"Should 'Form follows function' be the motto for True Left aesthetics?"
Perhaps that accompanied with "Keep it simple stupid!"?
And for those that like videos CNN just put one up in regards to Putin's home, to reiterate the point from this post:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/?message=18212Never-before-seen images of Putin's lavish home and reputed girlfriend Roman Badanin, an independent Russian journalist who left Russia after facing the threat of a prison sentence, discusses his investigation into Russian President Vladimir Putin's secret, lavish lifestyle and details about his reputed girlfriend. #CNN #News
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What is it with dictators and gold furniture? Pathetic.
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The American Media’s Awkward Fawning Over Hitler’s Taste in Home DecorWhen digging through archives for records of female architects and designers active in the 1930s, Dr. Despina Stratigakos, an architectural historian at the University at Buffalo, came across something unexpected.
She found old files from the Nazi party–and owing to their notoriously meticulous record keeping–they contained invoices for things like wooden chairs, carpets, and velvet curtains. One name in particular kept popping up: that of Gerdy Troost, Adolf Hitler’s close confidante and preferred interior designer.
Troost was responsible for decorating Hitler’s homes, from apartments in Berlin and Munich, to the Berghof, his vacation residence in the Bavarian Alps. And in the 1930s, this was excellent fodder for the nascent lifestyle magazines that were quickly growing in popularity in the United States...
Interestingly, America and Germany share the fact that both countries waged a revolutionary war against Western Civilization even though both arose from it.
Continuing with the article:
According to Stratigakos, the propaganda machine had two goals for Hitler’s public persona: “There was this thundering leader, the messiah on the podium. And then there was this guy who was shown playing with his dogs, who was really relatable and evoked our empathy. The two depictions really worked well together,” she continues, “People really like the powerful leader, but one that they could actually relate to.”
And making Hitler seem relatable was exactly what his interior designer, Troost, intended to do. “I wanted to show [in the book] that these ‘fluff’ pieces are not harmless. I want people to pay attention to them,” says Stratigakos. “People seem to think, ‘Oh it’s just decor, or it’s mundane, and it doesn’t have any moral value to it.’ But people need to look at this kind of media as critically as they look at more political media.”
World War II had already begun when Life decided to publish photos of Hitler’s living spaces, as well as photos of some of his paintings. Apparently, the feature had been planned well before Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II, but the editors decided to run it anyway. The magazine’s editorial staff, naturally aware of world events, decided to write slightly mocking image captions, lampooning Hitler’s sensibilities and the hypocrisy of his taste when compared to his leadership style.
But American readers were not happy about this. “People actually wrote in, taking Life magazine to task for treating Hitler sarcastically,” says Stratigakos. “One of the letters I remember reading even says something along the lines of, ‘you know, Hitler’s house is far more tasteful than Roosevelt’s.’ So the response was really surprising. American readers did not appreciate the magazine making fun of Hitler’s taste.”
All this while the war had started, and the wheels of industrial genocide had begun to turn. “People bought into this notion of a non-political, domestic Hitler, and this was exactly what the propagandists wanted,” notes Stratigakos. “There were built-in audiences for these kind of stories. It’s profoundly uncomfortable, and truly haunting.”
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-american-medias-awkward-fawning-over-hitlers-taste-in-home-decorPerhaps it was merely a sense of shared blood memory? I suppose blood memory could make a person uncomfortable and feel haunted at times, almost as if their ancestors were speaking directly to them?