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>i don’t think it’s that deep
Well you're wrong. But the other anon is only partly correct. The real reason we can't have beauty, not just in architecture but in music, art and so on, is equality. Or at least a thin veneer of perceived equality. If you go to Berlin, New York, Paris, or any other major, western city, and all you see are ugly concrete boxes, and then you see those same, ugly, concrete boxes in some third world country. What does that tell you?
Now imagine if you went to any of these cities in the first half of the 1900s, before the second world war. You'd see the marvellous architecture, perhaps you'd go to the theatre, or listen to a symphony play, maybe you'd go to a museum and see all the fine art that has been produced by western civilization over the centuries or even millennia.
Then, when you've done all that, you hop on a plane and go to some African country, you see their mud huts, in between them mud walking paths, in the middle of all the huts there might be a square of sorts, mud ofc. What culture you might see could be a tribal dance in the evening, with drums, and much hooting and hollering.
It would be quite obvious to anyone that the two civilizations, if you can call the latter such, are not equal.
