I wouldn’t feel honest if I did not reveal that renegade conveniences do exist. It would be lovely to say that all those who generate and use the conveniences have been honest and sincere people.

Alas, this has not been the case.

Who knows why some people are less than sincere and forthright. Money? Fame?

I’ll be showing some of these renegade conveniences now and then, starting today.

Today’s convenience may appear to be somewhat borderline renegade. After all, it is claiming very nice attributes for those who use conveniences: Useful, Novel, and Ideal.

It is definitely arguable that those who use the conveniences are artists, so there’s no obvious problem with that term.

The problem exists with the attributes. There is nothing wrong with being useful, of course.

But novel? Is there really such an attribute, or does that claim border on arrogance? Is Ecclesiastes 1:9 correct when it tells us that “there is nothing new under the sun?”

And ideal? Can anything or anyone really claim to be ideal?

You should know that this convenience was actually accepted by some scholars for many years. But then scholarship fashions changed, as they do, and most convenience intellectuals came to believe that the words novel and ideal were too far-reaching.

[Renegade] Convenience 75

List the three strong points:

USEFUL,

NOVEL,

IDEAL.

Consult our artists.