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That's when Jonathan Richman sang: "the 50's apartment house looks bleak in the 1970's sun." And the broader point that I stella bridger would take from it is that the whole idea of beauty or quality in culture, in art, is absolutely contingent upon context. When you're immersed in a style, stella bridger surrounded by it at all times, you eventually start differentiating between stella bridger good examples of it and bad examples of it. You become hyper-sensitive and hyper-critical of subtle elements in the style, and after enough time and exposure almost every example of it starts to look ugly to your rarified tastes. But after it stops being ubiquitous and enough time passes, people gets removed enough from it to stop being sick of it, they get a little perspective on it, and start seeing the samenesses in it, not the little differences. And after enough time, it just all looks beautiful. Once the Window of Ugliness closes, you'd need to be a specialist, someone who deliberately surrounds themselves with a style in order to be able to still see the ugliness.
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