There is an explanation for why this happened, and while I don’t have it fully, I think I’m moving in the right direction. In short: there is a certain type of individual who has been mass-incubated or imported over the past 20 years, whose only joy is taking it from others in small but significant ways. They are the reason that color has drained from the world, from cars to houses to music, art, et cetera. They’re the arched eyebrows scoffers, the eye rollers, the anti-jocks, the joyless theater kids, chip-on-shoulder never was’s, the soulless, and usually, the childless, although that matters less than what kind of childhood they had. They see no value in a colossal, wooden, multi-level playground because they were either never taken to one, or never wanted to go. They see no value in even mundane municipal charm, and so they divest it of character, leaving only a brutal utilitarianism. These people gravitate to menial government employment like moths to a match, and once ensconced, they unleash their poison. Once you begin to notice it, you see it everywhere. It’s most glaringly evident in our public lighting. LED Street lamps have made city nightlife grotesque. There’s no other way to say it. And this somewhat ironic, because LED lighting has probably more potential for color variation than any other form of light. But every. single. streetlamp glows like a welding arc. Why? What aesthetic vampire is actively choosing the brightest, coldest possible setting for these godforsaken lamps? Even the local university has marred its campus with brutal blue-white tones. With the push of a button, this could be fixed, the color tone warmed, the brightest lowered, and campus would look lovely at night. We live in an ugly age where beauty gets eyerolled, where everything by default is brought down to the same spiritual and aesthetic sewer, and made ugly almost by intention.
Never forget what they took from you pic.twitter.com/E1ifC5keCb
— Nostalgia Daily (@nostalgia_) May 10, 2026
