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18914366 No.18914366[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why is everything in the modern world so ugly?

>> No.18914371

>>18914366
We lost our belief in God

>> No.18914427

>>18914366
The endless pursuit of a lower bottom-line ultimately lead to radical function-over-form.

>> No.18914431

>>18914366
capitalism

>> No.18914433

Cars

>> No.18914436

>>18914366
Because if things were beautiful, people would have pride on them. Pride is a crime now.

>> No.18914437
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BUILT FAST, NOT TO LAST; CHEAPLY RATHER THAN GRACEFULLY; NOT UNDER GOD'S ENSIGN, BUT WITH GODLESS DESIGN.

>> No.18914438

>>18914366
Why on a material perspective?
>liberal progressivism, globalization, overpopulation
Why on a cosmic scale?
>we live in the Kali yuga stage of civilization, and what >>18914371 said.

The world will return to beauty but it won’t be in our lifetimes.

>> No.18914441

Someone needs to invent mechanized horses so we can get rid of cars.

Sci-fi stables, bros. Sci-fi stables.

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>>18914437
I found a pic of cumgenie bros

>> No.18914448

>>18914427
spbp
It's really not that complicated

>> No.18914463

>>18914366
How do you look at such a picture and fail to understand that the problem is excessive dependence on automobiles, due to zoning, due to lobbyists, due to Moderners having no involvement (let alone interest) in local government?

>> No.18914481

>>18914463
There are few things more soul-draining than commuting. It took me an hour to get home today.

>> No.18914497

>>18914366
where tf are people supposed to park their cars in top image?

>> No.18914772

>>18914371
Since 1980, Americans have been trained to believe that public parks, highly aesthetic formal parks most particularly, are godless communism incarnate.

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>>18914366
It’s an ugly system that means to kill is all.

>>18914371
Belief is religions and churches pacified us and made us obedient slaves. The promise that it gets better in the afterlife is why everything has gone to shit.

>>18914431
State-capitalism

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>>18914366
It’s an ugly system that means to kill us all.

>>18914371
Belief in religions and churches has pacified us, making us obedient slaves. The promise that it gets better in the afterlife is why everything has gone to shit.

>>18914431
State-capitalism