@JamesLucasIT Why give a shit about beauty if you no longer believe it objectively exists? Why aspire to a transcendental when you're a materialist? And if you want those materialist, utilitarian, egalitarian philosophies in a society, then you build ugly plain buildings intentionally
@Oathlords @gilbernet_z@JamesLucasIT Modernist philosophy paved the way for our new unadorned buildings precisely because of the cultural messages it sends. Utilitarian efficiency, egalitarianism instead of hierarchy and aspiration, materialism instead of spiritualism, etc. These architectural mvmts were intentional
@Oathlords @gilbernet_z@JamesLucasIT The cost thing is a massively overstated myth. You do not have to be a billionaire to have beautiful architecture, you just actually have to give a fuck, which modern corporations, government buildings, and apartment blocks obviously don't.
@HeadofMonarch @JamesLucasIT right... cause slavery is the only way to get a building done if you aren't the one who's going to be living in it afterwards. they couldnt possibly have, idk, hired masons and carpenters or anything like that?
@akatsuki3126@elonmusk Hey, so called "Florida conservative", why don't you grow a pair instead of continuing to lick the boots of a group that fundamentally hates you?
@cyrilmatthai@Italian347 The infallible pope (thanks for agreeing on that) was completely vindicated on this when St Joan was canonized, completely refuting the errant clergy and secular rulers who had her killed.
@Randypiddleton@permabulla Degenerate art and music? The destruction of a moral society? The sexual revolution and its LGBT consequences? Mass immigration and a replacement of the American demographic? Etc.