you know what's the most hilarious thing about this "cultural marxism" thingie
it's the fact that there's the mirror of this concept here in Russia, about some evil foreign invention designed to destroy the local culture through destruction of "family values" and shit
only it's supposed to be an invention of capitalists to bring down USSR
lel
Two faces same coin lol
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What's "European heritage" supposed to mean in this context? Jack the Ripper? Post citations to your assertions, m8.
Jack the Ripper is knife deep in East London history m8, also European heritage refers to European heritage, it's a broad label because it will be different for each nation since each nation is so different and the ways in which they are eroded are different. For example, in England the pointless destruction of historical buildings can actually be traced back to before WWI. Then under labour they were pointlessly destroyed to make way for brutalist council flats, then under the tories they were pointlessly destroyed to make way for phallic shards of economic flaunt. I mean, it's hilarious in a pointlessly tragic way, sort of like how English heritage complained that the eye of sauron tower would be a shard piercing the heart of London's historic skyline so they called it the shard. No wait, best example is that the English heritage HQ itself was demolished and replaced with commercial offices LOL
So yeah, English erasure of heritage tends to be for more maximizing space, and the only difference between left wing and right wing architects being in charge is you either end up with concrete or you end up with glass; that idea that utilitarianism trumps all. Sure we get a lot of postmodernists glassing and steeling everything over but there's is a more cynical maximization of space than a yonic endeavour. Then you got some places like Cyprus or the Balkans where a lot of it was destroyed due to strife (I'm excluding the ones destroyed in WWII since that's pretty much all of them).
German one tends to be more out of guilt and psychological trauma of "NEVER AGAIN." Look up City Palace, an old prussian Palace that got destroyed by commies (as in, actual communists in east germany). The Germans have finally got around to rebuilding it, and they intend to have one of the faces of the palace built in the post modern style, the interior in the post modern style and it will house a museum of African and other non-European art. The greatest travesty of all is that they did all this to make it as deliberately unpilkelhauby as possible and they didn't even think to put a cheeky Nandos in it. Seriously, if you're going to go all out at least make it delicious. I can be appeased by cheeky nandos, it is one of my few weaknesses.
In 1976, the East German government oversaw the building of the Palast der Republik, a bronze-glass, steel and concrete block that housed the country’s sham parliament, on the site where the palace stood.
Well now doesn't history repeat itself, ha
Also seriously I don't get it why do artsy people hate gorgeous buildings?
Were their parents killed by roman arches or something? Impaled upon baroque spikes? Crushed by limestone and frescos?
This one is more difficult to find people talking about, since it takes decades to notice and most reporters can't spare the time to talk about steady erosion since it's too slow for most to notice. Actually scratch that, it's not most reporters it's most people ;P
Plus I seem to be getting too caught up in architecture, which is a bit of an issue when you're talking online since you kinda need to have lived where it's happening for a long while to truely grasp what's going on. Still, good to vent on it and make jokes. There is no greater example than Mecca; when that city is turning into Dubai 2 electric boogaloo there really is no hope for anyone anywhere :
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Well to be fair, Mecca won me over with the clock tower. I love big bongalongs and I cannot lie.
Also there's always hilarious stuff going on with EU bureaucracy largely because there's so much of it. Throw a dart at their paperwork, you'll hit something that'll be controversial. Cornish pasties is my favourite one.
From now on, only products made in Britain's most south-westerly county will be allowed to be called Cornish pasties. As well as this geographical restriction, products that include carrots and which are crimped on the top – rather than the correct Cornish style of on the side – will be banned from claiming to be the real article.
The ruling, issued by the European Union, puts it in a select group of products including Champagne and Parma Ham, as well as 42 British specialities such Kentish Ale, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Arbroath Smokies and Cornish clotted cream.
The ruling, which was welcomed warmly by the Cornish food industry, has however, caused consternation around the rest of the country. Many food manufacturers which supply supermarkets are not based in Cornwall, while one Cornish Pasty maker in Devon said European bureaucrats could go to hell.
Morrisons supermarket admitted it would have to rename many of its pasties, which were crimped on the top, or which were made outside of Cornwall. Asda, as well as supplying the genuine article, stock a pasty made in Wales on its deli counters around the country. The supermarket said it was working out what it would do.
But especially weird considering the EU keeps trying to standardize labeling to force everyone to stamp EU flags and not your own country's flag on your produce
And channel 4 is revving up that diversity :DThe Western intellectual elite of the elite will protect you from harmful thoughts :^)