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They'll continue to do this kind of thing, to make the world think that they aren't an awful, inhibited society. It takes realizing that there is a lack of humanness represented - that many things aren't there for the heart and mind.
Architects and artists taking commissions from dictatorships should be ashamed as they “normalize” regimes of abuse. Some architects and artists in dictatorships will go along to curry favor with a regime, only to later be denounced and either placed in internal exile, forced to flee to another country, imprisoned or even executed. Who knows this very building and others might very well be destroyed by the regime itself (dictators are fickle, they change their minds with dire consequences) or the people themselves, when they overthrow a regime of tyrants and tear down the very buildings that they feel represented their repression. A valued and esteemed artist or architect is no longer valued or esteemed when they support a repressive regime and allowed themselves to be integral to it. -Rj
I have been a big envious of why the foreign countries who do such buildings actually DO them. As a statement of ":Look what we can do as you continue to build mundane, square, tall buildings with no real artistic orientation." WE give our people artistic freedom to build these things!
At low-wage labor costs, on low-value land, funded by "the state", normally. No worries about bank financing, either, as the nation pays for it. AND creates something the populace will travel to to see and experience.
In this case, the "advantage" of a Communist regime is that they can run the country via a Board of Directors, which seems to be pretty stable. Rather than a government which can change every 4-8 years, with different priorities and orientations, by comparison.
They, afterall, built the Great Wall of China, for protection. Which makes Ts "border wall" look so lacking, by comparison. Especially when "the bad guys" have been tunneling underground for decades!!!
They'll continue to do this kind of thing, to make the world think that they aren't an awful, inhibited society. It takes realizing that there is a lack of humanness represented - that many things aren't there for the heart and mind.
ReplyDeleteArchitects and artists taking commissions from dictatorships should be ashamed as they “normalize” regimes of abuse. Some architects and artists in dictatorships will go along to curry favor with a regime, only to later be denounced and either placed in internal exile, forced to flee to another country, imprisoned or even executed. Who knows this very building and others might very well be destroyed by the regime itself (dictators are fickle, they change their minds with dire consequences) or the people themselves, when they overthrow a regime of tyrants and tear down the very buildings that they feel represented their repression. A valued and esteemed artist or architect is no longer valued or esteemed when they support a repressive regime and allowed themselves to be integral to it.
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How bizarre.
ReplyDeleteI have been a big envious of why the foreign countries who do such buildings actually DO them. As a statement of ":Look what we can do as you continue to build mundane, square, tall buildings with no real artistic orientation." WE give our people artistic freedom to build these things!
ReplyDeleteAt low-wage labor costs, on low-value land, funded by "the state", normally. No worries about bank financing, either, as the nation pays for it. AND creates something the populace will travel to to see and experience.
In this case, the "advantage" of a Communist regime is that they can run the country via a Board of Directors, which seems to be pretty stable. Rather than a government which can change every 4-8 years, with different priorities and orientations, by comparison.
They, afterall, built the Great Wall of China, for protection. Which makes Ts "border wall" look so lacking, by comparison. Especially when "the bad guys" have been tunneling underground for decades!!!