response to reading #1

Unfortunately, I was not very intrigued after reading through the excerpts in reading #1.  The first section, which was just a simple introduction, didn't really have anything to do with design, except for the ending.  The ending talked about how what had happened to the manager was "good design" because he was finally making things right within his theater and making it a better place, which is what design is supposed to do.  Personally, although I think its a clever comparison, I probably would not have compared the segregation example to good design, just because they are so polar opposite.  The rest of the passage is just confusing overall, mostly due to it's flowery language.  I feel like the other passages that were assigned for reading were much more helpful than these excerpts from reading #1.