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Everywhere, there are broken things. There are beautiful things in the mix, but so much is broken or built on broken foundations.
I’ve never really been one to accept a broken foundation of how the world works. Now is the time to reinvent the wheel, and it always was, no matter the lies you’ve been told. [...]
Have more ideas on wheels needing reinventing?
Benjamin Hollon asks a really great question there. I assume everyone can think of broken things and systems that would benefit by being reinvented. It actually might be quite hard not to fall into the trap of defeatism when such big topics are brought to the table. But, except for the square-shaped wheel maybe, there are enough problems to be solved, solved again, solved better.
This also reminded me of a short story in Peter Bichsels book Kindergeschichten, titled "Der Erfinder" (The inventor), about a man who lives in seclusion and independently invents things that already exist. The story closes with a sentence that I still find very beautiful (to the extent that it has lost beauty in the following translation, I am to blame):
Yet he remained a true inventor his whole life long, for even inventing things that exist already is hard work, and only inventors are able to do it.