Yes

@Tero I wouldn't exactly blame capitalism for this.

Those two old images are from an era when capitalism was its least impeded

i would disagree

The two new ones are a result of govt regulations and building codes

spiritually, people were still actively christian in the old photo
this was the greatest impediment to unbridled capitalism

Oh, I don't consider those things to be antithetical whatsoever

It's usually either that the inheritors left the property to rot away or there were no inheritors and nobody claimed it, so either the government or whatever inheritor remained sold the property off

@Tero In a hypercapitalist situation, there's no big-brother government to help you out when you're down on your luck.

It's a free-for-all of self responsibility. And its this environment in which being a part of a church community is the most necessary.

I don't see it coincidental at all that religiosity fell at the same time we started to look to the State for solutions to our problems

so where are all the corporate HQs that look like this
and all the churches that are square glass boxes

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@Tero Most churches I see today are square glass boxes, not gonna lie

Who the fuck is jay powel

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weird

i don't think i've ever seen a glass box church

Oh shit, it's the Federal Reserve chair

HE'S BREAKING THE CONDITIONING

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hold up

is he not jewish?

this would be the first nonjew chair of the fed in generations..

@Tero About that architecture: You know how expensive it is to make something like that? And how many code violations it has?

1. Building codes from the STATE prevent that stuff
2. The modern cost of labor from regulations and minimum wage from the STATE make it cost inefficient

it's literally illegal to build beautiful stuff nowadays

it would always cost more regardless of regulation, because it has a lot of decoration and it's stone brick etc.

Sure, but not a LOT more. The increased cost was manageable by an increased lifespan and lower maintenance

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and there's a ton of perfectly code-legal decoration you can do on the exterior of a building anyway

especially in places with lax rules on buildings like texas

Maybe, but the states are not as different when it comes to code as you think

It's mostly uniform

But you're asking "Why don't people try to make their buildings look soulfull?"

Because the people who design these have no souls. That's why.

Artists haven't had souls in well over 100 years.

indeed

well i wouldn't say over a hundred years

They're just a bunch of cock sucking faggots trying to one-up each other in how they can deconstruct beauty

well the deconstructing beauty comes back to not being christian anymore i would say

Agreed

if you believe on god you have a basis for objective truth, morality, and beauty

how do you subvert objective beauty with a straight face

You don't. They get off on this shit

They're ecstatic about their destruction