An addition to #2 about our new peanut butter culture. Virtually all culture is a fake and place-less imitation of some authentic culture that preceded it. See new construction: when it’s not a tribute to the styles of the ancients, much of modern architecture is a take-off on the sharp angles and clean lines and “form over function” of …
An addition to #2 about our new peanut butter culture. Virtually all culture is a fake and place-less imitation of some authentic culture that preceded it. See new construction: when it’s not a tribute to the styles of the ancients, much of modern architecture is a take-off on the sharp angles and clean lines and “form over function” of 1960s design. Everything in Hollywood is an economically-minded prequel or sequel or remake, and now even the genres are collapsing only into Marvel or Star Wars, or trying to become the next Marvel or Star Wars. Every developing burg has the same businesses: gourmet coffee shops, craft breweries and CrossFit. We are now like aliens without our own culture, but who take our childlike understanding of what authentic culture is and generate a still-place-less kabuki impersonation of lost design.
... or Tradcaths not realizing medieval society would still see them as chumps and spiritual lightweights in their communities... or even people like me who hate to realize the Byzantine-like empire where you couldn't bother a senator for an important matter because he was having spiritual ecstasy while praying near his icons... isn't coming back.
An addition to #2 about our new peanut butter culture. Virtually all culture is a fake and place-less imitation of some authentic culture that preceded it. See new construction: when it’s not a tribute to the styles of the ancients, much of modern architecture is a take-off on the sharp angles and clean lines and “form over function” of 1960s design. Everything in Hollywood is an economically-minded prequel or sequel or remake, and now even the genres are collapsing only into Marvel or Star Wars, or trying to become the next Marvel or Star Wars. Every developing burg has the same businesses: gourmet coffee shops, craft breweries and CrossFit. We are now like aliens without our own culture, but who take our childlike understanding of what authentic culture is and generate a still-place-less kabuki impersonation of lost design.
... or Tradcaths not realizing medieval society would still see them as chumps and spiritual lightweights in their communities... or even people like me who hate to realize the Byzantine-like empire where you couldn't bother a senator for an important matter because he was having spiritual ecstasy while praying near his icons... isn't coming back.