Architecture is the primary battleground of mainstream cults. Your cult becomes normalized in proportion to the amount of real estate it controls.
Dumb cults invest in statues and one-of-a-kind unique properties like fancy temples. Smart cults invest in mass commodity building.
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Cults that need to affirm their importance use Greek revival architecture (courthouses, stock exchanges, etc.)
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th cults of the nouveau riche, immigrants making it, and so on
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Yes but what architecture does it map to?
Ghetto I think. To the extent that’s a non-vernacular style via recoding (eg. Edison, NJ for Indians)
Upper class immigrants simply blend into local middle class
Cc: is there “immigrant architecture”?


