Interestingly, they're not really like that, in Australia, at least outside of Melbourne...
I think because, here, it's far more of an "organic, community-driven" thing, and the kind of people who actually drop books off there aren't quite so "woke-adjacent", at least last I checked...
I'm sure sometimes some wokey goes along and chucks out the books they disagree with, but in general they're mostly just full of shitty pulp novels (like you would previously find in a newsagent), cookbooks and random religious crap that people have dumped, lol...
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There's nothing worse than a thoughtless idiot who thinks they know more than they do. Our brains are very sensitive to our surroundings. I moved into a new house a year or two ago, and everything in the house was grey or white. There was no real color and it was honestly effecting my psychology after awhile. I wasn't really content in the house until color was added, and once it was it made the space all the richer. The same logic applies to this, yet as usual with modernists they downplay the negative effects of their beliefs.
I absolutely loathe modern interior design choice.
I know why they do it. Pale, chalky, pastel colors, meant to act as a bland canvas that you can do anything with in terms of furniture and/or decoration without causing any garish color clash.
Which, co-incidentally, means anyone can move in at any time and instantly customize their space without having to invest in time or effort. It's built for the rootless cosmopolitan, the poor bastard stuck in an never-ending cycle of moving and relocating and never having to think about how things'll look five years from now. It's all bland, mindless goyslop for the eyes and brain, and dear god do I hate it.
Hah, the room I'm in is pale pastel chalky green, I'm called out. But the room next to it is dark bronze walls. Also a color choice for generic bland at one point in history, but the two side by side, clearly different eras of bland clashing, makes a nice contrast in its own right.
Cookie-cutter single-family dwelling units piled to the sky, no neighborhood life with everyone inside huddled around their streaming TVs, a 15-minute drive to the Megalo Mart or the Food Flood or order online for everything while you shuttle the spawn back and forth to bureaucratically organized and rigidly planned activities . . . it's the suburban nightmare, and there's apparently a part of the population that just looooves it.
You forgot a step. Here is the floor plan. Here is the floor plan, but with three different roofs. And here's the mirror versions, EIGHT different floor plans!
Degrading Western architecture to uglify everything to "modernize" it is very popular in woke, globalized academic circles who control project aprouvals.
In Québec there was a very, very long building of an entrance to our National Assembly.
The National Assembly itself is a marvel of refined architecture and decoration. It bathes you in history, inspires awe and pride.
You'd think they would make something with as much taiste and quality. They just had to copy the style from the rest of the building.
The entrance is basically Bland NPC Process Through Here. No personality. It could be the entrance of an airport, or a hospital, or a college in MegaGlobalCity#84.
And that was the point. They will fuck-up the rest of the Assemblée nationale too when they get an opportunity.
It looks sturdy and durable. People wanting things to last like sturdy, durable things. It doesn't have much/any real aesthetics, but when done right, it can sell itself on the appearance of strength alone.
Brutalism only works aesthetically in a contrasting environment, though. Singular unbreakable monoliths surrounded by glass boxes.
I like concrete brutalist high-rises with bland rectangular balconies. Standing on one in the night, seeing cars in distance, inhaling freezing air, feels like you exist outside of time. Mind goes completely blank.
It's better than the endless glass boxes of today, or indeed what is in the OP image, at the very least, I'll give you that...
In my hometown, they ripped down a listed brutalist gem, and replaced it with... A glass box. A boiling hot, ugly, uncomfortable glass box. Very symbolic, lol.
I like brutalism too, because when I was a little kid we lived in a neighborhood full of "panelák"s and brutalist monuments and it just gives me mad nostalgia.
Plus, those monuments, they were actually inspiring. A bunch of them were about spaceflight, like a rocket shooting up into the sky, or stylized statues of soldiers, or construction workers, or whatever. Real manly, aspirational stuff, not some fucking nigger career criminal who overdosed on fent while the cops were trying to stop him from hurting himself or someone else. There's a reason why the average Chinese kid wants to be an astronaut while the average Western kid wants to be a tiktok influencer.
