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America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues (www.bloomberg.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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archive link: https://archive.ph/ONKkm

contextualizes the topic beautifully. you might learn a lot about how american racism relates to capital and art from this article

highlight: most of these guys are into classical art fascism but one of them, a bitcoin guy looking to build a 450 foot tall statue of prometheus, appears to be specifically into italian fascism. his favorite aesthetic is futurism and he hired a futurist sculptor with this "manifesto" on his website:

a long sequence of bullet points about vigor in art and promoting harmony

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago

Doesn't matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.

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