Was is peak Western civilazation?

>>212664820 (OP)
No, this is peak.

>>212664820 (OP)
>civilization
Fixed

>>212664915
Brazil is neither western nor civilized

>>212664820 (OP)
>literal globalist modernist brutalist towers
>peak western civilization
What?

>>212664820 (OP)
You mean pre-9/11 New York? It depends what you define as "peak Western civilization." New York is less of a capital of the West, but of the world. In the last 25 years, median household income has more than doubled, violent crime is down 15%, property crime is down 15%, subway system is less reliable overall, but has live tracking now. Unemployment rate about the same. Basically entire city has access to good parks/nature of some kind now. Air quality is twice as good.

On the flip side culturally it's been gentrified (no SOVL), median rent has more than tripled, and schools are still pretty bad.

I think in the zeitgeist the 90s and very early 2000s we were the undisputed champions of the world still. That's changing quickly as we revert to a multipolar world, which has been the norm for most of history. The unipolar superpower of America is gone, which was really only possible since the US could avoid the devastation of WW2. If the US were to return to that status we would need another WW3, except we'd need to not be involved until later on like in WW1 and WW2 which doesn't seem plausible at all. Even limited nuclear exchanges would ruin everything, so not really worth the risk desu.

kill finance
kill bankers

>>212665027
Art Deco was the best architectural style ever made and the yanks only used it for like a decade

>>212665027
They are not brutalist. The term "Brutalist" comes from "beton brut" French for raw concrete. It alludes to the exposure of building materials over decorative design.

>>212665333
Yes and soulless glass towers are the modern version of it.

>>212665318
that would be Art Nouveau

>>212665230
>On the flip side culturally it's been gentrified (no SOVL),
Bloomberg pedestrianizing Times Square killed it
thankfully the real Times Square has been preserved forever in GTA 4 hehe

>>212665353
Brutalism is a subset of modernism that's more specific. The WTC towers were more pure modernism than brutalism. Brutalism usually means you can see the concrete and the material structure that makes up the majority of the building.

>>212665230
Unemployment and crime rates are only "lower" because they don't bother reporting anything anymore.

>>212664820 (OP)
NYC was the birthplace of Ramones so they are based in my book :)

>>212665318
It was too expensive and only a product of wealth concentration in the 1920s. Completely impractical during the Great Depression and WW2, unfortunately.

>>212665500
Stupid fuck

1950s USA was. Back then it was still 90% White, not mixed globohomo

>>212665713
I don't know where you are getting that 90% were white anon

>>212664945
not quite

>>212665784
Census probably

>>212664820 (OP)
>The only structure in this anglo hellhole pic is french
French bros I kneel

>>212668852
The only peak* structure

>>212665784
The census shows the White population was around 90%. Doesn’t include hispanic but estimates put it at 2-5% which is reasonable given the vast majority of hispanics don’t arrive until after the 1965 immigration act destroyed whole communities, towns, cities, and states