Is the World Getting Uglier?
A few blocks from where I live, a quaint, mid-size home was recently razed and replaced by a house that seems to have eaten its own property. It stretches from one edge of the lot to the other, with barely enough room around it to suggest that land ever existed there before.
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A few blocks from where I live, a quaint, mid-size home was recently razed and replaced by a house that seems to have eaten its own property. It stretches from one edge of the lot to the other, with barely enough room around it to suggest that land ever existed there before. It is large in the way so many new houses are large now: swollen, as though every available inch has been converted into interior space.I have begun noticing the same impulse everywhere: things are getting bigger, louder and more visually insistent, as though occupying more space has itself become a form of value.Cars have become taller, wider, and more aggressive, with grilles that look more weaponized than designed. The Tesla Cybertruck seems to have taken that impulse to the extreme: it is a vehicle so visually belligerent it appears constructed to win an argument no one knew they were having.
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- What's the story?
- A few blocks from where I live, a quaint, mid-size home was recently razed and replaced by a house that seems to have eaten its own property. It stretches from one edge of the lot to the other, with barely enough room around it to suggest that land ever existed there before.
- How widely is it covered?
- 1 outlet, average source rating 7.0/10.
- When was it last updated?
- just now ago.
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Is the World Getting Uglier?
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