Rust

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What is about pictures of rust that draw our attention? In this pre-fab world of ours, perhaps this is the only reminder left of time. Where buildings can be finished in a day, and new technology pushing that to a fraction of a day, and antiseptic sprays making our world 99.9% germ-free and weed-killers turning our landscape into something resembling astroturf, its no wonder we're drawn to the metaphor of rust showing us the cycle of life and inexorable march toward our own death. Rusted metal is our generation's ivy-covered wall.