Why did we stop building beautiful things?

@Jacob I agree that it is masterfully composed but to be honest I associate it so much with the communist losers I knew from high school that it's hard for me to enjoy.

@Ben Rainsford - OH its expensive and doesnt require rebuilding in 15 years

*modern cannibalistic economy intensifies

Classical or the futurism being posted architecture isn't even expensive when you compare it to garbage modernist architecture that plagues our cities.

@metasophocles Dude I agree with you. The final redpill is that every side in politics exaggerates how horrible their enemies are.

There were absolutely good parts about the Soviet Union, even if Stalin and his buddies were pretty bad guys.

@godric That's understandable

I don't get how people reconcile that the soviet union was a totalitarian hellscape where everyone starved with the fact that they decimated half their continent and went to space.

this is a stock photo but you still the idea of the glory of mighty italian futurism

lol the idea that everyone was starving in the Soviet Union is absurd

German scientists sure helped getting the Soviets to space

@Kingfish I am starting to think it doesn't translate as well into real life as I thought.

Same with the US though

If we're going full theoretical architecture, I really liked the various culture's aesthetics in Lord of the Rings, they were all different fusions/remixes of different European cultures.

It was an inefficient distribution system, but we can see that a healthy economy is not the end all be all of a healthy civilization

LOTR future is the ultimate goal of humanity @Wood-Ape - OK/MN

Since my father is a stonemason I’ll put in a pitch for brick and stone buildings

@godric it absolutely does not lmao

im mostly kidding

a future they never made it to. F

Unfortunately very little Numenorean archietecture survived the end of the Second Age. Even in Minas Tirith, only the black wall is auhentically Numenorean, with the rest of the city being constructed or rebuilt by Gondorean Kings durring the early third age.

The most intact survivng Numenorean structure in Middle Earth today is Isengard, recently given to the use of the benevelent Wizard, Saruman the Wise

One thing you guys need to remember is that much of the image of the Soviet Union is due to immigrants exaggerating for sympathy.

I grew up around Eastern European immigrants, I know this.

Immigrants from literally every country will try to convince you that their life was absolute hell.

Actual Eastern Europeans in Eastern Europe are more likely to give you an answer like, "eh, there was good parts and bad parts" while immigrants will go on about "waaa poor me".

I'm not gonna try to tell you it was a first world paradise, but the idea that it was Africa tier starvation is insane.

@Ben Rainsford - OH did we just become best friends

anybody who posts Minas Tirith with an accurate outer wall is a friend of mine

I wonder how many other dissident right groups have long conversations about European art styles. I'm willing to bet it's just us and GI

And yet even the height of Numenor itself was a pale shadow compared to the bright but short-lived Noldor kingdoms, which themselves were echoes of the far West.

*FAR WEST POSTING NOW

Tolkien was a true mid-century Anglo. He could not conceive of a cosmology and civilizational cycle that was not ultimately phases of decline.

FINGOLFIN GANG

THIS IS NOW ANTI MORGOTH HOURS

Tasteful edit

yeah I goofed

been re reading lately

I read once a year tbh

good night evropa

any of you guys pick up Gondolin?

https://youtu.be/caeRXCoFBLg

Any you gents read the wheel of time or lionessa yet?

@Kingfish No, I have too many books I haven't read already.

I have the first WOT book