It's not art, it's business Mike. Capitalism doesn't know from Art except as a tax break or an investment. They are the ultimate Philistines.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: Manufacturing returns to the US? > Surely not this kind of manufacturing. No. Most of those cars epitomized "tacky" before TV elevated the word from the rural south to global slang. But at least they had audacity (or, better, chutzpah). Cars for the last couple of decades, with the possible exception of Chrysler's PT Cruiser, have all looked like brightly painted cow-flops. But then, my mechanic tells me that the PT cruiser has a cam/valve design flaw such that the predictable failure of a $20 belt can trash the engine. And those cars of 50+ years ago weren't strategic regulatory game pieces, either. The PT Cruiser reportedly was carefully designed to meet the regulatory specs for "light truck" in order to jigger Chrysler's fuel consumption statistics. IMHO, that jiggering with the fuel efficiency stats is yet another little factoidal instance of the growing complexity catastrophe. Is there any way that any one could infer that particular design criterion from looking at a specimen of the car? (I'll have to ask my mechanic if he knows that.) There's a principle there, somehow, that I can't quite pin down. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
