Hall of Infinite Doors
This scroll seems to be someone's outlet for venting about escalators:
"Escalators are the worst form of upward transportation ever conceived. They're not quite stairs yet also not quite elevators. They embody the worst aspects of both, taking nearly as much time as walking up stairs while promoting the same laziness and energy waste as elevators. They don't really provide any help to the handicapped or people carrying large objects. They're tremendously aesthetically unappealing. Difficulties are frequent, and they require way more maintenance than they're worth. They So then why are escalators such a staple of American culture?
Neil Postman once said that the first thing he'd do when he'd encounter a new technology would be to ask what problem it solved. Well, what problem does an escalator solve? Walking? In a culture as horribly out of shape as this one, the problem solved(if walking can even really be termed as a 'problem') is much less of one than the problem they help engender.
Someday, someone will undoubtedly propose a 'green' elevator as is the fashion of today, and I hope whoever this person gets beaten repeatedly over the head. There are already 'green' escalators, and they're called stairs.
When nobody has diabetes or is excessively obese, and there's no energy crisis or we figure out to create an endless amount of materials, then we can talk about escalators. And even then they'd still be ugly."
"Escalators are the worst form of upward transportation ever conceived. They're not quite stairs yet also not quite elevators. They embody the worst aspects of both, taking nearly as much time as walking up stairs while promoting the same laziness and energy waste as elevators. They don't really provide any help to the handicapped or people carrying large objects. They're tremendously aesthetically unappealing. Difficulties are frequent, and they require way more maintenance than they're worth. They So then why are escalators such a staple of American culture?
Neil Postman once said that the first thing he'd do when he'd encounter a new technology would be to ask what problem it solved. Well, what problem does an escalator solve? Walking? In a culture as horribly out of shape as this one, the problem solved(if walking can even really be termed as a 'problem') is much less of one than the problem they help engender.
Someday, someone will undoubtedly propose a 'green' elevator as is the fashion of today, and I hope whoever this person gets beaten repeatedly over the head. There are already 'green' escalators, and they're called stairs.
When nobody has diabetes or is excessively obese, and there's no energy crisis or we figure out to create an endless amount of materials, then we can talk about escalators. And even then they'd still be ugly."