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By analogy, if you are playing music over your entire block 24/7 and you pick music that is really pushing the boundaries of most people's tastes: you're not so
by llamaimperative 2y ago
By analogy, if you are playing music over your entire block 24/7 and you pick music that is really pushing the boundaries of most people's tastes: you're not sophisticated, you're just an asshole.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoTo continue the analogy, each building plays its own music to the city, and the 'destroy art I don't like' here is akin to saying "no, don't play THAT genre to the entire city, only play THIS genre of music to the entire city" Does liking THIS genre of music somehow make one more sophisticated when playing it to the entire city?
- llamaimperative 2y agoNo, it's really not. http://architecture-history.org/schools/BRUTALISM.html http://architecture-history.org/schools/BRUTALISM.html > the Brutalist apothegm “An ethic, not an aesthetic” acquired significance. Explicitly held aesthetic appeal as a non-goal. From day one it has always been identified as "bold", "provocative", and "radical". These arguments for brutalism -- since day one -- are literally describing its lack of harmony in time and place.