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| Globalisation Is Killing Originality |
| With the introduction of globalisation gained through Internet sites and multi-national store outlets. We see a cloning process of cities world-wide. Many trade places in our modern world are much of a much-ness - creating a familiar shopping experience, whichever country you may be in.
This means that most, if not all products on shelves will be identical around the world, which limits creative diversity from different cultures and sub-cultures.
With this in mind.. Do we, or will we see a form of censorship / limitation on the arts, i.e. Music, painting, sculpture and film? |
 dan  23 Jul 2008 00:12
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Absolutely, "We are Borg. Resistance is futile". The world as a whole is a handful of big
corporations or national brands jockeying for position.
The only thing I'll add is there will always be some smaller groups who fight hard to be different.
It's an uphill battle for sure but we still have rebels and entrepreneurs and artists and freaks who
will fight the trends and start something new. Often it gets sucked back up into the Borg, but then
they move on and start something new yet again.
There's always hope. Originality will never die as long as two or more people are left alive on
this planet. |
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It's an interesting angle mackenzie; the idea that not only has creativity suffered, to an extent,
but also food shopping and ultimately farming.
This list leads onto jobs too. Office work is becoming more and more the norm nowadays, unlike fifty
years ago, for example, when the types of jobs, trades and ways to make a living were very much
varied. Jobs / careers seem to be following this trend of being quite similar. So there isn't as
much choice, which parallels the choice selection in the arts world, for example.
Although, going back to the point you made about globalisation creating a more varied pallet of
creative work for people. I do completely agree with this and think that we will start to see new
genres of arts driven from quick and easy accessed, multi-national influences.
We may even say a back-lash against globalised conformity and see smaller, independent shops opening
again and market stalls and folk music, for example, which, I must add, happens to already be a
growing trend within hip and trendy parts of London.
This idea of being healthy, buying free-range foods and having animals that are farmed naturally and
in good conditions is what most people want and this all adds to this possible back-lash to
globalised 'cloning'. At the minute, it's an expensive life-style, but like anything that's a rarity
and fashionable; it will eventually fall in price and become the common way of life. |
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dan 24 Jul 2008 12:29
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I think that this is true, at least to an extent. Some might, however, argue that globalization is
creating a new form of originality, as musicians combine styles and themes from an array of
cultures, or as countries start to appropriate different multinational images and symbols,
transforming them with local culture.
When it comes to consumer products and multi-national chain stores, I do believe that globalization
has tended to standardize merchandise and shopping practices. For example, Tesco is very popular
throughout the former Communist bloc countries of East/Central Europe. There is no question that it
is noticeably cheaper to shop at Tesco outlets than at smaller, local or national grocery chains,
even though their mass-produced products are often far inferior when it comes to quality. Yet this
has led to the construction of unattractive box stores, while the sidewalks of previously busy
boulevards in cities like Budapest are left depopulated and with boarded up shop windows.
Many of the largest international companies--such as Kraft--have also bought up some of the region's
most popular brand name chocolates, candies, beverages and other products. Local ingenuity and
creativity have both suffered as a consequence of this trend. |
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I contend that the stifling things described above like cookie-cutter malls will have the opposite
effect: That human creativity will be inspired by its surroundings to improve them. Like the more
things in our environment get controlled, the more creativity will respond, in a rebound effect.
Hopefully, there will always be open-air markets and festivals for original art, along with hip
urban enclaves and independent galleries. I read recently that malls overall are dying, as store
vacancies in malls are at an all-time high. Combo of internet shopping and a lack of disposable in
come, or a search for something more authentic perhaps?
"Where there's humans, there's art, where there's art, there's a way". |
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