I've recently started attending an Orthodox church. One of the things that struck me from my first visit is that there is *no* empty space on the walls. Every square inch is filled with beautifully colored icons. There's definitely a profound psychological effect.
We are looking for a house, and it is amazing how many are in black and white, maybe some gray. Everywhere. Cabinets, tiles, walls, floors, you name it.
"Color" me old, but I remember wood and natural tones of colors being dominant. Heck, even those avocado green and lemon yellow appliance of years gone past look outstanding to gray, gray, gray everywhere...with white thrown in for contrast.
Now cars are different. In the tropics or FL I like white because it's cooler. Otherwise, I want a car the color of dirt so I don't have to wash it often.
But I guess monochrome helps the gheys, because their colors attract attention, like Oregon Duck football uniforms designed by Nike.
Or maybe it's to get us used to gray concrete and glass 15-minute cities, indoctrination of sorts. Wanna bet "they" are genetically engineering gray crickets?
It's interesting to compare and contrast the architecture of various cultures or regions. In Scandanavia a lot houses were red, some yellow, or natural logs, but mostly red with white trim. Today they get painted white, black, or grays, but anything on acreage built last century that hasn't been updated is red, or maybe yellow. In parts of Greece everything is white stone, maybe off-white stone, sometimes contrasted with the blue of their flag. Portugese, Spanish cities have distinct color palettes, patterned tiles, natural woods. Limestone is prevalant in mas and vignobles in Provence, France. In S. and C. America you see vibrant colors, mahogonys etc. Cuba is crazy with its faded pastels. I used to play that Geoguessr game when it was free and without moving around, in the asbsence of nature, be able to pick the country by the architectural styles, colors, etc. But of all the new "updated styles" sweeping the globe, this monochrome is insidiously ubiquitous.
That "purple-haired, body-pierced" paragraph has to be one of your best, GC. I'm pasting that into my archives. Here in London, the rainbow cross-walks have faded and grunged from so many feet and tires, which I see as both a trend and a blessing. But it's not quite June so there may be some repainting this weekend. But it's the public space of the Tube stations and their captive audience that the pride propaganda is most visible. Poster after poster pushing acceptance and threatening criminal prosecution for non-compliance. It's relentless and heavy handed and ultimately has a reverse effect.
Add to that the migrant problem and the flood of fighting-age males from oppressive cultures which abuse women for their existence and you've got a tinder box that's set to blow any minute. And yet there seems to be a rising tide of awareness where folks increasingly sense they're being fucked with and don't want any of it. But I may be wrong.
And... I went into a sports store recently and all the men's shoes were black. Seriously. I was thinking, who made this decision? And most of the sportswear was black too.
Thanks. I have my website and am working on a book series that has begun exploring individuality. Of course, I occasionally get called "selfish," lol, but those are the types of things one must master, not identifying with the alphabet+ people
Part of it is recognizing that we are not wholly individuals. We are social and interconnected creatures but you wouldn't know it. The looks that I get for saying "Good Morning" to people that I pass on the streets. Please explore the concept of individuality, it will be rather interesting no doubt especially with all of the present evidence of extremes.
Another great article Good Citizen. Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead showed the power of conformity much like you describe but with regards to architecture. The character Ellsworth Toohey was the main driver behind the push to destroy Howard Roark as he refused to conform to Toohey's vision for what architecture should look like. Toohey wanted everything to look the same, boring and drab, in order for people to give up on the idea of individuality and submit to his vision of collectivism. He helped denigrate literature by popularizing the novel The Gallant Gallstone which was nothing but trash. People miss what Rand was writing about in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, both novels are not about economic philosophy but more about how society was descending into collective madness by crushing the spiritual nature of man(Yes, I know Rand's views on spirituality, think prophets are often not aware of the true meaning in their message). Only those who fought back, such as Roark, Hank Reardon, Dagny Taggart, and good old John Galt were able to rise above the bullshit and succeed on their terms, not society's terms. My favorite part of the Fountainhead is when Roark and Toohey finally meet, after Toohey had Roark's greatest achievement vilified in the press amongst other things and Toohey asks Roark what Roark thinks about Toohey. His response? "I don't think of you at all" and walks away. What does this teach us? Wasting our time worrying about assholes like Toohey is a fools errand, listen to what your spirit tells you and ignore all else, doing this will allow your individuality to shine through. The Tooheys of the world, all the woke babies who cry for mama when their feelings get hurt, are powerless if you simply refuse to bend your knee.
Now the glitter is gone from the beast and all that's left are glassy eye, digitally addicted, spineless and stupid Burger King munching zombies. The Yid's creation par excellance'. Goyim, featherless bipeds, ready for the kosher slaughterhouse. The WNBA players are all male to female, transsexual androgynes. Take a look at that one named Brittney Griner, the black WNBA star that was detained in Russia some time ago for "spying". (More theater from the Cryptocracy.) A blind person could see that is clearly a black man with long dreadlocks tied into a ponytail with two small bumps on his chest passing for tits. They can't make it more obvious. Thanks, GC.
