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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 21, 2024, 06:49:50 pm »

Our enemies admit that the Western notion of architectural beauty is "conspicuous consumption":

https://www.takimag.com/article/the-year-zero-of-american-architecture/

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Why do some buildings make us happier than other buildings?

Tom Wolfe offered an eye-opening explanation in his 2003 collegiate novel I Am Charlotte Simmons: “the existence of conspicuous consumption one has rightful access to—as a student had rightful access to the fabulous Dupont Memorial Library—creates a sense of well-being.

But why did architects suddenly lose interest in their traditional task of providing the pleasures of conspicuous consumption eight decades ago?
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The dirty secret of many of the world’s greatest buildings is that they are great because they are expensive (they please us because they indulge our desire for rightful access to conspicuous consumption)

This is why Western civilization is aesthetically the most inferior civilization in the world.

Our enemies include an example:

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As for the answer to our enemies' question:

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Why did architects turn against appealing architecture in 1945?

Counterculture, duh!

Unfortunately the Counterculture era ended:

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In this century, however, there has been some evidence that the public is finally getting what it wants rather than what academic architects feel it deserves.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/plebian-hubris/

Continuing:

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For instance, here’s the new firehouse near USC:



Surprisingly, the new firehouses being built on the bigger lots by an architectural firm in San Bernardino are constructed in styles that brawny men with mustaches appreciate.

It is unsurprising that conspicuous consumption correlates with high sexual dimorphism.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 23, 2024, 07:11:38 pm »

Culture Critic now has a blog, but his taste is still as bad as ever:

https://culturecritic.beehiiv.com/p/architecture-totalitarianism

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https://culturecritic.beehiiv.com/p/architecture-matter

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A Monument to Heaven


Westminster Abbey
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... Prague, possibly the world’s most beautiful city.

https://culturecritic.beehiiv.com/p/war-on-beauty

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19th century sewage infrastructure, for example, had absolutely no business being colorful and ornate. And yet, Victorian craftsmen poured their love into it all the same:


Crossness Pumping Station, London

https://culturecritic.beehiiv.com/p/vernacular-architecture

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Some buildings you never tire of seeing: the Florence Duomo, St. Peter’s Basilica, or Chartres Cathedral.







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they’re high art.

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: February 16, 2024, 08:52:14 pm »

https://nypost.com/2024/02/14/opinion/white-fragility-author-calls-classic-painting-white-supremacist/

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DiAngelo told host Jalon Johnson that the iconic painting “The Creation of Adam” is “the single image I use to capture the concept of white supremacy.”

As she described the masterpiece to the podcast’s whopping 188 YouTube subscribers, DiAngelo made a major gaffe: “God is in a cloud and there’s all these angels, and he’s reaching out and he’s touching — I don’t know who that is, David or something?”


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“And God is white and David is white and the angels are white — that, that is the perfect convergence of white supremacy, of patriarchy.”

She then goes on to mention she was raised Catholic (did Adam and Eve not get a mention in Sunday school?), and recollects looking up at art in church.

“I didn’t think to myself that God is white, but that, in a lot of ways, is power,” she explained. “I don’t need to. God just reflects me … I always belong racially to what is depicted as the human ideal.”

Not only did DiAngelo mislabel Adam as "David", but more importantly she mislabelled Yahweh as "God". But at least she means well.

Previous DiAngelo coverage:

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/hitler-is-more-similar-to-diangelo-than-to-douglas/

Michelangelo's bad taste was also covered here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/face-shapes-and-preferences/msg20324/#msg20324
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 13, 2024, 02:51:42 am »

Supplied by our enemies:

https://incels.is/threads/western-music-is-awful.563334/post-13073830

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jOPAGJq-M

Classical music is so awesome at times it makes me feel smarter listening to it.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 21, 2023, 04:48:10 pm »

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 18, 2023, 09:04:23 pm »

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 15, 2023, 12:39:03 pm »

The song is Counterculture, not Western. If you mean the ship itself and/or the social norms of that era, then I agree.

There are plenty of displays of Western ugliness in movies set in the colonial era. The dance scenes I posted here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg6422/#msg6422

are all from movies.

Earlier I also posted a clip from Amadeus that showcased the aesthetics of that era, but it apparently got taken down. Here is another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy10pGVmc20

Here is a full movie set in that era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViMERz4eJlQ

Note in particular:

1) the utter degeneracy of the duel;

2) the face shape contrast between the two leading females (and of course the leading male makes the wrong choice);

3) the belatedly self-aware clown scene.
Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: November 15, 2023, 08:29:41 am »

Example of total ugliness of westerner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2RnxZnubCM
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 01, 2023, 02:32:45 am »

Even the one on the right is too complicated. We show some simple fountains here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/new-world-raft-design-and-colonialist-response/msg18662/#msg18662

for example:

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Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: October 31, 2023, 11:17:42 pm »

If the Aryan culture promotes simplicity, then the picture on the left is far from Aryan culture's criteria, and the picture to the right is close to it



Posted by: rp
« on: September 30, 2023, 09:59:46 am »

Taj Hotel, Mumbai:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal_Palace_Hotel#History
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he Taj Mahal Hotel was commissioned by Jamsetji Tata and opened its doors to guests on 16 December 1903.

An oft-repeated story concerning the reasoning behind the construction of the hotel was Tata being refused admission into Watson's Hotel, as it was reserved for Europeans. However, the validity of this has been challenged by writer Charles Allen, who wrote that Tata was unlikely to care about such a slight to the extent that he would construct a new hotel. Instead, Allen writes, the Taj was built at the urging of editor of The Times of India who felt a hotel "worthy of Bombay" was needed and as a "gift to the city he loved" by Tata.[3]

The original Indian architects were Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and D. N. Mirza, and the project was completed by an English engineer, W. A. Chambers. The builder was Khansaheb Sorabji Ruttonji Contractor, who also designed and built its famous central floating staircase. The cost of construction was £250,000 (£127 million in 2008 prices).[4]

Originally, the main entrance was on the land-facing side, where the pool now sits.[5]

The original clientele were mainly the Europeans, the Maharajas and the social elites. Many world-renowned personalities from all fields have since stayed there, from Somerset Maugham and Duke Ellington to Lord Mountbatten and Bill Clinton.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 04, 2023, 05:58:33 pm »

Enemy discussion:

https://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=16107944&postcount=46

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More whites should be involved in classical music. Larouche used to say that if one does not have a classical education, one is uneducated. White learning spaces should be baroque and classical spaces.

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Would just say to white youth. Your life would have looked like this in a real white country.

I had actually already posted a few of the videos they are now posting:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg6540/#msg6540

but they have many more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZC-Gu38IXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4JlDC_WOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoNLswKxeYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFIdK7TqNqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1UwxssNRSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StLrOAsY3fQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_Fgv64xXfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I8IXViVprE

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As you listen to classical music, I want white youth to think of all the times some black or brown told you that whites have no culture

"Whites" have Demiurge-worshipping culture.

(And to False Leftists, stop telling me that Russia is not a Western country!!! Can you tell the difference between the content of the videos with Cyrillic title text and those with Latin title text? I certainly can't!)
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 25, 2023, 09:00:59 pm »

Culture Critic asks:

https://twitter.com/Culture_Crit/status/1673079032492048388

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Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe?









Pathetic False Leftist response that accepts Western standards of aesthetics:

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What's the point when Europe was constantly engulfed in war?

True Leftist response that rightists have no idea how to deal with:

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Yeah, Pizza Huts



Only True Leftism can defeat rightism.