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....
Indeed, the African-Brazilian population live mostly in Favelas, wich they glamourized during the Lula admin and are called "Comunidades" now. They are kept stupid via schools. This started to get really in the face since the first Lula leftist Gov back in 2003. Lula was in charge since 2003 with the only real interruption was one term of Bolsonaro who did miracles with his team they even came out of the Plandemy as the Country that handled the crisis the best WW! Inflation below the ones in EU and US. Now if you are pretending to visit, it depends what your focus would be: Nature? Culture? Beaches? The Closest to African Culture would be the City of Salvador, Bahia, where I live. While the South of Brasil ( Paraná/Santa Catarina/ Rio Grande do Sul) is heavily European influenced. German Oktoberfest, Italian culture among others. I´ll be happy to give you some Tips.
Sure I’ll mark this and be back when I am ready to visit this fall. I saw in the Brazil media that Bolsonaro was given a hard time for treating COVD with dewormers like Alinia. Amazing how the worldwide press attacked any leader that used Hcq, ivermectin or alinia
cool... make sure to visit me if you come to Salvador, Bahia... I Own 2 Restaurants where you are safe to eat! LOL