Is the World Getting Uglier?
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Mm. Why is everything so drab right now? Is it also same same?
Got these coffee shops, they all look the same. Architecture looks standardized, buildings are colorless, cars are interchangeable. Then on the other side you have Trump's gilded oval office. His imagin. His garish vision for the reflecting pool.
Say what you will about Donald Trump. He and the modern right they have a a theory of beauty. Not my theory of beauty, but A theory. For a while now I've been wanting to do an episode on this question that I've seen a lot of other people ask and that has bother me too.
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