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Or team color one could've teamed up with other color and the communists could have not won and their cities could've been firebombed into ashes instead.
On Earth 2 we're not surrounded by soul-sucking Brutalist architecture that seemingly popped out of nowhere and DEi tribunals that no one can remember voting for
I see what you were going for, but no, at the end of the war everyone like me had their both-metaphorical-and-often-much-more-literal dicks smashed into the dirt by the communists and their allies
...you think that Nazi architecture was any less brutalist?
Speaking plainly, this mockup does not make me despair in the same way modern drop down florescent lights and cheap thin plywood does. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1986-029-02%2C_%22Germania%22%2C_Modell_%22Gro%C3%9Fe_Halle%22.jpg
But I live in a nice house on a hill with some land where I don't have to deal with any of that day-to-day. Maybe I would feel differently if I did? (This sentence was facetious - meant to be playful - was not speaking plainly)
Thin plywood and fluorescent lights aren’t products of brutalism though; the former long predates it and the latter are popular because they’re much cheaper to operate than the previous incandescent bulbs.
Yeah, most of the stuff that people deride "brutalism" for is less a conscious choice of some boutique architechtural style and more just wanting to do stuff for cheap, something many countries particularly did in the 60s-70s when urbanization was in the full swing and housing needed to be created fast for millions of rural workers moving to the cities.
A lot of people want "prettier housing" but it's much rarer to actually want to pay the cost - one can see it in how often such desires are phrases like "they should have built that like this [decades ago]..."
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Like 3 days ago I made a scripturally-based crack at you for acting smarmy - went over like a lead balloon, kings to you Mondego - but plywood and fluorescent aren't brutalist?
Technically correct, the best kind of correct. Rather than waving around us all like a caveman, please permit me to ask how many friends did that win you, and how productive was this exchange?
I really don’t see the connection between fluorescent lights and brutalism other than that, because they became the dominant lightbulb type in the mid century, most brutalist buildings used them (but so did every other kind of building).
They all suck and only came about after the war
We used to build Cathedrals
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