"We follow the same worn-out, well-trodden, clichéd paths of those who came before us, over and over again, claiming to be the next best thing, when in reality

"We follow the same worn-out, well-trodden, clichéd paths of those who came before us, over and over again, claiming to be the next best thing, when in reality we’re just the latest in a series of cookie-cutter gimmicks and frauds hoping to be validated by soulless marketplaces and rich white geriatrics like those bright-eyed, pimple-pocked stars that came before us." Besides being a horrible, run on sentence, this is exactly how web design works. People build the same thing over and over because that's what people BUY. If nobody bought any Toyota Camry's, then we wouldn't have millions of cars that all look the same and do the same thing. It's the same thing with web design. The people are who doing the really cool cutting edge design work are outliers - not the stuff you see a lot of in the mainstream sites who get the awards and visibility. It's like Henry Rollins said about punk rock being dead. Actually punk is very much alive and kicking, but you won't see it on MTV, or on the music charts, or on the radio. You have to really dig to find real punk rock anymore. You can't go to the local "hipster" bar to see the local band imitating Green Day's pop-punk sound. No, you have to go to Chicago, in some dungy, hole-in-the-wall bar, and sit in the mosh pit with skinheads who haven't showered for a week, and the band comes on and belts out an hour of angry, non-conformist anthems and just oozes with anger and disenchantment. He said a lot better than I did, but you get the idea. So yeah, good design isn't dead, you just have to did a little to find the good stuff.