tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post3620709356748099150..comments2023-11-04T19:54:43.564+00:00Comments on fantastic journal: ManIFestoCharles Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-56035037350384481242008-07-21T17:41:00.000+00:002008-07-21T17:41:00.000+00:00As is, indeed, the horrible pejorative expression ...As is, indeed, the horrible pejorative expression 'political correctness' itself. It's another reactionary sleight of hand, taking the principles of equality (feminism, anti racism etc) and somehow turning them into their opposite. As if the world were somehow more free, less controlled before legislation promoting equality. There is a strangely prevalent idea that only the left legislates. All the laws of the right are somehow natural.Charles Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-32021991643222037242008-07-21T17:35:00.000+00:002008-07-21T17:35:00.000+00:00The whole thing strikes me as weird and confused a...The whole thing strikes me as weird and confused and, typically, blames the wrong things on the wrong people. And its all such infantile posturing. Slightly away from the point but I've been amazed at how the language of civil liberties and 'freedom' has been co-opted by people who have no interest in any such thing. Everyone from climate change deniers, countryside alliance members to people like Peter Hitchens now routinely accuse everyone else of some political correct form of mind control. It's such a gross perversion.Charles Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-77916345804586483372008-07-19T08:57:00.000+00:002008-07-19T08:57:00.000+00:00Silly me, I thought it was a satire, the funniest ...Silly me, I thought it was a satire, the funniest thing since the Vorticist manifesto. All that we assert, we fundamentally oppose, we call on, etc. all in the name of architects right iunfettered self indulgence. You have to wonder if they have ever had a job - real clients tend to look askance at architects indulging themselves with client's money.<BR/>And "Good architecture need not have an ethical dimension"? All just an infantile disorder of the right, perhaps, but there is something quite weird about a crypto-fascist denunciation of an orthodoxy that is already further down the road of totalitarian self indulgence than even their wildest dreams. Don't they read magazines, haven't they heard of Dubai?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-32217510240577663732008-07-18T19:05:00.000+00:002008-07-18T19:05:00.000+00:00Yeah, exactly - see also their bizarre belief that...Yeah, exactly - see also their bizarre belief that 'morality' is some architectural orthodoxy today, as if architecture isn't a consummate instrument of class cleansing; the curious absence of corporate interests from their list of the vested interests that threaten mile-high towers or whatever; and, y'know, haven't they noticed the towers and monuments shooting priapically up everywhere from Moscow to Dubai to Beijing in the last few years? There's lots of money for shouty architecture, if you don't mind helots banned from joining unions constructing your buildings.<BR/><BR/>The sad thing is that I, for one, and clearly a few other people, would be entirely up for futurism and humanism (incompatible ideas though they might be) and an attack on the timid Wallpaper Modernism that seems to be all over London, at least - but not if it's going to be on these terms. <BR/><BR/>It's classic libertarian guff, lots of this - the main role of the 'state' in British politics at the moment is in setting up PPP's, funding botched privatisations and running up huge bureaucratic bills , but something really needed - oh, like a mass council housing programme - is only ever going to come from the state.owen hatherleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943115307136493045noreply@blogger.com