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June 29, 2023

Ancient aliens: America's divine intervention genesis myth about civilization and life itself

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Having looked at the distinctly American genesis myth of our prehistory -- inhabiting the same land as dinosaurs and missing links, threaten...
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June 19, 2023

Dinosaurs, cavemen, and volcanic disaster: America's prehistoric genesis myth

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The root problem in American ethnogenesis is that we just got here, and where we came from was host to rival empires with their own already ...
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June 17, 2023

The Midcentury tiki / caveman origins of the iconic low "mansard" roof for McDonald's, Pizza Hut, etc.

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The recent posts about Googie and tiki styles co-existing, as well as the primitive style of the Polynesian Village Resort at the founding o...
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June 7, 2023

Disney World's Brutalist and primitive futurist origins

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Although discussion of Brutalist architecture in America, where it was born, focuses only on its more elevated settings -- civic buildings, ...
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June 5, 2023

Googie architecture: primitive futurism, with upswept roofs from Frank Lloyd Wright

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No exploration of American culture's distinctive "primitive futurism" would be complete without a look at Googie architecture...
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May 30, 2023

Exposed concrete: the American architectural style's defining material, from Frank Lloyd Wright through Brutalism and beyond

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I had no idea how backwards the history of architecture & design from the 20th C. and after has been, until I began researching American...
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