Further Initiative on Eastern Europe Architecture
Dear Gen. Josef Stalin:Since the decay of communism on continent Europe, boundaries have been redrawn to lead to the creation of independent states (creating further factions from within); massive decollectivisation (agricultural droughts and free market disparity); and privatisation has pulled back the curtain (and let the mafiosi do the laundry); and on some days, the sun shines on Eastern Europe (due to global warming, not entirely your fault but your emissions during the whole industrialization complex don't go unscathed). To an extent, the media roam freely (at their own glory with constant risk of cold-blooded homicide); and finally, with a tip to democracy's cap, elections are held. In many parts of your former hinterlands, you get the sense that people, even though in many parts there in inadequate health or nutrition, move without fear (they don't give 2 goddamn F"£$ about anything.)
And yet in all this transformation, your relics of insurmountable proportions remain inpenetrable. Throughout the Eastern European landscape, the mortar plunked down that piles up to the heavens (censored concept, of course,) with a dimensional space that takes up blocks and streets, go unseen-- even with the squinted eye. These concrete, prefabricated residences erected by utilitarian equations under the auspice of "socialist realism", no longer apply to the standard of living today. Thus, these spaces are suitable grounds for urban/public space or major reconstruction. Further thus, this is a writ that mandates the destruction of these behomeths which will be elaborated below.
Apart from the aforementioned omnificent, architectural elephants that has defined the landscape more than its people for more than half a millenium; there also lies a less than corporeal element plaguing the peoples of Eastern Europe. From the panelaky throughout the Balkans, a malaise clinically known as Post-Communist Traumatic Stress Disorder (PCTSD) has passed through every consecutive generation as consistent as a polio immunization. (This cure was founded just after you croaked.).
Apart from the aforementioned omnificent, architectural elephants that has defined the landscape more than its people for more than half a millenium; there also lies a less than corporeal element plaguing the peoples of Eastern Europe. From the panelaky throughout the Balkans, a malaise clinically known as Post-Communist Traumatic Stress Disorder (PCTSD) has passed through every consecutive generation as consistent as a polio immunization. (This cure was founded just after you croaked.).
As dependent humans can't always determine their environments, they become subject to/product of them. The physiological result of being masked by a climate that is concurrent with extreme cold and a shroud of eternal gray urban structures, forms a vapid reality without any color. What this has caused on psychological and subliminal levels is numerous and relatively untreated and unknown...
Over the years, there have been efforts upon art councils and progressive municipalities to select talented artists to paint these slabs with giant strokes. But even with all the men in Ukraine (yep, they got theirs too in '91), working under the directed talent, there are simply not enough polka dots and euphoric murals of market people and mammals nor buckets of pink paint #8 in supply. Irony, in other words has dried up. Therefore, the induction of a giant, golden wrecking ball (that is being manufactured in China--cost effectivity, and then, assembled in Poland) plus various terrorist bombing devices designed in Iraq (IED's) provided ATF inspection, will be applied to once and for all, eradicate these eye sores from the European backside and that of the human eye, forever.
Rose petals wilt from under you...
Over the years, there have been efforts upon art councils and progressive municipalities to select talented artists to paint these slabs with giant strokes. But even with all the men in Ukraine (yep, they got theirs too in '91), working under the directed talent, there are simply not enough polka dots and euphoric murals of market people and mammals nor buckets of pink paint #8 in supply. Irony, in other words has dried up. Therefore, the induction of a giant, golden wrecking ball (that is being manufactured in China--cost effectivity, and then, assembled in Poland) plus various terrorist bombing devices designed in Iraq (IED's) provided ATF inspection, will be applied to once and for all, eradicate these eye sores from the European backside and that of the human eye, forever.
Rose petals wilt from under you
kc
posted by kc at 17:53
