I've been paying attention to this for years and i'm convinced now that modern architecture is hostile on purpose. walk into any office building built after 1970 and pay attention to what happens to your breathing. the ceilings are exactly low enough to make you feel compressed but not so low that you'd complain. the lighting is exactly wrong enough to make everyone look slightly sick. whoever designed these spaces understood something about human psychology that they are using against you. now walk into a cathedral built in the 1200s and notice that your chest opens involuntarily. someone eight hundred years ago knew which proportions make the human spirit expand and they built it into stone. it is the most serious engineering that has ever existed and we replaced it with whatever the fuck is happening in every downtown on earth right now
I told you that AI cinematography will destroy Hollywood. Like it or not, this is the future. Those who control the arts are acting against the will of the majority. Therefore, people will use every weapon against them.
- "What are the Greeks doing now?"
- "They are watching the gymnastic & equestrian games that are now taking place in Olympia"
- "What is the prize for the victors?", Xerxes asks
- "They are given a wreath made of olive branch", the Arcadians reply
Tritantaechmes cries out: "AH! OH! Mardonius, against what kind of men have you brought us to fight, who do not compete for money, but for virtue?"
Herodotus, Histories, 8.26–27