The dangerous allure of perfection.
Dictatorships and the aesthetic of "kitsch" share a common goal: the enforcement of sterile, absolute control. But this engineered perfection is always fragile.

True creative relief and genuine progress require us to acknowledge when the bedrock of rigid systems begins to crack. Is true art ever really finished?
https://thelongstand.substack.com/p/the-architecture-of-the-badlands

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