Ugly is a choice.
@lulumeservey on why we should put effort into making beautiful things again:
“People are allowed to care about objectively beautiful things.
We had the better part of a decade where we had to take this aesthetic, relativistic view that everything is beautiful in someone eyes.
That this piece of art that is clearly trash is just as beautiful as one made by the great masters.
Or somebody who is clearly unhealthy is just as beautiful as someone who takes really good care of themselves.
People are allowed to say a beautiful building is worth creating and a beautiful website is worth creating.
This is what Joe Gebbia and the National Design Studio team are doing. They’re saying, "We believe that a more beautiful experience on the internet reflect the dignity of being an American citizen, and that is what we want. So we're going to put in effort and talent to go make that for you because it's worth something. We're not going to pretend that a website has to be ugly."
Anything big or small or glamorous or pedestrian, like a simple government website, can (and should) be made more beautiful.
And when it is, people appreciate it so much more because we do have this inherent yearning for beauty.“
I know people whose lives are being and have been actively ruined by leftists and woke mobs etc. Some “cancelled” people couldn’t bear it and ended their own lives. Never an ounce of sympathy from the establishment for them or a word about those “harassment campaigns”
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She’s an advocate for going direct, has built a singular career and shares everything she’s learned.
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@kunley_drukpa If you talk to Korean men, you immediately realize it has become part of the Zeitgeist of the youth and gets talked about in small groups or on private sex-segregated forums.
Beyond that fact, it's go-hard or go-home type of culture, especially if you commit to something a bit fringe. 4B is definitely one of those radical lifestyle choice that's not quite the normie one for now. But in general feminist ideas have gained a lot of popularity since 2016 in Korea.
@BackTheBunny There was more of--at least--a cultural understanding of what men were about before the 90s/00s. But the feminine has become hegemonic in our culture and every emanation of masculinity is castigated when it seems to disserve female interests.
After about 10 years of cultural supremacy, feminism ditched its traditional goals and evolved into the demand that women be granted Total Boner Control. Once the technology catches up, there will be demands for Common Sense Boner Laws and such
In France, if you are combat veteran applying for disability, you cannot call the center that stores your file because they shunted their own vocal servers.