About 20 years ago I started to notice that almost all clothing was black. I retaliated by wearing the most vibrant colors I can find. I haven't owned any black clothing for at least 30 years. I hate grocery shopping, so to alleviate the tedium, I play a game...I count people in the store not wearing black. Usually the number is zero. If there is one, it is almost inevitably a foreigner. People dressed in white? Never see it...but then, the last wedding I went to was 35 years ago.
I've also noticed the monochrome cars. I show folks pictures of cars from the fifties, and ask them: "what happened ?" If one has no color in their lives, their brains have been hijacked. The black clothing thing, is so subtle that the victims don't even know how their minds have been ******. The irony is that in older times only the super wealthy could wear bright colors. Tyrian purple became the color of royalty BECAUSE it was so expensive to produce. So now, when even the poorest of the poor can dress in exotic color...they chose black. Like I said...mind ******.
Some fascinating dot-connecting here. Makes so much sense.
Still, I suspect as more grok what Hollywood's been up to and the price of admission to fame, we'll see a pretty significant level rejection of whatever trends they and their 'celebrities' are pushing. Scales falling faster all the time.
The paragraph that starts "Fast forward more than half a century . . . " is absolutely the greatest run-on sentence in the long history of run-on sentences. That could have been a post unto itself. Bravo GC, bravo.
Considering a lot of stores have special hours for sensory sensitive people, I'd ponder that many are following suit and decorating to appease them. Now that every stinker has a voice the most obnoxious ones are changing the norms for everyone. Subdued masses require subdued hues. God forbid a hint of color could arouse an emotion and ruin their day, along with those around them.
"A third of the players in the WNBA are also lesbians, and lesbians aren’t fond of wood." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Only a third… hmm
The lickety-split league.
Beaverball
I've recently started attending an Orthodox church. One of the things that struck me from my first visit is that there is *no* empty space on the walls. Every square inch is filled with beautifully colored icons. There's definitely a profound psychological effect.
Once again CC posts a really interesting subject.
We are looking for a house, and it is amazing how many are in black and white, maybe some gray. Everywhere. Cabinets, tiles, walls, floors, you name it.
"Color" me old, but I remember wood and natural tones of colors being dominant. Heck, even those avocado green and lemon yellow appliance of years gone past look outstanding to gray, gray, gray everywhere...with white thrown in for contrast.
Now cars are different. In the tropics or FL I like white because it's cooler. Otherwise, I want a car the color of dirt so I don't have to wash it often.
But I guess monochrome helps the gheys, because their colors attract attention, like Oregon Duck football uniforms designed by Nike.
Or maybe it's to get us used to gray concrete and glass 15-minute cities, indoctrination of sorts. Wanna bet "they" are genetically engineering gray crickets?
It's interesting to compare and contrast the architecture of various cultures or regions. In Scandanavia a lot houses were red, some yellow, or natural logs, but mostly red with white trim. Today they get painted white, black, or grays, but anything on acreage built last century that hasn't been updated is red, or maybe yellow. In parts of Greece everything is white stone, maybe off-white stone, sometimes contrasted with the blue of their flag. Portugese, Spanish cities have distinct color palettes, patterned tiles, natural woods. Limestone is prevalant in mas and vignobles in Provence, France. In S. and C. America you see vibrant colors, mahogonys etc. Cuba is crazy with its faded pastels. I used to play that Geoguessr game when it was free and without moving around, in the asbsence of nature, be able to pick the country by the architectural styles, colors, etc. But of all the new "updated styles" sweeping the globe, this monochrome is insidiously ubiquitous.
Cuba has got it :).
As for the menacingly ubiquitous colournessness, it has made itself, or they have made it, most widespread in the automotive world as well.
That "purple-haired, body-pierced" paragraph has to be one of your best, GC. I'm pasting that into my archives. Here in London, the rainbow cross-walks have faded and grunged from so many feet and tires, which I see as both a trend and a blessing. But it's not quite June so there may be some repainting this weekend. But it's the public space of the Tube stations and their captive audience that the pride propaganda is most visible. Poster after poster pushing acceptance and threatening criminal prosecution for non-compliance. It's relentless and heavy handed and ultimately has a reverse effect.
Add to that the migrant problem and the flood of fighting-age males from oppressive cultures which abuse women for their existence and you've got a tinder box that's set to blow any minute. And yet there seems to be a rising tide of awareness where folks increasingly sense they're being fucked with and don't want any of it. But I may be wrong.
And... I went into a sports store recently and all the men's shoes were black. Seriously. I was thinking, who made this decision? And most of the sportswear was black too.
A great essay about color psychology, monochrome culture, celebrity/influencer culture, and conformity/individuality.
I think most who use their identity in some way today are really conformists even though they think they are not. It is just the current thing.
True individuality is learning your strengths, weaknesses, skillset, and having quiet self-confidence.
"I think most who use their identity in some way today are really conformists even though they think they are not. It is just the current thing."
