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cgod  ·  1192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Executive Order on Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture

This is a popular idea on the far right.

If you are a radical right personality it's almost obligatory that you make a video hating on modern architecture.

The old ways are the best, we shouldn't progress in our arts, science, ethics or morals and if we can manage to regress that would probably be best.

A certain strain of thinker has always yearned for the good old days of the forefathers, the Greeks were down with that and so are we.

The puzzling part is how badly conservative want to suck off Howard Roark, it's the data point that I can fit.





kleinbl00  ·  1192 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ya see yer girl yesterday?

Fundamentally, the rank and file of the alt-right movement are the guys who would have been shot at by Pinkertons in the 20s. They're the Tom Joads, the itinerants blown out of their homesteads by the Dust Bowl. And if the plutocrats hadn't so successfully drawn parallels between labor, socialism and communism they'd be Union skull crackers through and through.

It's taken three generations of propaganda but the guys who most need the support of collective bargaining and socialized society are the guys who hate it the most. So they've got their natural motivations (class and social solidarity, individualism) at cross-purposes with their external motivations (entrepreneur worship, subservience to the state).

It's a whiplashy environment. Frankly dreading how it's going to play out.

cgod  ·  1191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Too busy to see anything...but I fixed the bad leak on the espresso machine and my alarm system is working and maybe Christmas will go off ok.

And I was at the beach for three days while my espresso machine and alarm and door lock were all breaking.

Luckily I've realized that every thing that happens in a week in this world is mostly forgettable two weeks later.

mk  ·  1191 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Howard Roark wouldn’t build these buildings. He wasn’t a neoclassicist. He was a modernist, more like Louis Khan.

cgod  ·  1190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Exactly.