I rarely refer to actual YouTube videos so when I do, it would tend to mean that particular one is something special - and it is, this one from PJW.
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| Paul Joseph Watson, with Alex Jones |
Taking a step back from the glittering, fizzy delight that this short video is, I can say that Watson is overdoing things more than just a bit - even though the fundamental points he makes about the suppressing nature of post-industrial 'gigant-ism' and 'industrial efficiency' brutalism in architecture are very sound. If we just jump up on his bandwagon it's satisfying to be accusatory and more or less, a 'conspiracy theorist' about modern architecture. But if we want to really understand things, then it is crucially important to realize that not all the mistakes started out from the beginning as conspiracies to suppress the 'ordinary' people and turn them into compliant slaves. Many architects had very romantic and positive conceptions about industrialism - but these ideas and ideals were completely subverted and the power of architectural design exploited through its philosophical points of vulnerability, for political ends. And only thus can we say that eventually, yes, there is a systemic fascist control mentality at work in modern design and building design.
It's not about (just) being fair to history and to the architects themselves - it's about understanding how the human race operates, how its own group psychology quickly alters and removes real human motivations and supplants them with specious justifications that cover over the crimes of idea theft and financial corruption that feeds off public building programs.
Some people used Le Corbusier - and he might not have been wise enough to pull his ego back from being tricked and his 'soul' (the energy and life of his work and ideas) manipulated for material gain by those people.
The sci-fi futurism of Le Corbusier was attractive - and easily attracted victims to itself to be slaughtered by the exploiting interests whose only objective was the theft of easy tax-payer dollars.
Sci-fi futurism is not in its own right a problematic thing; far from it. How it was appropriated by money interests running government and councils and politics is the problem.
Paul Joseph Watson, as a new media video journalist/YT blogger, must take advantage of the opportunity that news coverage of the recent massive (Grenfell Tower) building fire provides to his platform - and so it's understandable that he would be reactive to the tragic incident.
But really, if you intend to be of use to people, then you can't always just be 'reactive,' and you must place an importance on leading, trying, implementing the entirely innovative, from scratch, being prompted by positive creation and creativity, and not just reactive knee-jerking.
We talk a lot about architecture and design here - and always have done. The reality is we've talked about these things long before any tragic disaster had to take place to force our focus.
PJW will get a large audience and I will get almost no audience at all.
But I will tell you what to do now for the problem that hasn't been foretold yet, and how to avoid future disasters that will happen but that no one or at least not many, foresee right now.
In the meantime, we can note Watson's excellent piece of journalism:
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