Does the trade off of using different materials and processes to increase efficiency play into your analysis at all? People committed much more time and attention to what they did in the past to turn out much better quality work. As the world grew and became more interconnected all that began to fade and was traded off for efficiency and cost.
In my opinion people were more soulful in the past and more of their inner self was translated into their work. The time and attention it takes to put your soul into your work has diminished since and so has the quality of work.
This may not explain all of what you speak of but a great deal of it, in my opinion.
Yes, of course that plays into it to a certain degree.
I knew a guy who did some of the millwork on the QE2 - it too was a long, tedious process, held up by the money on the back end to fully express that craft. No doubt nothing is absolute, and there are probably some modern examples that put a pin in ANY absolute statement or narrative. But we're all well aware by now that not everything is black and white - as we are trying to distinguish shades of gray...
Expediency and economy doesn't explain everything. Neither does the whole Donkeys Inc working 14 hrs a day, using population numbers that THEY give for a given region or city vs the number of absolute palaces in those areas. As someone who has home construction and stone masonry in his blood, that was my initial consideration as well...until I really started digging and holding things up against the light of reality.
I mean does anyone here really believe the cock and bull stories regarding starforts? Especially this one comprised of over 16 million bricks
The only thing that I am certain of is that we have been lied to on a consistent basis regarding our past. It's quite interesting when you actually dig - and not just wait to be spoon fed or for overton agreement - and you find out who's behind much of the phuckery.
UNESCO - Part of the UN bastards, is responsible for messing with countless antiquities that belong to US, the People and not them. They go in an molest these sites, remove important details and artifacts and do it under the guise of "preserving and protecting" things that have been right there in the open for what they tell us, thousands of years. It's quite interesting when you look at the areas that they bombed the shit out of in both WW1 and WW2 and what was there...especially places like Stalingrad and that cute little stunt they pulled in Dresden.
It continues to this day...(Iraq...Syria - right now as we speak) Gobekli Tepe? Yeah...they're fking that up royal as we speak right now. They put gas station roofing over it for crying out loud. Supposedly it's 15,000 years old, we we need these UNESCO aholes to "keep it safe" for us. You start digging on UNESCO, you find out they are involved in all sorts of crimes against humanity, including - get this - Taking control of Easter Island...(and ultimately setting fire to the island in 2019)
When the Chilean government annexed Easter Island in 1888, it was leased to Enrique Merlet, who sold his control to the Williamson-Balfour Company; they in turn created a subsidiary called Compañía Explotadora de la Isla de Pascua (CEDIP), which ran Easter Island as a sheep farm. The company constructed a boundary wall around Hanga Roa and sheep rearing structures. During the company's rule and for several years after, the Rapa Nui people were confined to Hanga Roa, which they were not allowed to leave without permission.
Does the trade off of using different materials and processes to increase efficiency play into your analysis at all? People committed much more time and attention to what they did in the past to turn out much better quality work. As the world grew and became more interconnected all that began to fade and was traded off for efficiency and cost.
In my opinion people were more soulful in the past and more of their inner self was translated into their work. The time and attention it takes to put your soul into your work has diminished since and so has the quality of work.
This may not explain all of what you speak of but a great deal of it, in my opinion.
Yes, of course that plays into it to a certain degree.
I knew a guy who did some of the millwork on the QE2 - it too was a long, tedious process, held up by the money on the back end to fully express that craft. No doubt nothing is absolute, and there are probably some modern examples that put a pin in ANY absolute statement or narrative. But we're all well aware by now that not everything is black and white - as we are trying to distinguish shades of gray...
Expediency and economy doesn't explain everything. Neither does the whole Donkeys Inc working 14 hrs a day, using population numbers that THEY give for a given region or city vs the number of absolute palaces in those areas. As someone who has home construction and stone masonry in his blood, that was my initial consideration as well...until I really started digging and holding things up against the light of reality.
I mean does anyone here really believe the cock and bull stories regarding starforts? Especially this one comprised of over 16 million bricks
The only thing that I am certain of is that we have been lied to on a consistent basis regarding our past. It's quite interesting when you actually dig - and not just wait to be spoon fed or for overton agreement - and you find out who's behind much of the phuckery.
UNESCO - Part of the UN bastards, is responsible for messing with countless antiquities that belong to US, the People and not them. They go in an molest these sites, remove important details and artifacts and do it under the guise of "preserving and protecting" things that have been right there in the open for what they tell us, thousands of years. It's quite interesting when you look at the areas that they bombed the shit out of in both WW1 and WW2 and what was there...especially places like Stalingrad and that cute little stunt they pulled in Dresden.
It continues to this day...(Iraq...Syria - right now as we speak) Gobekli Tepe? Yeah...they're fking that up royal as we speak right now. They put gas station roofing over it for crying out loud. Supposedly it's 15,000 years old, we we need these UNESCO aholes to "keep it safe" for us. You start digging on UNESCO, you find out they are involved in all sorts of crimes against humanity, including - get this - Taking control of Easter Island...(and ultimately setting fire to the island in 2019)
RE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson-Balfour_Company & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchcape_plc etc...It goes far and wide...