The Evolution of Things

A luxury item becomes a necessity when everyone has it. The telephone and the automobile were once luxury items that became necessities when they became household words because of their common use. The common use of anything requires its presence in the everyday world.

The everyday presence of anything surrenders its original design to the marketplace. The marketplace is the final resting place of any idea that becomes a common thing in the everyday world. In the marketplace common things never die as long as they remain common by being continually altered to fit an evolving culture.

If household items cease to remain common because of lack of use they die the undeserved death of all original ideas that became common things. They are discarded by a jaded population because they were so taken for granted as household words that they became luxury items once again. Their graveyard is the world of antiques.