There was a time when color was expensive, dyes, paints, etc. Ford famously only wanted black cars…
No. I think we’re living in a more colorful world because color is cheap.
Has the world become less colourful?
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Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
The decorative programmable-color LED strips and such use RGB LEDs.
This is terrible for people with glasses btw -- induces much more chromatic aberration than other light sources, and is very distracting and hard to ignore. At the edges of the field of view objects get very clearly separated, with the blue part usually being the most noticeable.
Yes, completely agree. I primarily wear glasses now and I hate seeing 2 or three ghost images.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#183I'm a man and I like colors. I have a red car, red shoes and colorful jackets. None of them are especially remarkable, they just have colors on them. I get remarks from colleagues about my shoes, I get remarks from random people on the street about my jacket. These people don't tend to be very positive about it, yet they feel the need to say something about my appearance, because I wear colorful stuff. I feel like pa…
People are afraid to stand out? Where I'm from, USA, it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and to get tattoos
My pet peeve is cases like this where you mention the context of where you're from, but it's so broad as to be useless. There are places in the USA where it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and get tattoos, but I assure you there are also places in the USA where it is not. When mentioning being from the USA in the context of talking about USA culture, one should specify a state, metro area, or at least general region. The USA is a very diverse place, but since so many Americans rarely see the rest of it except through media (which naturally plays up the homogeneity or focuses on things that will be relatable throughout the USA, avoiding local quirks unless trying to emphasize a strange locality), they frequently mistakenly assume the whole country is a lot more similar to their region than it really is.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#184It's not just colours. The world rapidly turning into a real-life "borg-world": same kinds of buildings; same kinds of dresses; same kinds of "world models; same philosophies; and now the same language too. The world is for all real purposes has been gobbled up by the Anglosphere. It's all but dead; I'm sure many people realize how drab and low-entropy our world is today.
My impression is that architecture is becoming increasingly 'rectangular', with exteriors being basically a supremely boring assortment of different rectangular structures. Especially at the lower end, residential construction mainly meant to be sold to people who buy it as an investment rather than for personal use.
It's far easier and faster to use essentially pre-made easily-tileable templates for buildings than it is to make anything custom. A huge chunk of the US is built this way.
It's because those who need the buildings want them cheaply, and aren't considering an aesthetic factor.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#185Colors are trending towards the "may need to sell this kitchen/home/car/thing in the future, so I want to go with a non-offensive, maximally inclusive color for my potential buyers." If you paint your house hot pink, you're probably not concerned about resale value for a long while.
Even with that aspect, the consensus of what is considered neutral non-offensive household colors has changed from a warm brown palette (off-white walls, brown wood floor or tan carpet, wood or off-white cabinets) to a cool grey palette. That is a big shift. In the 90's or earlier painting a room grey would have been considered an opinionated decision that might turn off potential buyers.
It's true, trends evolve.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
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>>Color is an experience. And where is your experience outside your mind? Whatever they are, where are qualia outside the model of your world? Where is your pain whe you get beaten up?
I don't disagree with the points you were/are trying to make. I disagree as to their relevance in a discussion about colors .
It may be not of relevance in your model of the world, aka your mind.
It is of relevance in mine.
I'm interested in a social trend, which may or may not exist according to this Twitter message, by which pure subjective experience, qualia, has a lower degree of variation than in the past. In short, is qualia of importance or not? What makes minds prefer white noise lately?
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
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It might be a self-perpetuating problem. Maybe people prefer (red, green, bright blue), but they fear that they won't be able to sell their car because of its color. So they buy white. (I read somewhere [so take this with a grain of salt] that this effect happens with marble kitchen countertops: not that many homeowners actually like them, but they believe that potential buyers might, so an overproportional amount of…
> Maybe people prefer (red, green, bright blue), but they fear that they won't be able to sell their car because of its color. So they buy white. There's definitely location/cultural variety here, people would worry a white car wouldn't sell, due to the increased visibility of dirt and scratches, so only gets 5% of sales here. The top colours here are silver (24%), black (22%) and blue (17%, mostly darker shades). I'…
White cars have two problems: damage shows, and the smallest amount of dirt shows. The silver color helps with the latter part quite a bit.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#188I mainly wear grayscale and maybe some beige. I like grayscale cars and appliances. Why? Simply because it's easier on the eye. I grew up in a colour overload and I'm very glad things become more neutral. I'm able to appreciate colour much more when it's not everywhere all the time.
Also, utility and convinience are much more increased with neutral colours. Clothes are easier to match, replace, wear again. Cars and appliances are easier to resell.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
People are afraid to stand out? Where I'm from, USA, it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and to get tattoos
My pet peeve is cases like this where you mention the context of where you're from, but it's so broad as to be useless. There are places in the USA where it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and get tattoos, but I assure you there are also places in the USA where it is not. When mentioning being from the USA in the context of talking about USA culture, one should specify a state, metro area, or at least genera…
Do you have a place in mind where these things are not common? Like I have friends from Tennessee with colored hair, colored contacts, and like to wear bright "harajuku" style fashion.
but sure, I'm positive there's some towns where dressing in bright colors is frowned on. Not sure where that would be. Even Elvis and Roy Rogers wore outlandish clothing.
Re: Has the world become less colourful?
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
My pet peeve is cases like this where you mention the context of where you're from, but it's so broad as to be useless. There are places in the USA where it's popular to dye your hair bright colors and get tattoos, but I assure you there are also places in the USA where it is not. When mentioning being from the USA in the context of talking about USA culture, one should specify a state, metro area, or at least genera…
Do you have a place in mind where these things are not common? Like I have friends from Tennessee with colored hair, colored contacts, and like to wear bright "harajuku" style fashion. but sure, I'm positive there's some towns where dressing in bright colors is frowned on. Not sure where that would be. Even Elvis and Roy Rogers wore outlandish clothing.
I'm guessing your Tennessee friends live in a city (or not even in TN at all, since you say they're "from" there).
In my experience there is much more conformity in rural areas in the mid-south, especially in middle class spaces. I even notice it if I take a flight from the east coast to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first flight to a hub like Atlanta has a normal variety of people in a normal variety of dress. Then the second leg you suddenly notice a significant decrease in variety. It's just kind of obvious if you see it, so idk why you haven't noticed it unless you're not very well travelled in the USA.
It sounds like you are making inferences about Tennessee based on what your friends from there are like, but they are your friends (and it sounds like they chose to move from TN to wherever you are) so this is in many ways a biased sample. A more accurate way is to observe random people. I would be more interested in hearing your observations from when you actually visited Tennessee than your inferences you think you can make from knowing someone who is from there.