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FLIP

                                   January 15, 2001


reversals, mirrors, flips

Fashions in phenotype
go from fat to thin,                     A tanned, muscular woman is
as the times go from thin to fat.        Hollywood material in the West,
                                         in the East she's a peasant that
The settler's cabin,                     does manual labor.
the farmer's house
accumulate clutter with
the years, as evidence of
prosperity.

The modern goes for large open airy spaces,
once real estate becomes harder to obtain
than stuff to put in it.

A form of potlatch: Wasted resources to
show wealth.

The new money/old money syndrome.
The secure don't need to flaunt their status.
So they flaunt the absence of flaunting.

Cycles in art,

crude to civilized and back again.
                                           FLUENCE
       Rough to precise

       to passionate disregard
       of precision.

       To disgust at the lack of talent
       displayed by people taking
       advantage of the fad.
                                              GOING_UNDER
       Back to a respect
       for precision.


                                     Symbols often reverse their
                                     meanings over time...

                                            STYLE_IMPAIRED
                              SACKS
                                            ANATHEMA

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