Comments on: This inverts the historical pattern and creates local variety and global conformity https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/this-inverts-the-historical-pattern-and-creates-local-variety-and-global-conformity/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/this-inverts-the-historical-pattern-and-creates-local-variety-and-global-conformity/comment-page-1/#comment-3758671 T. Beholder Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:03:00 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53253#comment-3758671 There are whose study is of smells,
And to attentive schools rehearse
How something mixed with something else
Makes something worse.

…and speaking of smells: https://stonetoss.com/comic/the-swirl/

Speaking of smells and architecture, in 1960s Russian language was enriched by portmanteau of “Khruschev” and “slum”, thanks to yet another bright idea The Boar (qv Gaping Heights) picked at US South. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=???????&ia=web

It refers to low-rise apartment buildings that have combined toilet and bath, usually prefabricated, usually poor at dealing with weather North of Ukraine.

Maxwell Tabarrok:

Today, people have diverse tastes sourced from global media and more diverse buildings styles and materials available due to globalization. This inverts the historical pattern and creates local variety and global conformity.

But this raises questions. Starting with: how diverse those «tastes sourced from global media» are, again?

He also somehow missed conformity/conformity stage between conformity/variety and variety/conformity: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like-a-state/

]]> By: TWS https://www.isegoria.net/2025/07/this-inverts-the-historical-pattern-and-creates-local-variety-and-global-conformity/comment-page-1/#comment-3758670 TWS Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:40:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=53253#comment-3758670 It’s a crime and a shame that we’ve lost the local dimension to communities. I pray this isn’t permanent, who wants to live in a brutalist world? Hopefully, we’ll see a return to local styling.

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