GLOBALIST ARCHITECTURE: Why everything in the US looks the same: The 'McDonaldization' of America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gwttgslBc
Not necessarily a good analysis (talks about "carbon emissions", etc.) but still identifies how globalist corporations have been for decades uprooting natural organic variety in architecture and urban planning and imposing their fake plastic crap on us.
This really got me thinking:
If everything looks the same, if you have the same chain outlets and same architecture everywhere, then why travel? You're not broadening your horizons or having a unique cultural experience. So, why not stay home in your "15 minute city", eh?
I doubt that when Levitt started building his Levittown suburbia in the 1950s that "15 minute cities" were a gleam in anyone's eye. But the logic of standardization of everything in the built environment certainly leads in that direction.
A critical point the host makes right at the end is that consumers seem to WANT this kind of predictable standardization. It's popular, now, anyway. Perhaps not so much a century or more ago, where local differences and variety were appreciated and valued. Travel was for seeing the differences, broadening your horizons, etc. Difference and "local character" were valued.
There is something psychological going on, because all this love of a standardized, packaged, experience corresponded with New Deal/Great Society shift towards government controlling more and more aspects of life.
Collective psychological fallout from WWI/depression/WWII? It must have been an incredibly turbulent time for people born in the the early part of the 20th century to have lived through that. Did it make the people of that generation desperate for stability, for "big daddy government" to look after all our problems? A desire for "big business" to provide a seamless, problem-free shopping/living experience when there were so many problems in other aspects of life?
Perhaps that PTSD and the collective psychological need for protection and security by government and business (rather than self-reliance and self-governance) did ultimately lead to the WEF/Club of Rome/rest of Cabal's control.
At least, that's my theory for the moment....
I've been calling newer-built houses, small and large, 'McMansions' for what seems like ages!
New houses with all the environmental and Green Agenda BS will likely need to be torn down if they cannot be repurposed or reconfigured. Anything “standard design” built after ~2005 appears to be intentionally low quality with substandard materials and design.
We are seeing this in prices with older houses, well-maintained much more valuable than nearly everything new. Inverted price curve new-to-old on similar square footage comp. New house prices would collapse by 50-90% if not being held up by BlackRock’s Alladin AI bidding them up unlawfully. They are garbage.