Posted on 02/26/2014 7:22:12 AM PST by C19fan
Christian Scientists have won their long, twilight struggle against brutalism -- so says a wrecking ball at the corner of 16th and I streets in Washington, D.C.
For what seemed like an eternity, members of the Third Church of Christ, Scientist fought with architecture historians and city bureaucrats over the right to tear down their own church. Churchgoers never liked their 1971 classic brutalist structure -- an architectural style that is well, brutal -- and have even suggested it has something to do with their dwindling numbers.
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There is nothing uglier than Boston’s City Hall.
Holidays in Hell, P.J. O'Rourke
I don’t mind that style — even kind of like it.
But my German language professor in college cracked me up when he said that the university’s Main Classroom Building — looked like a cell block!
That further cements in my mind that the adherents of communism are either complete idiots or absolutely evil.
I think you’ve identified the two poles, but in between there are the adherents of Communism who are somewhat evil idiots without being complete idiots.
> Churchgoers never liked their 1971 classic brutalist structure — an architectural style that is well, brutal — and have even suggested it has something to do with their dwindling numbers.
They’re strong to the finish coz they eats their spinach.
The east building of the National Gallery in DC is hideous.
https://www.google.com/search?q=east+building+national+gallery
On the right side of this picture, there’s an oddly compelling but still ugly building, picture is of downtown Rochester NY.
I think the term you’re looking for is “useful idiots.”
No. “Useful idiots” were never Communists: they were folks who unwittingly aided the cause of Communism. I just think there’s a middle ground between your complete idiots and absolutely evil where one could find Communists.
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