Mediocrity Is The Norm...High Standards

Image via WikipediaWhat happend to standards.  These days it seems everyone is a professional at everything yet the standards for quality has gone way way way down.

Sure its good not to have such strict standards because it lets everyone have a try but truly when it comes to buying something don't you want it to be highest quality possible for the money that you are paying.
Comparison can be an ugly word when comparing things as all things are original but lets face it something really do belong on the top of the pile and other belong on the bottom of the heap. 

Watching Hell kitchen you realize that people don't have a clue about high standards anymore.  There is no real level of perfection anymore.  Its almost as if creating something close to perfect cost to much so we're only going to mass produce garbage.

We're so used to eating garbage, reading garbage, watching garbage on TV and the MOvies, wearing garbage, that garbage is the norm and new standard.


These days
movies are crap
music is crap
photography is crap
books media food its all crap.

Where is the good shit hiding.  How do we find it.  How do we get it.  I recently went to my favorite chinese restaurant that used to look like crap. It was a run down old building with some of the ugliest bathroom I've seen.  You could catch a bad rashing just by washing your hands.  But the food was good.  REally good sometimes, so so good but still better than most on their bad days.
Now new owners have remodeled the place.  It looks beautiful in side. The bathrooms are immaculate almost like a five star hotel but the food....Crap.  The taste and preparation of the food has gone way way done and I will no long be dining there.  I will be looking for a new place to eat as I refuse to give them my time, money, when I am left feeling so unsatisfied.

Perhaps it is too expensive to have high standards.  And how does one raise the bar anyway.  Perhaps the bar has been set so high from previous artists that the only place to go these days is the bottom.  Which is where I feel everything is at.