Why did the old world look neater and healthier? In videos of the 20th century, everyone appears to be fit, and good looking. The architecture is quite beautiful. You can contrast it with photos of modern cities, often filled with garbage, fentanyl zombies, homeless tents, grafitti, brutalist architecture, touts and scammers on the streets, dense crowds, loud subways, etc.Why did the old world have a beautiful aesthetic?
>>18242517Maybe because fewer photos were taken, and developing photos from film required a visit to the photographer and took several days?Smartphone kids won't understand this.
>>18242525This. You took a photograph of your family having a lovely picnic at a beautiful outdoor vista or of the dramatic, marvelous buildings because you had 12 photos to take of the whole vacation/event maximum You didn't take a photo of a rat dragging a pizza down a subway or a crackhead staggered down a graffiti filled back alley because you probably didn't walk around with a camera every day.
>>18242531*because it would be a waste of a photo and you probably didn't walk around with a camera
>>1824251790% of the country was White.
>>18242517>Why did the old world look neater and healthier?BETTER MORALS.>Why did the old world have a beautiful aesthetic?BETTER MORALS.MORALITY IS THE EFFECTIVE CAUSE; FROM MORALS, EVERYTHING.
>>18242546WHOLESOMENESS USED TO BE THE NORM; MORBIDNESS, ABERRANT; NOW, THE NORM IS MORBID, AND, ALL THINGS WHOLESOME, EXCEPTIONAL.
>>18242517Because you are looking at footage taken in upper-middle class areas for a tourism ad or something like that. There are plenty of photos of people living in squalor from way back too.The main difference is, at that time, the poor couldn't afford cameras, and among the rich, the prevailing view was that we should feel sorry or help poor people, so photos of the poor reflected that. So, you won't find photos of drunks sleeping in their own vomit etc. because people who could afford cameras didn't go around slums to find people like that to prove that actually these people are subhuman and deserve to be where they are.
>>18242548This is true if you are talking about the media. But real life was just as often shit.
>>18242551I AM REFERRING TO REAL LIFE IN GENERAL.NOONE IS DENYING THAT THERE WERE DRUGADDICTS, MURDERERS, RAPISTS, THIEVES, HOMELESS PEOPLE, RUDE PEOPLE, AND INSTANCES OF BAD TASTE, IN YESTERYEAR; THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THOSE WERE ABERRATIONS.
>>18242517>Why did the old world look neater and healthier?It wasn't as easy to take a photo: the disposable camera wouldn't be wildly commercially available until the 1980's, photography and filming was a conspicuous process since recording equipment only existed as expensive and heavy pieces of equipment. There wasn't any convenient or cheap way to "capture a moment", so everything recorded is going to reflect that deliberation.Besides technical limitations: There was also significantly less consumer waste. People largely ate at home and if they didn't they still sat down and ate a meal at a restaurant, a diner, or could get something at a public mess hall, so there wasn't a lot of opportunities for people to make mountains of waste via food wrappers, packaging, etc.. Granted, this would eventually change, dramatically, after the 50's and into the 60's and 70's when consumerism really started to explode all over America. Baby Boomers were notorious litterers, and environmental regulations were far more lax - to such an extent that Lake Eerie famously caught on fire in 1962 and burned for 30 minutes. Pic related is a small capture of some of the trash left behind after the Woodstock music festival.
>>18242556More than just less consumer waste (though that played a part) I think it is that the consumer waste of people became a lot more easy to see, the transition to plastic and disposable wrapping made it so garbage was much more conspicuous than it used to be. Before that the waste you would see would blend in more, it was smaller, made out of glass, cardboard, or tin. Even in your picture watch how the beverage cans and bottles become almost invisible compared to all the plastic.
>>18242517Everything was better back then because there were no nonwhite people to litter everywhere and ruin everything.
>>18242517>Why did the old world look neater and healthier?whiteness is godliness and you can't expect a place to be heavenly if it isn't made and ruled by the white
>>18242611>ParisAnd where are negroes and arabs?
>>18242607>More than just less consumer waste (though that played a part) I think it is that the consumer waste of people became a lot more easy to see, the transition to plastic and disposable wrapping made it so garbage was much more conspicuous than it used to be. Before that the waste you would see would blend in more, it was smaller, made out of glass, cardboard, or tin.Anon you're quoting: that's a good comment and a deliberate decision made on part of the company in terms of package design. As you mentioned before litter used to be fairly innocuous, you can actually still see this to some extent in 3rd world countries, but more modern packaging is consciously designed to take into account littering. This didn't use to be the case, but sometime after the 50's companies got it in their heads that if they put their brand on the garbage it would mean every time somebody littered they were making a tiny little billboard, for free.
>>18242615>And where are negroes and arabs?Back then they were still in hell where they belong
>>18242555>THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THOSE WERE ABERRATIONSPoverty and squalor was twice as prevalent in the 50s US as it is today. Look up poverty rate statistics. Life expectancy was much shorter too. Look up life expectancy statistics. You're yearning for a golden age that only exists in your mind.
>>18242634THE NATURE OF MORALS IS NOT CONTINGENT TO FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
>>18242517lol this is from a film promoting immigration
They had to walk everywhere
>>18242517After years of reflection and contemplation on this very topic, I've concluded that the blame lies with the Kali Yuga. Metaphysical currents above and beyond our control find expression in these little ways that seem negligible at the time but gradually add up until you get to our present hellworld.
>>18242544This, and fewer microplastics and corn syrup.
>>18242611What about slav shitholes?Let me guess, they aren't white?
>>18242517Paco and Ranjesh hadn't had the red carpet rolled out for them yet.
