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What's the point of a town without any industry, filled with inhumanly scaled sculptures? It's like a tomb, only dead people would want to live there. They seem
by pessimizer 3y ago
What's the point of a town without any industry, filled with inhumanly scaled sculptures? It's like a tomb, only dead people would want to live there. They seemed to think that it would be populated by the a segment of the independently wealthy that they're referring to as "artists," but those people don't want to live in the middle of nowhere without adequate luxury services and servants. And then the income of the town was meant to come from tourists wanting to stare at the "artist's" work. For free. There's no door charge, and there's no luxury infrastructure for the visitors to spend money on during their bicycle trips between massive concrete paperweights.
Pretty sure the goal of this project was to funnel somebody's, probably the state's, funds into the contractors who covered an acre of ground in a thick concrete slab, and similar, admittedly stunning, feats. I wonder if the concrete in those sculptures is of the same quality as the concrete of Genoese bridges.
- toyg 3y agoYou're being cynical. We used to have ambitions and utopias, as societies; we used to think the future can be whatever we want it to be, that work would be done by machines, that we would live free in our flying cars, that nobody would go hungry, etc etc. Obviously, it didn't happen; partially because some of these ambitions were unrealistic, but partially because we simply stopped believing it was possible to live without an incessant capitalist-driven commercialization of every inch of our existence.