We_are_Stevo
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Ultimately, any given bike is an inanimate object created to meet the current demands of a particular trend dreamt up by marketing men whose job it is to make a profit for their employers...
...they are not works of art, nor even the expression of the designers personality, they are a functioning machine designed to compete with rival manufacturers. They are then advertised at great expense in an effort to persuade us to choose 'Product A' over 'Product B' so that said manufacturer can return a tidy profit, some of which goes into producing the next 'must have' replacement!
What the person at the bottom of the pile does with their purchase is entirely up to them...
...just because we have a particular interest doesn't imbue our personal preference in make, model and use with any more creedence that a little kids' £99 Hypermatket BSO (a particularly incongruous analogy if LGF's pathos is to be believed :? ) who probably loves his bike just as much as we do, if only for a little while?
As several people have mooted above, it is Mankinds unique capacity for intolerance that creates these divides...
...and as the same people have said, there is no correct answer.
...they are not works of art, nor even the expression of the designers personality, they are a functioning machine designed to compete with rival manufacturers. They are then advertised at great expense in an effort to persuade us to choose 'Product A' over 'Product B' so that said manufacturer can return a tidy profit, some of which goes into producing the next 'must have' replacement!
What the person at the bottom of the pile does with their purchase is entirely up to them...
...just because we have a particular interest doesn't imbue our personal preference in make, model and use with any more creedence that a little kids' £99 Hypermatket BSO (a particularly incongruous analogy if LGF's pathos is to be believed :? ) who probably loves his bike just as much as we do, if only for a little while?
As several people have mooted above, it is Mankinds unique capacity for intolerance that creates these divides...
...and as the same people have said, there is no correct answer.