Same in New Zealand. Same in Aus. It's particularly egregious when they tear down a literally heritage-listed building, with the approval of the heritage council no less, because it is for "human progress" and/or "the greater good", lol...
There's a quote I recall that applies here: "Barbarism is thinking you know what's true and not tolerating anyone saying differently. Civilization is thinking you know what's true, but being open-minded about the possibility of being wrong. Decadence is believing there is no truth, and that one lie is as good as another."
For example:
Barbarism: "All buildings must be built in this style."
Civilization: "I prefer this style of building, but you might be able to persuade me about the merits of other styles."
Decadence: "Nothing is objectively ugly or beautiful. The new building isn't any worse, just different."
That is disgusting, not just because the second image looks like it was designed by playdough but because renovation is one of the best methods of preserving culture.
There are SO many disused buildings in Europe, many abandoned. Imagine just taking any of those, renovating the inside to be more modern or at least more efficient so you preserve the history of the building itself but provide it with a use and new life for the present. This is just laziness of can't be bothered, destroy and build something easy.
I agree that is bad and rules should be loosened in some regards, but then you end up with big corporations that can pay to ignore the rules and create monstrosities like this.
Imagine going to work every day in the old building, and being able to stop every once in a while in the middle of your bullshit office job, look around you and be reminded just just a moment that beauty exists. To have your spirits uplifted, even for just a moment, would probably have actually made you more productive.
Postmodernists either don't understand that beauty itself has utility, or they actively hate the idea of it. I'm sure that renovated building has all of the trappings that a modern office building needs: eco-friendly insulation, gender-neutral bathrooms, a wine bar and a place to nap. Very utilitarian.
But whereas the old building was probably in use for centuries, this one will be empty in a couple of decades. Despite all of its utilitarian trappings, it will quickly become clear that no one has any use for it. No one will have any use for it because no one wants to be in it, and no one wants to be in it because it's so fucking ugly.
Ignoring the repulsive modernization... I am disgusted by the casual cruelty of the commenter. So what if you disagree? Why do you need to make a personal attack on the poster?
Disgusting and inhuman creatures are created from the vats of the Multi-Culti melting pots of their cities, and the only emotions they're capable of feeling are bitter anger and jealousy. They're raised on hating the people that don't live like they do, and contempt for their behavior and lifestyles strikes at the only identity they have, the only one they're allowed to have; modern good, classical bad, future always better than past.
I challenge this shit-take. Go to Krakow, go to Italy, go anywhere where the spirit of old architecture is alive and tell me you don't feel the difference.
Aesthetics are a petry dish of the undercurrent of culture and consciousness. This is why we have beautiful temples, this is why we have robe and uniform, painted ceilings, ordinance, etc. Read the 5 books of Moses, specifically about the tabernacle - the spirit of a people is contained within everything that they collectively value and the laws that bind them, such that it could contain a manifestation of the highest sublime authority, or God, with whom they could then be on speaking terms with. Aesthetics are an extremely important part of how we negotiate with this deep flowing undercurrent that nourishes the soul of a people. The temple came long before the city, and if your temple is ugly and you eschew tradition and law, you bring in an ugly spirit - see the tabernacle of Remphan and its consequences, or really just anyone who has wholesale abandoned their cultural values and torched their temples, or ask anyone who has lived through the soviet union about how oppressively gray the commie blocks made them feel, how even the brutalist architecture made them feel like prisoners on a spiritual level within their own country. The spirit of brutalism is a jailor.
What does modern architecture evoke from the people in the west? With no unifying aesthetic, many are either indifferent or repulsed by these structures. I see it as a spiritual clog that prevents us from truly developing any kind of collective identity in some ways. Along with all the other ways we have been inhibited, the spirit has been stunted and is schizophrenic, self-destructively amiable to the power of suggestion as cultural wizards, magicians, and wisemen from strange places move to ritualistically castrate and bleed it out like Simon of Trent.