Bingo MM. It's like thinking your musical taste makes you a rebel . . . and then going to a concert with 75,000 other "non-conformists".
Great comment and completely echoes my sentiment. What a great, cogent, and perceptive article, GC!
Thanks. I have my website and am working on a book series that has begun exploring individuality. Of course, I occasionally get called "selfish," lol, but those are the types of things one must master, not identifying with the alphabet+ people
Part of it is recognizing that we are not wholly individuals. We are social and interconnected creatures but you wouldn't know it. The looks that I get for saying "Good Morning" to people that I pass on the streets. Please explore the concept of individuality, it will be rather interesting no doubt especially with all of the present evidence of extremes.
I do talk about the importance of community. It goes along with it, i.e. social creatures.
Another great article Good Citizen. Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead showed the power of conformity much like you describe but with regards to architecture. The character Ellsworth Toohey was the main driver behind the push to destroy Howard Roark as he refused to conform to Toohey's vision for what architecture should look like. Toohey wanted everything to look the same, boring and drab, in order for people to give up on the idea of individuality and submit to his vision of collectivism. He helped denigrate literature by popularizing the novel The Gallant Gallstone which was nothing but trash. People miss what Rand was writing about in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, both novels are not about economic philosophy but more about how society was descending into collective madness by crushing the spiritual nature of man(Yes, I know Rand's views on spirituality, think prophets are often not aware of the true meaning in their message). Only those who fought back, such as Roark, Hank Reardon, Dagny Taggart, and good old John Galt were able to rise above the bullshit and succeed on their terms, not society's terms. My favorite part of the Fountainhead is when Roark and Toohey finally meet, after Toohey had Roark's greatest achievement vilified in the press amongst other things and Toohey asks Roark what Roark thinks about Toohey. His response? "I don't think of you at all" and walks away. What does this teach us? Wasting our time worrying about assholes like Toohey is a fools errand, listen to what your spirit tells you and ignore all else, doing this will allow your individuality to shine through. The Tooheys of the world, all the woke babies who cry for mama when their feelings get hurt, are powerless if you simply refuse to bend your knee.
Now the glitter is gone from the beast and all that's left are glassy eye, digitally addicted, spineless and stupid Burger King munching zombies. The Yid's creation par excellance'. Goyim, featherless bipeds, ready for the kosher slaughterhouse. The WNBA players are all male to female, transsexual androgynes. Take a look at that one named Brittney Griner, the black WNBA star that was detained in Russia some time ago for "spying". (More theater from the Cryptocracy.) A blind person could see that is clearly a black man with long dreadlocks tied into a ponytail with two small bumps on his chest passing for tits. They can't make it more obvious. Thanks, GC.
When I ~have~ to wear a tie, I STILL wear one from the Rush Limbaugh tie collection, a color bomb...
An all white house...YUCK. No wood...YUCK. All metal and glass...YUCK! Although the clip from "Back To The Future" was good to see.
Yes to all those, and another entire month of "pride"... YUCK.
About 20 years ago I started to notice that almost all clothing was black. I retaliated by wearing the most vibrant colors I can find. I haven't owned any black clothing for at least 30 years. I hate grocery shopping, so to alleviate the tedium, I play a game...I count people in the store not wearing black. Usually the number is zero. If there is one, it is almost inevitably a foreigner. People dressed in white? Never see it...but then, the last wedding I went to was 35 years ago.
I've also noticed the monochrome cars. I show folks pictures of cars from the fifties, and ask them: "what happened ?" If one has no color in their lives, their brains have been hijacked. The black clothing thing, is so subtle that the victims don't even know how their minds have been ******. The irony is that in older times only the super wealthy could wear bright colors. Tyrian purple became the color of royalty BECAUSE it was so expensive to produce. So now, when even the poorest of the poor can dress in exotic color...they chose black. Like I said...mind ******.
Some fascinating dot-connecting here. Makes so much sense.
Still, I suspect as more grok what Hollywood's been up to and the price of admission to fame, we'll see a pretty significant level rejection of whatever trends they and their 'celebrities' are pushing. Scales falling faster all the time.
Excellent as always. Thanks, CG.
those pictures of monochrome houses and apartments remind me of Patrick Bateman's apartment in the movie for American Psycho
Haha. His new business cards... "The color is something called bone."
"Emotionally incontinent" - ding ding ding --- contained in one of the most apropos paragraphs ever
Did I hear David Brubeck and then Miles Davis playing over that pleasantville clip??? Nice
The paragraph that starts "Fast forward more than half a century . . . " is absolutely the greatest run-on sentence in the long history of run-on sentences. That could have been a post unto itself. Bravo GC, bravo.
Truly is. (I came here to comment on that exact thing.)
Considering a lot of stores have special hours for sensory sensitive people, I'd ponder that many are following suit and decorating to appease them. Now that every stinker has a voice the most obnoxious ones are changing the norms for everyone. Subdued masses require subdued hues. God forbid a hint of color could arouse an emotion and ruin their day, along with those around them.