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If you are interested to go a bit beyond the level of twitter and go into the history of the discourse you might want to read this rather infamous text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime Let me know what kind of impression you get of that Loos fella' will ya?

edit: because it's less obvious that the text is available in full through the wikipage (it seems to be in the footnotes only) than I remembered for your convenience (: https://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf

It’s a lovely essay, thank you for commenting. Personally I found the moralizing first section grotesque, but the latter pragmatical half very intuitive and relatable. Curious what filters through culture.