The first one is a traditional themed one to go with the tweet, and the second one is some coomer waifu picture that shows how much of a deracinated degenerate the user is
One of the most infuriating of all woke arguments. they destroy shit and when you complain they accuse you of caring too much about whatever they destroyed. If it's no big deal, why destroy it in the first place? See also: race swapping casting.
Apparently some fuckers intervened to prevent the owner from altering the exterior by having it listed despite being less than twenty years old at the time.
In the United Kingdom, a listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland... A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission from the local planning authority.
Laughs in Australia and New Zealand, where heritage protections for "things the colonisers built, lol" are essentially nonexistent...
We're headed for a future with no old buildings, no old art (because it has all been "handed back", defaced or destroyed), no statues (all been torn down), no cultural icons (they've all been "cancelled"), no community ("stay home, stay safe"), and no common culture.
The perfect "cosmopolitan" eternity, where everything is bland, homogenous, and yet "diverse" at the same time.
Orwell couldn't have even imagined how quickly we got to this point. Insane...
I was actually reading about a somewhat related case, in Dunedin, NZ, today…
“Cadbury World” (and the Cadbury factory it was part of) was once Dunedin’s biggest tourist attraction. When I went there, it was one of the first places I went.
Mondelez/Kraft buys Cadbury. Immediately sets about wrecking the company, including buy selling off the factory. But the tourist part of it remains…
Thousands of locals are laid off. Community anger is high. So what does the government do?
They propose knocking the whole thing down, and turning into a hospital. Because apparently Dunedin suddenly “needed” a new hospital, and they decided that site would do just fine.
“Oh, the blocks too small. Guess we’ll just have to knock down ALL the heritage buildings! Too bad some are over 100 years old, and pre-date Cadbury.”
They essentially forced the hand of the local heritage council, and obliterated the entire site, tourist attraction, listed buildings, and all.
And then, then they found “Māori heritage” hidden under the demolished buildings (so they claim), meaning that the site cannot be developed properly. The hospital is now no longer able to be built big enough on that site, it is over budget, will never be finished on time, and will never be “fit for purpose”. Yet loud elements of the community are “happy”, at least online, because every trace of Cadbury, and of the colour purple, has been obliterated from the site…
All for absolutely no reason, except government greed, hubris, lack of oversight and respect for built heritage, and corruption. Fucking wild…
Translation: "If you think that's bad, wait until you see what we do next. Kill yourself, lol"
A what library?
The libraries that look like large mailboxes, you've probably driven or walked by one before: https://littlefreelibrary.org/
Although it's a nice idea, they're used to push the same agenda as everything else.
Interestingly, they're not really like that, in Australia, at least outside of Melbourne...
I think because, here, it's far more of an "organic, community-driven" thing, and the kind of people who actually drop books off there aren't quite so "woke-adjacent", at least last I checked...
I'm sure sometimes some wokey goes along and chucks out the books they disagree with, but in general they're mostly just full of shitty pulp novels (like you would previously find in a newsagent), cookbooks and random religious crap that people have dumped, lol...
Sometimes you do find gems, though, I do admit.
Interesting. No I've never seen one of those before. On the map it looks like there's some in my town but they're all inside buildings.
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Meanwhile:
"This person used the okay symbol! This is a Nazi take-over of America! No not when Obama does it!"
There's nothing worse than a thoughtless idiot who thinks they know more than they do. Our brains are very sensitive to our surroundings. I moved into a new house a year or two ago, and everything in the house was grey or white. There was no real color and it was honestly effecting my psychology after awhile. I wasn't really content in the house until color was added, and once it was it made the space all the richer. The same logic applies to this, yet as usual with modernists they downplay the negative effects of their beliefs.
