/lit/ - Literature

any books that talk about the ugliness of modern architecture?

Rome fell once before, and now it falls again; but whereas the ancient Romans left behind coliseums and aqueducts—monuments of human greatness, impervious to the passage of time—we leave behind nothing worthwhile, except soulless modernist architecture and a desecrated planet. 1960s were the last gasp of the modern human-being, before his imminent extinction, before his replacement by cultureless, artless automotons, infected by parasitic materialism and obsessed with instant gratification, and the pathetic legacy he leaves behind, after he's driven himself to ruin. Total darkness on Earth, an eternal eclipse.

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the greatest meme of the modern world is the idea that 'grey' morality is somehow right, and that petty 'relatable' villains are superior to genuine forces of evil

Morgoth has a far greater depth and complexity, not to mention authenticity, than any of these 'reasonable' villains you see in forgettable modern fiction.

you see the pure evil of Morgoth all around us in the modern world. go to any city and look at the disharmonious architecture arrogantly constructed almost as a mockery of the beautifully harmonious buildings that used to make cities a pleasure to look at in the 19th century, just as orcs are a mockery of elves.