Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors
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Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to turn them into . . . this?

But the contemporary built environment is not the millennials’ legacy; it is their inheritance. They didn’t ask for cardboard modernism — they simply capitulate to its infantilizing aesthetic paradigm because there is no alternative. Or if there is an alternative, it’s between an $8 ice cream cone or an $11 ice cream cone (or a $49 ticket to the Museum of Ice Cream).

time to discuss everyone's favorite subject: aesthetics! is everything actually ugly? are aesthetic critiques of modern living fascist? that's for you to decide!

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      it always sounded like mysticism to me

      How so? I have to say it's worked pretty well for me

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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        2 years ago

        I just don't see why color saturation would be a central part of screen addiction. But like I said, I haven't tried it, so maybe it'll work.

        • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Of course it really depends on what you're using your phone for. If it's mostly reading, greyscaling your phone probably won't do much. But instagram, tik tok, and reddit were all immediately far less able to hold my attention once colors were removed. Idk I'm sure it's not for everyone, but may as well give it a try!