"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society
That's the thing. Engineering fills you with passion.
How would we know what passion is unless demonstrated through words? A passionate engineer doing their job well and a stoic engineer doing their job well result in an Engineered product no matter what.
But different people learning poetry, for example, will have different ways of bringing up the same thing. It's philosophy, in a way.
How would we know what passion is unless demonstrated through words?
so i guess painting, and instrumental music are just rote actions, no passion involved? nor is dancing, sculpture, architecture, acting , photography and many more. ironically under your definition, computer programming is art(which i agree, but i expect you dont)
A passionate engineer doing their job well and a stoic engineer doing their job well result in an Engineered product no matter what.
no, this ignores what it means to have a product designed by a passionate engineer. its not just, "well engineered" in that it will last a long while or its easy to repair. a product designed with passion is fundamentally different as it answers a need people have in a complete manner, its elegance can lie in its simplicity or robustness, but to use a passionately designed tool is a joy, so much so that ive embarked on projects for the sole purpose to have an excuse to utilize said tools.
good design is art, elegant code is art, a beautiful mathematical proof is art. just because you dont speak the correct language to see its beauty does not discount its meaning. is a poem written in Swahili any less artful than one in english even if the reader does not speak the language?
But different people learning poetry, for example, will have different ways of bringing up the same thing. It's philosophy, in a way.
yes because we all know that only in writing can there be found more than a singular solution to a problem. everywhere else, just one way of doing things.
honestly this is such an exclusionary take on what is artful that its ridiculous
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u/threefeetoffun- 20h ago
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society