Crafts Collapse
Thinking out loud
Unlike most of the authors of the Medium, I live in St. Petersburg, Russia. I was born here and have practically lived in this city all my life. But I have visited many places in the world, and I can say for sure that life in St. Petersburg is a kind of plagiarism of life in the USA.
These are the same insane traffic jams as in New York, these are such insane individualism and selfishness, the complete absence of altruism, everyone “pulls” for themselves and see nothing around them except the money earned in one way or another.
But all this, of course, is not at the expense of their talents, but it is through actual plagiarism from abroad, and most of all from the United States. You have Amazon, here we have Ozon, you have Google, here we have Yandex, etc. There is practically nothing truly native, except for Russian Vodka and Russian Matryoshka.
A life here allows you to observe life all over the world, often without traveling abroad, which is now generally exceedingly difficult due to the epidemic. But this is just preface, a fairy tale — ahead.
So, I walk the streets of my hometown and every year I am more and more surprised at the significant impoverishment of brands in various types of crafts. Everywhere I see Ozon, Yandex: Yandex Taxi, Yandex Go, Yandex Delivery, etc. It is a complete analogy to Google, which has long turned from a great team of programmers into a crazy conglomerate of holders of anything. I’m not even talking about Amazon, whose owner has already gone mad and is engaged in launching rockets to Mars, the same Pay-Pal is doing hell knows — from electric vehicles to some absolutely senseless space projects.
Microsoft bought Skype and messed it up, Facebook bought WhatsApp for some reason, etc. In short, all these Yandexs, Ozons, Amazons, Googles and others upper on the list, without modifying anything to the perfect functioning of their own original craft, start very different crafts and only spoil them.
Here it is appropriate to recall the Russian proverb — Do not expect a good product if a shoemaker bakes pies and a confectioner sews boots. Ha-ha-ha …
Precisely because now, there are crazy conglomerates that have ceased to be Real artisans who Perfectly Knew Their Business, everything began to be done very, very badly. It is extremely difficult now to expect something truly ideal and well-made from any of the manufacturers of this or that product.
This is incredibly sad. Once upon a time, at the dawn of the Industrial Era, an artisan so valued his honor as a manufacturer of the best product that he was ready to give even his life for this honor. Now all these Yandex-Google do not care about anything, their main task is to “do money” for their own crazy ideas, which are not needed by any of the normal people!
So, good gentlemen, do you like the new Information Age? Well, everyone dreamed about it and many thinks that they are living in the Golden Age of Mankind.
It is up to you to think!
I am in no way a retrograde. I myself have always loved and longed for Information. But, like everything in the World, sooner or later this information waterfall overflowed and flooded our normal Human Life.
Don’t you think that this is no longer a life, but a survival under aggravated circumstances?