I absolutely loathe modern interior design choice.
I know why they do it. Pale, chalky, pastel colors, meant to act as a bland canvas that you can do anything with in terms of furniture and/or decoration without causing any garish color clash.
Which, co-incidentally, means anyone can move in at any time and instantly customize their space without having to invest in time or effort. It's built for the rootless cosmopolitan, the poor bastard stuck in an never-ending cycle of moving and relocating and never having to think about how things'll look five years from now. It's all bland, mindless goyslop for the eyes and brain, and dear god do I hate it.
Hah, the room I'm in is pale pastel chalky green, I'm called out. But the room next to it is dark bronze walls. Also a color choice for generic bland at one point in history, but the two side by side, clearly different eras of bland clashing, makes a nice contrast in its own right.
I love white as it makes the area lighter and more open and airy. To each their own. But I love white and natural wood.
Actual white is a bold, vibrant, intense color that's a bitch to clean and I wish you well with that, cause that's one hell of a brave choice.
And yes, natural wood is awesome, and my preferred building material of choice.
I don't have kids or niggers so I don't have dirty walls.
I moved to the suburbs and the designs and such make me miserable.
Cookie-cutter single-family dwelling units piled to the sky, no neighborhood life with everyone inside huddled around their streaming TVs, a 15-minute drive to the Megalo Mart or the Food Flood or order online for everything while you shuttle the spawn back and forth to bureaucratically organized and rigidly planned activities . . . it's the suburban nightmare, and there's apparently a part of the population that just looooves it.
That part of the population loves not living in the “multicultural” cities. That’s priority one.
You forgot a step. Here is the floor plan. Here is the floor plan, but with three different roofs. And here's the mirror versions, EIGHT different floor plans!
My parents and extended family are like this, lol.
I really don't get it, but then, I don't really like driving all the time.
They're happy, especially if they can just get others to deliver the stuff, instead, as you point out...
I hate suburbs. They are so boring and isolated.
WTF, who approved that? That is from London right? Why in the world would anyone do that, bunch of barbarians.
Degrading Western architecture to uglify everything to "modernize" it is very popular in woke, globalized academic circles who control project aprouvals.
In Québec there was a very, very long building of an entrance to our National Assembly.
The National Assembly itself is a marvel of refined architecture and decoration. It bathes you in history, inspires awe and pride.
You'd think they would make something with as much taiste and quality. They just had to copy the style from the rest of the building.
Nope : https://images.radio-canada.ca/q_auto,w_960/v1/ici-info/4x3/assemblee-nationale-agora-pavillon-quebec.jpg
The entrance is basically Bland NPC Process Through Here. No personality. It could be the entrance of an airport, or a hospital, or a college in MegaGlobalCity#84.
And that was the point. They will fuck-up the rest of the Assemblée nationale too when they get an opportunity.
It looks sturdy and durable. People wanting things to last like sturdy, durable things. It doesn't have much/any real aesthetics, but when done right, it can sell itself on the appearance of strength alone.
Brutalism only works aesthetically in a contrasting environment, though. Singular unbreakable monoliths surrounded by glass boxes.
I like concrete brutalist high-rises with bland rectangular balconies. Standing on one in the night, seeing cars in distance, inhaling freezing air, feels like you exist outside of time. Mind goes completely blank.
It's better than the endless glass boxes of today, or indeed what is in the OP image, at the very least, I'll give you that...
In my hometown, they ripped down a listed brutalist gem, and replaced it with... A glass box. A boiling hot, ugly, uncomfortable glass box. Very symbolic, lol.
I like brutalism too, because when I was a little kid we lived in a neighborhood full of "panelák"s and brutalist monuments and it just gives me mad nostalgia.
