I do have a pretty nicely designed Wireless Receiver. It looks really nice and functions very well but I doubt, even with time, it will have the charm of the insulators. It all makes me wonder why time seems to add depth

to the things we see. Of course as we become a more compact society everything is getting smaller and style is losing ground to function. I remember the Book and Movie Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. The hero, played by Gary Cooper, was a fiercely independent man of principles who wanted to build functional structures with no frills or features that he considered useless. Square and rectangular with no spires or gargoyles or curly trim. My conflict with this character is I liked his strength of character but I loathed his impersonal approach to the world we live in being so antiseptic. It's kind of like a passionate appeal for blandness.

Oh there's no point about what I'm saying other than my belief that there doesn't always have to be a purpose beyond intellectual stimulation in order for there to be value in what is created, produced and built.