Modern decor may be straining people's brains

Post by throw0101a » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

jmbwell wrote: post #79

pooploop64 wrote: post #70

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Lawns are for much more than just flexing. It's an outdoor part of your property which is flat and open enough to use for various activities and purposes. I don't know where people get such a cynical idea that this is THE reason anyone has lawns.

Yeah this is all very regional too. Row houses in London and brownstones in New York or whatever won’t have front lawns as a function of density, but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own food, which is all tied up in different experiences of war, while certainly countryside estates are for form more than function, while post war housing in the midwestern US was in p…

> but may have back yards or gardens, which may or may not be a function of producing your own food, which is all tied up in different experiences of war

The neighbourhood of "Cabbagetown" in Toronto is so-named because yards were not used for 'ornamental' plants:

> Cabbagetown's name derives from the Irish immigrants who moved to the neighbourhood beginning in the late 1840s, said to have been so poor that they grew cabbage in their front yards.[2] Canadian writer Hugh Garner's novel, Cabbagetown, depicted life in the neighbourhood during the Great Depression.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabbagetown,_Toronto

Post by ericmay » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

mghackerlady wrote: post #288

watwut wrote: post #135

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The masses wear colorful t-shirts with selections of cool pictures and variety of decorated cloth. If anything, suit is boring minimalist choice, every man looks exactly like the man next to him. The leftist ideology in women leads to colorful hair styles, even more variety of clothing cause they integrate in unusual styles.

The "leftist ideology" in women leads to colorful hair because not only is it cool looking, but it keeps away the kind of men who are repulsed by things like womens rights

That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. In communist and other leftist authoritarian ideologies and there are of course different degrees and expressions of this, but you typically have to engage in mass conformity, whereas democracies with free markets and free expression of ideas and allow for folks to style themselves outside of the norm.

It's one of those things that unfortunately popular culture has become confused about. Free markets, property rights, and free expression (as examples), which are not leftist, are the cultural mechanism which allows and encourages individuality. In societies where those things are not valued, free expression for example in communist societies, women are more oppressed and that's arguably by definition. Even at the economic level, capitalist economies and free market economies permit worker-owned collectives, whereas communism destroys and disallows private ownership of the means of production (and typically property rights in general). Free markets are more permissive and more, well, free. Leftist economic systems aren't because they are unnatural and require forced cooperation.

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains

Re: Modern decor may be straining people's brains