I love love love that we're having these discussions about housing first and tiny homes, what if the homeless damage them, let's build (new) traditional custodial institutions for the violent, and so on...
...at exactly when architectural Brutalism is having a critical revival, don't tear down the Moriyama Science Centre, look at those beautiful Brutalist churches...
We scrounge ratty old buildings for inadequate, dangerous shelters, and haggle and whinge to the point of inaction about housing people in shipping containers or surplus hotels, but laud "jail cell chic".
It goes to show that "The cruelty is the point", that "We'll give you the world if only you bow down before [our economic truisms]". Some people have taken into their hearts that human suffering is a renewable resource.
Agreed. It's interesting how much analysis is given to the outcomes of these less cruel positions, at the same time that one hears calls for "more policing" as if that is not literally advocating for greater rates of incarceration and authoritarian violence without further consideration.
...at exactly when architectural Brutalism is having a critical revival, don't tear down the Moriyama Science Centre, look at those beautiful Brutalist churches...
We scrounge ratty old buildings for inadequate, dangerous shelters, and haggle and whinge to the point of inaction about housing people in shipping containers or surplus hotels, but laud "jail cell chic".
It goes to show that "The cruelty is the point", that "We'll give you the world if only you bow down before [our economic truisms]". Some people have taken into their hearts that human suffering is a renewable resource.