I must say that I find myself intrigued by this "Steampunk" Aesthetic.

[hunter]

16. It's all aesthetics, even anti-aesthetics.

I'm a person less concerned about aesthetics than most anyone on the planet.

I drive around in an old car that hasn't been washed in decades.

That's my personal "I don't give a fuck about cars" aesthetic.

Modernism, functionalism, etc., those are other aesthetics.

Steam punks know they are creating a world that never was. The common world we all share in this moment is a similar fiction. Is this a democracy? Are we free? Hell no. We suffer under a corrupt government, in a corrupt dysfunctional society.

I have a lot more respect for those who choose the fantasy they want to live under than those who pretend the ugly common aesthetic imposed upon us is any kind of reality.

Every fucking dollar in your wallet, in your bank, in your portfolio is a representation of the cruelest aesthetic around, a "fantasy" that kills and tortures real people.

You can't begin to live until you step outside of this "real world" aesthetic that's been forcibly imposed upon us.

You don't like aesthetics that are materialistic? Create one for yourself that's not.

Look around. What humans do, what humans make, it's all art. Even science is a human art. Make some art.