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It's hard for me to understand what the author is exactly talking about without seeing more images.
by mewpmewp2 3y ago
It's hard for me to understand what the author is exactly talking about without seeing more images.
- ekianjo 3y agoits a word salad rant. An exercise in style to say mostly something that could be summed up in a few sentences.
- extractionmech 3y agotldr: “cars that look like renderings”
- KineticLensman 3y agoOr just over two pictures, at 1 pic == 1000 words (he used ~2100 words)
- antegamisou 3y agoVery typical of the average HN pseudointellectual actually.
- ajkjk 3y agoAh just walk outside in literally any city.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoDoesn't even matter where I am from? I get different vibes in different cities and within the same city depending on the area as well. And does it specifically mean US cities only? I have been to US, but otherwise I'm from Europe.
- tetromino_ 3y agoThe article is an exaggerated but decently accurate portrayal of many cities and suburbs in the US in 2024. Europe is, I suppose, not as enshittified so far, but it's a matter of time.
- mewpmewp2 3y agoHonestly, where I am, I feel like cities have become better over time.
- ajkjk 3y agoAh yes it's US cities in particular, yeah.
- michaelt 3y agoYou're going to need some more caveats for this, I'm afraid. Most major older cities established a central core in an age where people had taste.
- pixl97 3y agoOr, you're falling to survivorship bias in the sense that only the older cities that had taste still remain whereas the tasteless tasted the blade of the bulldozer.
- roenxi 3y agoThe entire subject is just annoying to respond to; on the topic of beauty it is much more helpful to have people advocating a positive than decrying a negative. It is too easy to complain that the world doesn't meet an unspecified artistic standard. It probably doesn't, but without some details on what standard we're talking about there is no conversation to be had. We don't do fiddly buildings these days, but that is because we're a lot better at building these days and a big building isn't automatically a masterpiece. Although on the art front I'm looking forward to learning what storms lie in wait for the first publicly notable pro-Trump statue in the US. It'll be a real cultural discovery.
- readthenotes1 3y agoPerhaps as, as an artist, the author was doing a write-up as ugly as the subject he was talking about. I could not finish it.
- redcobra762 3y agoPerformance art, maybe.
- delecti 3y agoDo a google image search for "millennial beige". Alternatively, look at just about any house listed on Zillow/Redfin/etc. It's a design style that prioritizes modern designs and neutral colors.