Modern western youth, who are mostly leftist, have a hilariously hypocritical relationship with aesthetics. Their politics don't seem to match their aesthetics at all. In fact, their politics often directly destroy whatever they consider to be the most beautiful. 'Dark Academia' but you can't want to protect beautiful old buildings from graffiti tags (even simple delinquent neighborhood markings like Ass2Big) because that's art and you would be a fascist for denying it. Somehow the work of dozens of people who created the buildings -architects, designers, builders matters less than a bored 15 old who decided to vandalize it for funnies and yet somehow a bigger artist because his right to vandalize it trumps their right for it to remain beautiful like they imagined. Even if the building is public and you can't justify 'rebellion against the rich'. The majority of vandalized buildings are public because private property is better protected but you don't care.
'Cottage core' but you support redistribution of wealth. I don't want to alarm you, honey, but cottages are not so effective for equality because of how they can't contain many people at once. To use the land the most effectively, and cheaply, you have to build minimalistic high rise buildings like the USSR did. The USSR also didn't solve equality because party elites had everything and more. Oh, and they also committed barbaric atrocities, such as mass starvations, mass rapes, mass tortures and executions and forced labor. To use the land most equally, you have to give everyone a home and that means destroying nature because high rise buildings are actually hard on resources, even harder than cottages are. Gardens were considered bourgeois.
'Goth' or 'emo' but you support Iran where if you are a woman (or a man too, actually) wearing something slightly outside of Muslim norm you can get murdered.
One would think that if you are a goth, you'd support everyone's right to be free to express their individuality without the shackles of theocracy. But freedom for me, not for thee, I guess.
Aesthetics and ethics of modern people, always a source of hilarity for me.
