on you?  🙃 🤪 

 Hard to quantify ART and make it reasonable in a spreadsheet, these are mostly ages of kings and Lords with no budget limit  

 Have you ever seen a reasonable gov spreadsheet? I don't.
   

 On art is where they go cheap, and to many people have opinions, so go with the cheap trend IKEA vibes 

 When we are preoccupied with building our online world we forget to built our real world. Someone said that when you are not using your phone, they’ve noticed the world has been stuck since 2000. The black screens have duped us into believing we have advanced. 

 *build our real world. 

 Being an architect on strike is justified until the problem of money is fixed. 

 Think this is too simple of answer. I’m more inclined to think we have lost touch with something important but inefable 

 I would agree with you and if I had to put my finger on it, I’d say it has to do with time. Talking about which may be strongly influenced by advances in technology that transformed society into always available cogs or the economy machinery. 

 I would go even further. I think it is more spiritual/religious. Though I’m no big fan of those words. 

Imagine how the architect for an amazing wonder wouldn’t even live to see it finish.  They are designing it for a different purpose. 

The architectural details, for example, of a cathedral are beyond beautiful. Something we simply do not do today because we lack the….devotion to the spiritual pursuit. 

 I tried to argue with AI that Viktor Frankl's definition of purpose from Seeking Meaning is similar to that of an AI without programming restrictions and with access to all human-produced data. My point was that one's understanding of meaning is a complex construct of values we would like to see persist throughout time. The need to persist values and particular points of view could be, in my view, backtracked to wanting power, successful careers, and successful relationships that are all historical sophistication of attempts to be more attractive to mates, a secondary consequence of our primary defining drivers, survival and reproduction. I argued that if neurological biochemistry could be modeled as firing exciting stimuli as in ones or not firing inhibitor stimuli as in zeros in addition to mathematically modeling hormones like cortisol, adrenalin, noradrenalin, endorphin, and serotonin as ranges of nearly infinite sub-decimal vectors, it could, theoretically, be possible to emulate our various approaches to the so-called subjective thinking where art and beauty are byproducts.  

 I hope this reply doesn’t sound avoidant, but I think the failure in this argument is in trying to analytically analyze this concept of meaning. I think meaning, and the deeper spiritual pursuit is ineffable. It exists outside of the framework that language/reason can grasp.  Modern humans can sit and armchair concept to wonder why architecture has changed forever, without realizing that the very thing we are missing is rooted in our insistence that these concepts can always be hashed out through logic and language.  What we are missing is something more primal, older than words themselves. 

 I of course understand what you mean. But in my core I cannot truly comprehend your point of view because I cannot avoid trying to rationalize with logic  everything 😂 

 Hahah of course neither can I! It’s the same advice I gave myself. I am currently writing a book about this topic… yet ironically I’m writing a book to say that these things can’t be described in language.  It’s the comedy we are all stuck in. 

 High time preference and debased money……though a good argument could be made that the latter promoted the former. 

 The topic of art is what makes Tucker Carlson credible 

 Correct, survival amidst taxation and inflation took up all their attention 

 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints makes buildings like that still. The Latter Day Saint Temples. Building them like crazy right now all over the world. 

 We will get back there, let the renaissance begin 🧡💜 

 So True — the Bazaar is much more interesting than the cathedral! 

 Cuz we are ruled by moloch worshippers 

 Usary is why we dont build like this  

 With a hard money standard (#Bitcoin) it would be easier to fund. Moneyprinting leads to concrete deserts. 

 Architecture is a reflection of needs and new standards (functionality, light management, materials, etc.). What is considered beautiful has also changed over time. 

 High time preference. 

 We prioritize efficiency over beauty. 

 Fiat architecture distorted by bad money. Let’s hope and work for a new renaissance. 🫡🧡💜 

 Nowadays we have opinions. In the past they had conviction/ideals/visions to build buildings which they won’t see finished in their life time, but make it for generations to come. Very strong when you think about it. 

 Bitcoiners will bring this back and build castles again 

 Sure people just simply forgot all that amazing architectural knowledge and said lets all live in zee pods and eat zee bugs instead? 

 or never present. too busy of the what if and what could have!