School of Life: A Bad YouTube Channel | Big Joel

The School of Life is a bad channel with bad videos on it, imo.

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Footnote on architecture: So, I want to be a bit specific here. I’m not claiming that modernism had NO impact on architecture, that would be silly. But this video makes a far more ambitious point: That modernism’s effect on architecture was SPECIFICALLY that it inspired architects to build less expensive and aesthetically appealing buildings. And I’m totally unsure of why we’d think that. These capitalists weren’t planning on building small, stone or wood buildings in the first place, that was never their plan. They were going to build large skyscrapers and factories, whether the modernists liked it or not. And sure, aesthetic concerns were relevant, but are we really claiming that the budget for these buildings would have been way higher had modernism never become a movement? If people hadn't "decided" that art was subjective? Seems unbelievably ridiculous to me, and I’d like to see at least SOME proof of it. I have looked into it for this video and found nothing, but feel free to send me sources showing that I’m wrong here. The weirdest example of this in the video, that I didn't call out specifically, is that theorists saying taste is subjective produced conditions under which NOBODY was ALLOWED to call buildings ugly anymore, giving capitalists a free pass. Like, that's not how history works. Another problem here, that I didn't get into enough in the video, is that there's a constant conflation of "buildings that were made mostly to serve a purpose" and "elegantly designed modernist buildings that were trying to accomplish a pleasing aesthetic goal and did so well" But like, the Guggenheim was also "inspired by modernism" as were many buildings that were obviously extremely ambitious and attractive to many people. Of course, that conflation is useful to school of life (which simply wants us to reject modernism and embrace tradition, architecturally speaking) but it leads to a problem where, literally all modern buildings can be understood only as a capitalist trick, using modernism as a cudgel. If I ever make a sequel video, I'll clarify this stuff more.

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Why Nice People Are Scary:    • Why Nice People Are Scary  
5 Reasons the Modern World Is so Ugly:    • 5 Reasons the Modern World Is so Ugly  
The Importance of an Unhappy Adolescence:    • The Importance of an Unhappy Adolescence  
The Secret to Leaving Comments Online:    • The Secret to Leaving Comments Online