Plus, those monuments, they were actually inspiring. A bunch of them were about spaceflight, like a rocket shooting up into the sky, or stylized statues of soldiers, or construction workers, or whatever. Real manly, aspirational stuff, not some fucking nigger career criminal who overdosed on fent while the cops were trying to stop him from hurting himself or someone else. There's a reason why the average Chinese kid wants to be an astronaut while the average Western kid wants to be a tiktok influencer.
Same in New Zealand. Same in Aus. It's particularly egregious when they tear down a literally heritage-listed building, with the approval of the heritage council no less, because it is for "human progress" and/or "the greater good", lol...
It's always the same way/arguments, too.
everything shall be grey, amorphous and safe for erveryone, here on the planet of human automatons
There's a quote I recall that applies here: "Barbarism is thinking you know what's true and not tolerating anyone saying differently. Civilization is thinking you know what's true, but being open-minded about the possibility of being wrong. Decadence is believing there is no truth, and that one lie is as good as another."
For example:
Barbarism: "All buildings must be built in this style."
Civilization: "I prefer this style of building, but you might be able to persuade me about the merits of other styles."
Decadence: "Nothing is objectively ugly or beautiful. The new building isn't any worse, just different."
That is disgusting, not just because the second image looks like it was designed by playdough but because renovation is one of the best methods of preserving culture.
There are SO many disused buildings in Europe, many abandoned. Imagine just taking any of those, renovating the inside to be more modern or at least more efficient so you preserve the history of the building itself but provide it with a use and new life for the present. This is just laziness of can't be bothered, destroy and build something easy.
I agree that is bad and rules should be loosened in some regards, but then you end up with big corporations that can pay to ignore the rules and create monstrosities like this.
Imagine going to work every day in the old building, and being able to stop every once in a while in the middle of your bullshit office job, look around you and be reminded just just a moment that beauty exists. To have your spirits uplifted, even for just a moment, would probably have actually made you more productive.
Postmodernists either don't understand that beauty itself has utility, or they actively hate the idea of it. I'm sure that renovated building has all of the trappings that a modern office building needs: eco-friendly insulation, gender-neutral bathrooms, a wine bar and a place to nap. Very utilitarian.
But whereas the old building was probably in use for centuries, this one will be empty in a couple of decades. Despite all of its utilitarian trappings, it will quickly become clear that no one has any use for it. No one will have any use for it because no one wants to be in it, and no one wants to be in it because it's so fucking ugly.
Ignoring the repulsive modernization... I am disgusted by the casual cruelty of the commenter. So what if you disagree? Why do you need to make a personal attack on the poster?
Disgusting and inhuman creatures are created from the vats of the Multi-Culti melting pots of their cities, and the only emotions they're capable of feeling are bitter anger and jealousy. They're raised on hating the people that don't live like they do, and contempt for their behavior and lifestyles strikes at the only identity they have, the only one they're allowed to have; modern good, classical bad, future always better than past.
Minimalism isn't just the loss of detail, but the loss of life itself.
Minimalism is great. Ugliness is the problem. They just drape it in "modern" or "minimalist" so people suck it down.
So they demolished a perfectly nice building that's good for conservation and replaced it with dross and drivel. WTF.
I challenge this shit-take. Go to Krakow, go to Italy, go anywhere where the spirit of old architecture is alive and tell me you don't feel the difference.
Aesthetics are a petry dish of the undercurrent of culture and consciousness. This is why we have beautiful temples, this is why we have robe and uniform, painted ceilings, ordinance, etc. Read the 5 books of Moses, specifically about the tabernacle - the spirit of a people is contained within everything that they collectively value and the laws that bind them, such that it could contain a manifestation of the highest sublime authority, or God, with whom they could then be on speaking terms with. Aesthetics are an extremely important part of how we negotiate with this deep flowing undercurrent that nourishes the soul of a people. The temple came long before the city, and if your temple is ugly and you eschew tradition and law, you bring in an ugly spirit - see the tabernacle of Remphan and its consequences, or really just anyone who has wholesale abandoned their cultural values and torched their temples, or ask anyone who has lived through the soviet union about how oppressively gray the commie blocks made them feel, how even the brutalist architecture made them feel like prisoners on a spiritual level within their own country. The spirit of brutalism is a jailor.
