Woof. “The imagined color of life under communism, gray has revealed itself to be the actual hue of globalized capital.”

Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors

Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to tur...

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V true..

agree, and I've been kinda grossed out by how much modern mass-manufactured homewares and clothes are greyed-out / broken-hued-pastel colours, like even the joy of a bright colour is out of our price range

So many good passages, but this is my favorite.

I bought this issue at a bookstore and loved it so much I subbed

So much construction is *economic* local minimum - just attractive enough to do the job. Given that suburbia is now the overwhelming majority of the American built environment (even in core cities) it's efficient - arrive by car then promptly scuttle inside.

Just started reading it, but making fun of my BILLY bookcases. 😡