I wonder what happened to make that talent all dry up.
It's hard to say when the rot set in. There must be many factors contributing to it: Empire and British complacency- the feeling that we'd always be on top; the snobbery directed at the people who'd made it rich with 'new money' (of course, now they're our old money) leading to the idea that trade was a low and common activity. The loss of a generation of new ideas and talent in WW1.
And you're completely right about bad design being perpetuated by big companies, and that ties in with that musn't grumble attitude we're shackled with. It's so true that the overall attitude is 'don't bother complaining because it won't help'. The sad thing is it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Date: 2004-02-27 03:17 pm (UTC)It's hard to say when the rot set in. There must be many factors contributing to it: Empire and British complacency- the feeling that we'd always be on top; the snobbery directed at the people who'd made it rich with 'new money' (of course, now they're our old money) leading to the idea that trade was a low and common activity. The loss of a generation of new ideas and talent in WW1.
And you're completely right about bad design being perpetuated by big companies, and that ties in with that musn't grumble attitude we're shackled with. It's so true that the overall attitude is 'don't bother complaining because it won't help'. The sad thing is it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.