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.
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.