out there. take music, for example. clear channel's close ties with teh bush administration (and the agreement to deregulate more by the fcc, hence allowing clear channel to expand) is making it harder for anyone clear channel doesnt want on the airwaves to get heard.
this makes for the big mess that is pop culture. every now and again there's that breakthrough that causes a following, but the following once again is the trend, while the breakthrough self-destructs (see: nirvana).
and for my book i used different styles, so long as they adhered to the concept of the chapter. the concept of the book is that it's a self-portrait; i took things that were important to me and i wrote and designed about them. when there are things that i dont care if people understand word for word, i would use a more abstract design method. where it was my political tirade against george bush and i wanted to show that i did a lot of research, i kept the text clean.
following trends is a bad thing if you do it for the reason that you don't actually know you're following a trend. if you're aware of the world around you, and you are a part of a trend, i think that's different. just because a friend of mine has been wearing chuck taylor's and goodwill t-shirts for years... does that mean she's only cool while the trend lasts in the aesthetic fashionable sense?