Aesthetocracy
Yep. We’re headed there.
Pick your favorite colors, sounds, textures, smells, and flavors carefully. Might mean life or death in a decade.
Grey/beige apocalypticonomics gets this fundamentally wrong. Aesthetics matter more under collapse scenarios, not less.
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I don’t approve btw. Aesthetocracy is the worst ocracy.
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Hard agree with the last sentence, but deeply curious about the rest of it. How does the life-and-death bit play out?
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Aesthetics shaping our time
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The first thing to jump our was the observation of an "anonymous global aesthetic" that is popping up in new construction around the world.
You know this when you see it. Lots of light neutral tones, modern, commoditized, nice, bland, generic.
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A fav children’s book addresses this more or less. Upshot? Long winters need colorful aesthetics to be survived scholastic.com/teachers/books
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