But the feedback loop feeds back to worship of government as well. Taking kids to see the white house and congress, as if good things happen there. Part of the allure of those places begins with the architecture being nice.Regarding the rest of your post: government is element of society, and just as with the rest of it, it is a reflection of psychology. So if governmental stuff looks ugly, chances are that the entire society is already ugly to begin with. You never get ugly governmental buildings and only ugly governmental buildings. Every time governmental architecture gets ugly, religious and communal architecture had gotten ugly alongside it. So while I understand the sentiment, do consider the implications.
But I see what you mean about ugly causing ugly. Maybe inoffensive should be the goal of a government building then.
I was talking about the subways specifically, in reference to Bernie. Yes, they had a lot of ugly shit. They also had some 'beautiful' things. Things that, without context, would be beautiful. Again, I give as an example the chandeliers in subway stations. Or the Ukraina Hotel:Literally everything beautiful in Moscow was built during the Tsarist times. Which, for all the flaws, were far better than anything and everything that came afterwards. And in fact the Tsarist Russia was on the way to fixing most of its issues when World War I happened.
Or this Nork Museum:
See, I use beautiful in scare quotes because they are beautiful in the same way that Nazi architecture is beautiful: right in the uncanny valley. Without context, one might like how it looks, but knowing the evil it represents, it gives a disturbing revulsion.
An evil thing cannot create true beauty, because people who know feel the horror behind it. And it's attempt to imitate beauty is all the uglier for it, like it's wearing a skinsuit. Brutalism is the inverse of this: a purposeful rejection of beauty, which I can see your point as also bad.
Instead, actual, inoffensive utilitarian design is best for government, IMO, because the last thing we want is worship of government.
Not an electric light of modern power, tbc. Basically, modern ones are more powerful, so when driving at night you might be blinded similar to a headlight shining in your eyes. Raising it above eye level & pointing it down solves that problem. Also, pointing it down means that more of the light goes where it is needed (on the street) and less into people's house windows while they are trying to sleep. Finally, raising it up allows you to take full advantage of the improved brightness, and thus have less of the poles. Basically, the pole's base design needed to be updated to better harness the new light source's properties.Enlighten me please.
Why exactly can't you take the light pole on the left and put an electric light in it?
is it gremlins? will gremlins eat the electric lightbulb if it is placed in a pretty metal pole instead of an ugly one?