Paris made the same mistake. It’s all narrow streets, cafes and quaint shops. I cannot park my super duty in front of the restaurant and it took me 90 minutes to drive from the Eiffel Tower to my hotel. They could have been the Houston of Europe.
the point of being a hater is having taste. For everything you hate on you must have something you just as enthusiastically recommend. Otherwise you’re a cancer upon society
A big shift that happened during my life. When I was young, if something was very commercially popular, you were not supposed to take it seriously. The popularity was proof that it was mediocre. It damaged its the reputation. If there was some popularity it was ok to take serious, but it couldn't be too much.
The reverse is true now though. The popularity of something is proof of its greatness. And that you should spend time analyzing it. This is for true for movies, music, books, celebrities, games, etc.
Saudi heritage is rooted in low class Bedouin tribes who collaborated with the British Empire to dismantle the Muslim empire
For your information, Mecca and Medina is occupied
This is it, the most zeitgeist story. It’s got performative diversity fetish. It’s got social media body dysmorphia. It’s got AI moral panic. It’s got decay of academic institutions.