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Ok, so, let’s start with vandalism. In particular the more mindless kind of it, as I’ll admit a good deal of vandalism is in response to things the people, or corporations do to piss off someone or a group of someones. I’m talking to those vandals who partake in mindless vandalism just to vandalize.
Why do they do it? I’m not going to give you a deeply researched ethnographic study, just my humble opinion. I believe a lot of this is motivated by the need to make something to get attention. People want to make things and sometimes, that making is done in a damaging or destructive way, but the maker does so in order to leave their mark.
It’s a very human thing to want to attention, to be noticed, to make a mark. We are all here for a period of time and then we are not here…and it’s something in us to leave a mark in some way that others notice.
Making
I know that a foundational need I have and what brought me into becoming first an Engineer, then a Programmer and finally, a Designer (and a Writer, a Cook…) is the process and outcome of making. I like to make things. I suspect that people who design, et al mentioned above, are largely motivated by this similar need.
Making is also about more than creating some sort of tangible asset. We’ll get to that in a moment. A large part of making…
