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!

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    A problem is our Laissez-faire approach to everything means there is no rhyme or reason to the aesthetics of anything. It's just a jumbled mess of different advertisements and the cheapest infrestructure possible to get you in between those advertisements. Of course it's going to look shit.

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      It’s like a Minecraft server without rules or moderation after several years. Just an endless sprawl of mismatched ugly dilapidated dogshit