True, though those aren’t exactly the most “representative” old/pre-modern buildings for either the US OR Italy…
Choosing two buildings for the US that deliberately ape Rome is amusing, however…
The architecture of both of those structures was very deliberately chosen to ape the former empire, which is… Ironic.
Better choices would be like, literally any skyscraper (an American invention, no less), and anything from Ancient Rome (Trevi is only slightly older than the American buildings, which are, in turn, only slightly younger than the current Houses of Parliament), or like, Piza, or Florence, or Venice…
So yeah. Nitpicking, and your point still stands, but ironically, globalization was already a factor in why the Houses of Parliament are neo-Gothic (copying Cologne, there), and why Washington is “neo-Classical” (copying Rome, there)…
We adopted the wheel because of globalization too, it's not ironic. We talking about different things here: Post-WW2 globohomo. Buildings and everything else suitably reflect the ugliness of our, wherever you live, new masters, now with more reach than ever before.
Far be it from me to critique a Facebook-level meme, but it seems like a key question here is what definition of "globalization" they are using. Most of us here hate globalism for sure, but globalization means something else and has been a continuous process for hundreds of years.
True, though those aren’t exactly the most “representative” old/pre-modern buildings for either the US OR Italy…
Choosing two buildings for the US that deliberately ape Rome is amusing, however…
The architecture of both of those structures was very deliberately chosen to ape the former empire, which is… Ironic.
Better choices would be like, literally any skyscraper (an American invention, no less), and anything from Ancient Rome (Trevi is only slightly older than the American buildings, which are, in turn, only slightly younger than the current Houses of Parliament), or like, Piza, or Florence, or Venice…
So yeah. Nitpicking, and your point still stands, but ironically, globalization was already a factor in why the Houses of Parliament are neo-Gothic (copying Cologne, there), and why Washington is “neo-Classical” (copying Rome, there)…
Ironic.
We adopted the wheel because of globalization too, it's not ironic. We talking about different things here: Post-WW2 globohomo. Buildings and everything else suitably reflect the ugliness of our, wherever you live, new masters, now with more reach than ever before.
It’s largely ironic because the US wanted to copy the Roman Empire, and, today, is largely copying said Empire’s decline and fall…
That’s what’s “ironic”. In that sense, the descendants of those who built Washington DC copied Rome, in all its guises, all too well…
Far be it from me to critique a Facebook-level meme, but it seems like a key question here is what definition of "globalization" they are using. Most of us here hate globalism for sure, but globalization means something else and has been a continuous process for hundreds of years.