Return to normalcy, I notice that we share the keywords GROTESQUE and GROTESQUELY, and that we are both using them in relation to the absurdly showy ultra-vulgarity that goes with limitless unassuageable greed.
It was architecture that got me using these words, first in Ireland, later in Russia -- especially in Moscow, where reactions to …
Return to normalcy, I notice that we share the keywords GROTESQUE and GROTESQUELY, and that we are both using them in relation to the absurdly showy ultra-vulgarity that goes with limitless unassuageable greed.
It was architecture that got me using these words, first in Ireland, later in Russia -- especially in Moscow, where reactions to the dull uniformity of socialist housing took such ridiculously perverse forms.
But the spread of gross, overblown ugliness has been worldwide, starting with cars, infecting souls, contaminating entire societies.
No humor. Striking, the total absence of any sense of the ridiculous... how so many human beings, both individuals and masses, have come to look and behave like caricatures.
MAGA, with its Coney Island sideshow Caesar... and the juvenile mine's-bigger-than-yours idiocy of so many of our political, hitech and financial giants. Carnival giants, egos like galaxies.
Return to normalcy, I notice that we share the keywords GROTESQUE and GROTESQUELY, and that we are both using them in relation to the absurdly showy ultra-vulgarity that goes with limitless unassuageable greed.
It was architecture that got me using these words, first in Ireland, later in Russia -- especially in Moscow, where reactions to the dull uniformity of socialist housing took such ridiculously perverse forms.
But the spread of gross, overblown ugliness has been worldwide, starting with cars, infecting souls, contaminating entire societies.
No humor. Striking, the total absence of any sense of the ridiculous... how so many human beings, both individuals and masses, have come to look and behave like caricatures.
MAGA, with its Coney Island sideshow Caesar... and the juvenile mine's-bigger-than-yours idiocy of so many of our political, hitech and financial giants. Carnival giants, egos like galaxies.
Black holes where hearts should be.