What does modern architecture evoke from the people in the west? With no unifying aesthetic, many are either indifferent or repulsed by these structures. I see it as a spiritual clog that prevents us from truly developing any kind of collective identity in some ways. Along with all the other ways we have been inhibited, the spirit has been stunted and is schizophrenic, self-destructively amiable to the power of suggestion as cultural wizards, magicians, and wisemen from strange places move to ritualistically castrate and bleed it out like Simon of Trent.
Certified A #1 nitwit.
notice the difference in avatars.
The first one is a traditional themed one to go with the tweet, and the second one is some coomer waifu picture that shows how much of a deracinated degenerate the user is
I actually didn’t notice this until you pointed it out…
Just thought it was another rude thot with a bikini picture of herself as her avatar, but nah, looks like you could be right, lol…
That really does somehow make it worse, innit?
One of the most infuriating of all woke arguments. they destroy shit and when you complain they accuse you of caring too much about whatever they destroyed. If it's no big deal, why destroy it in the first place? See also: race swapping casting.
What in the Dr Seuss is that?
For anyone else who is interested, the first is the Mappin & Webb building. The latter is No 1 Poultry.
Apparently some fuckers intervened to prevent the owner from altering the exterior by having it listed despite being less than twenty years old at the time.
That new building is bland, uninspired, and just confused looking.
What is it supposed to be, a lighthouse or a ships superstructure plopped on the corner?
I’m more worried about the impact of constant false allegations of “racism”.
It appears designed to scare an entire population away from defending itself against a massive invasion
"Your life must be pretty good, if you have time to complain about your government trying to erase your culture and heritage."
Did I do a good job of translating smug NPC into English?
Laughs in Australia and New Zealand, where heritage protections for "things the colonisers built, lol" are essentially nonexistent...
We're headed for a future with no old buildings, no old art (because it has all been "handed back", defaced or destroyed), no statues (all been torn down), no cultural icons (they've all been "cancelled"), no community ("stay home, stay safe"), and no common culture.
The perfect "cosmopolitan" eternity, where everything is bland, homogenous, and yet "diverse" at the same time.
Orwell couldn't have even imagined how quickly we got to this point. Insane...
The old one has a fascinating character to it.
The new one looks like someone tried to do brutalist style, but got drunk halfway through drawing it, and asked an AI to fill in the blanks.
I was actually reading about a somewhat related case, in Dunedin, NZ, today…
“Cadbury World” (and the Cadbury factory it was part of) was once Dunedin’s biggest tourist attraction. When I went there, it was one of the first places I went.
Mondelez/Kraft buys Cadbury. Immediately sets about wrecking the company, including buy selling off the factory. But the tourist part of it remains…
Thousands of locals are laid off. Community anger is high. So what does the government do?
They propose knocking the whole thing down, and turning into a hospital. Because apparently Dunedin suddenly “needed” a new hospital, and they decided that site would do just fine.
“Oh, the blocks too small. Guess we’ll just have to knock down ALL the heritage buildings! Too bad some are over 100 years old, and pre-date Cadbury.”
They essentially forced the hand of the local heritage council, and obliterated the entire site, tourist attraction, listed buildings, and all.
And then, then they found “Māori heritage” hidden under the demolished buildings (so they claim), meaning that the site cannot be developed properly. The hospital is now no longer able to be built big enough on that site, it is over budget, will never be finished on time, and will never be “fit for purpose”. Yet loud elements of the community are “happy”, at least online, because every trace of Cadbury, and of the colour purple, has been obliterated from the site…
All for absolutely no reason, except government greed, hubris, lack of oversight and respect for built heritage, and corruption. Fucking wild…