Contemplations — 3 Min Read
Notes From Becoming Obsolete
Contemplations — 3 Min Read
Notes From Becoming Obsolete
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
architect, inventor, futurist
Becoming Obsolete. Daeu Angert. Oil on canvas. 2021. 48″ x 30″. Part of a private collection.
was once useful
and potentially in demand.
Lively.
Perhaps revered.
the one who invented it.
Definitely recommended.
Everything that ever became obsolete
was stubborn,
rigid,
and careless with its future.
insisted on maintaining the status quo,
even when it was easier to adapt,
ignoring the obvious signs
that its world was changing
into seafoam green.
doubled down on its ignorance,
to reestablish itself
into the darkness.
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