1. England has failed to produce much in the way of beauty for about 100 years because the upper middle classes and middle classes took over. In the 19th century the rising middling sorts looked up to the aristocracy. This produced some beauty in housing & art.
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2. Since the aristos bowed out, we’ve made some impressive & possibly sublime things. But we can’t do beauty. We can do maintenance through middle class orgs like the National Trust, but as the middle class decays it’s possible we’ll see conservation deliquesce to destruction.
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3. It’s plausible that we’ll see iconoclasm set in within the next 50 years as society polarises between a tiny wealthy elite and a enormous, underemployed working class. I could imagine art & country houses being destroyed as “white supremacist”.
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4. A growing Muslim population will also make overt symbols of the country’s Christian legacy controversial and provocative. It’s quite likely they’ll be effaced. Statues of Victoria etc will almost certainly be removed in the next 30yrs due to imperial legacy.
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