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!
Let me state for the record that i prefer a convenience store with saggy and stained tiles and a tv set older than the world wide web in the corner ten times more than a convenience store with plastic made to look like grey wood everywhere and a front counter with a touchscreen payment service with the worst ui possible