124: What the Bleep Happened to Architecture?—Dr. E. Michael Jones
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Tweet to Patrick HERE Follow Patrick on Facebook HERE Subscribe to the Podcast and the YouTube Channel Subscribe to the YouTube Channel: While you are here, please leave an honest review. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! ******************************************************** Socrates said that the order of the city was the order of the soul writ large. That observation is all the more true today—and not a compliment to the modern soul or the modern city. Most people simply don't advert to the quiet influence the surrounding architecture has on their psyche: the shape and scale of buildings, the order and proportion (or lack thereof). The father of modern Bauhaus architecture is the German Walter Gropius, a promiscuous cad who married a promiscuous shrew named Anna Mahler, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine says that Gropius painted into his architectural vision a radically new kind of building and with it, a revolution in urban planning. In this episode you will learn * The subtle (?) ways in which the architecture that surrounds us tells us who we are and what our life's priorities ought to be * How Gropius's rationalization of his own degeneracy got transmuted into buildings built purely for function, and ugly as sin besides * Why rebellion against Logos leads to disorder and chaos in the external design of things * What public housing Projects in Chicago, suburban Moscow, and industrial Poland have in common * Why classical architecture as nurtured by Catholic principles and sound philosophy can lead the way to beautify both home and church design Resources mentioned in this episode * Living Machines: Architecture and the Rationalization of Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones * Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones * Dionysos Rising: The Birth of Cultural Revolution Out of the Spirit of Music by E. Michael Jones * The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing by E. Michael Jones * Home Alone: A Neighbor's Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg by E. Michael Jones * From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe