What has happened to the quality of work in our culture?
A friend of mine wrote a post about the decline in sound quality that you should all check out. However, I think that the truth is that our “fast paced, hedonistic culture” has led to degradation in far more than just sound quality. I think that it has led to a lack of excellence in all aspects of culture today.
Excellence has been replaced by convenience and as a result we have more material (movies, books, song etc.) than ever before but the vast majority of it has no real discernible value. Most of, if not all of the works of today, could not hold a candle to the classics of yesterday.
God placed inside of us these incredible gifts of creativity to express and to communicate but due to our lack of stewardship of His gifts, due to our lack of hard work, we have far to often produced to a standard lower than we are capable. Even worse is that most people will never even realize that what they are reading, watching and listening to is not as good as it was meant to be.
That we would as a generation stop pursuing convenience and start pursuing excellence. It will be harder and it will require more commitment on our part but it will be worth it when we begin to create art that is able to stand the test of time, that is able to truly affect culture, because lets face it, what we have been creating up to now hasn’t gotten the job done.
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January 18, 2008 at 2:22 pm
CHRISSYSNOW
Excellence has been replaced by it’s good enough. I see a great deal of this at work. Some people don’t know crap about anything and amazingly enough are happy not knowing. I work for NYS and have beentold several times that as long as you show up it’s good enough. Fortunately for me learned laziness is a skill I cannot aquire. My conscience would kill me. Most people don’t have good work ethics. It’s a vicious cycle. We don’t paid enough money, so we do the bare minimum, manageent sees this and assume sometimes that we don’t matter and treat employees badly then moral goes down and round and round it goes. I could go on…
January 20, 2008 at 3:17 am
mooney
no doubt. it’s something I think about every time i sit to write; every time i clock in at work. am i giving everything i have, or am i holding back because 100% costs me too much.