When I was at Illinois Tech in the second half of the 1990s I primarily listened to and took classes from the older professors who worked with Mies van der Rohe. They understood the concept of working together for the common good and they taught me to design with a sense of social responsibility, but most of the younger design professors I had there did not - they were obsessed with us making an individual statement and so they gave me crappy grades.
At the time I didn't understand that my school was being invaded by neoliberals, but I did understand how fortunate I was to be able to learn from those brilliant older architects. This was only one of many things that were lost to our profession with the passing of their generation, and we need to find our way back to it again.
Really interesting anecdote. One of the things we lost with neoliberalism and the killing of modernism through postmodernism is the collective spirit of architects like van der Rohe. There’s no doubt modernism had some ill effects on the built environment, but it was the last time designers thought at that scale of collectivism. Since then neoliberalism and postmodernism have been happy to go hand in hand propping up ideologies of individualism. This is why I think unionization is such an important project; I don’t think we can go back to old ways of operating, but we can go forward with new forms of solidarity.
Unfortunately, US-based Capitalists and Wall Street have had been spreading their influence throughout the remnants of the British Empire, using the US armed forces as their enforcers. They cannot continue, indefinitely.
The Earth cannot sustain unlimited human population growth. Climate catastrophe, exacerbated by capitalism, is real. Global nuclear weapons holocaust is a serious risk, by intent or by accident.
For more than a century, US public schools have exalted the benefits of Capitalism while avoiding serious discussions about the evils of the American Empire.
Agreed 100%, but their violent fascist police are out of control, so Substack is the only way I have left to protest, despite the fact that most of what I post on here is shadow-banned by the NSA or killed by the algorithm.
I'll be more than happy to return and help rebuild once you shut down all of their police and fire all their anti-social moron building officials, but I'm not going to be able to help anyone, including myself, if I allow those fascists to imprison me for my beliefs, which is exactly what they are trying to do. They lied shamelessly on my first 2 strikes, so we have no doubt that they will lie again for the third time, not to mention my husband will not allow me to cross the border right now since he has been the one who has had to get me out of jail again and again...
In the meantime, I'm here to educate, inspire and promote the revolution.
90 years ago the world saw the Fascists of Spain and Germany rising to power.
Hitler had the support of General Motors, Henry Ford, Thomas Watson of IBM, Charles Lindberg and other companies and plutocrats.
The USSR played a substantial role in opposing the German Fascists but terrified the American and British Fascists. That lesson is avoided in American History classes.
If only it were that simple. Believe me I am with you 100%.
After being targeted by their police and illegally arrested for the fifth time, we decided that it would be best for me to live the rest of my life outside the USA.
Most of you have no idea how evil, fascistic and authoritarian your government really is. What you are seeing and hearing right now is only the beginning…
When I was at Illinois Tech in the second half of the 1990s I primarily listened to and took classes from the older professors who worked with Mies van der Rohe. They understood the concept of working together for the common good and they taught me to design with a sense of social responsibility, but most of the younger design professors I had there did not - they were obsessed with us making an individual statement and so they gave me crappy grades.
At the time I didn't understand that my school was being invaded by neoliberals, but I did understand how fortunate I was to be able to learn from those brilliant older architects. This was only one of many things that were lost to our profession with the passing of their generation, and we need to find our way back to it again.
Really interesting anecdote. One of the things we lost with neoliberalism and the killing of modernism through postmodernism is the collective spirit of architects like van der Rohe. There’s no doubt modernism had some ill effects on the built environment, but it was the last time designers thought at that scale of collectivism. Since then neoliberalism and postmodernism have been happy to go hand in hand propping up ideologies of individualism. This is why I think unionization is such an important project; I don’t think we can go back to old ways of operating, but we can go forward with new forms of solidarity.
I still think like that, and I have been blacklisted and driven out of our society because of it.
You can’t do it alone.
Most of my relatives live outside of the USA.
Unfortunately, US-based Capitalists and Wall Street have had been spreading their influence throughout the remnants of the British Empire, using the US armed forces as their enforcers. They cannot continue, indefinitely.
The Earth cannot sustain unlimited human population growth. Climate catastrophe, exacerbated by capitalism, is real. Global nuclear weapons holocaust is a serious risk, by intent or by accident.
For more than a century, US public schools have exalted the benefits of Capitalism while avoiding serious discussions about the evils of the American Empire.
Agreed 100%, but their violent fascist police are out of control, so Substack is the only way I have left to protest, despite the fact that most of what I post on here is shadow-banned by the NSA or killed by the algorithm.
I'll be more than happy to return and help rebuild once you shut down all of their police and fire all their anti-social moron building officials, but I'm not going to be able to help anyone, including myself, if I allow those fascists to imprison me for my beliefs, which is exactly what they are trying to do. They lied shamelessly on my first 2 strikes, so we have no doubt that they will lie again for the third time, not to mention my husband will not allow me to cross the border right now since he has been the one who has had to get me out of jail again and again...
In the meantime, I'm here to educate, inspire and promote the revolution.
Keep doing whatever you can.
90 years ago the world saw the Fascists of Spain and Germany rising to power.
Hitler had the support of General Motors, Henry Ford, Thomas Watson of IBM, Charles Lindberg and other companies and plutocrats.
The USSR played a substantial role in opposing the German Fascists but terrified the American and British Fascists. That lesson is avoided in American History classes.
Join or form a better society.
If only it were that simple. Believe me I am with you 100%.
After being targeted by their police and illegally arrested for the fifth time, we decided that it would be best for me to live the rest of my life outside the USA.
Most of you have no idea how evil, fascistic and authoritarian your government really is. What you are seeing and hearing right now is only the beginning…