No images!
Mind the borders! they say. So we were told in the kindergarden. Produce overflow! I say, now and then. Write dirty websites!
We are fed up with pictures. Text books looking like travel magazines. Web sites like advertising (for sun glasses? for city hotels? low cost air travel?)
Shake the rules!
Mysteries, uncertainty, resistance... just give glimpses.
Write readable programs! This is beauty, they say. But: Everybody is copying pieces of code from somewhere, and at the end we should produce a clear, united reader friendly program?
This would be untrue, I say, and beauty is about truth.
Online courses look like television programs. In Germany we used to watch Schulfunk in the morning: serious guy talking, white board somewhere, writing from nowhere. Does anybody want to see the teacher? All the time? Sitting or standing in a fixed position? Hang him up!
Go from the elementary to the complex, they say. They took it from Comenius. Start with the complex, I propose. Give an idea, a necessarily vague idea of the whole, I say. Vagueness!
Instead of steps: jumps?
They explain, step by step, where they want to go to. How do they know? Why are they supposed to know?
The perfect Website exists by its own force and right. It does not refer to external fonts: not to the world, not to mass media, nowhere. No images, no reports. It has to be totally self evident. Maybe geometrical, maybe philosophical. We need forms, we may need words. Our right does not derive from other worlds!