Who on earth chose to build a church behind this beautiful Samsung™ 4K screen?
A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life
Submitted 5 months ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know if after building a 4K screen, a church like that could ever be built.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 months ago
umm, you need something to mount the giant screen, don’t you? So might as well have some class while you’re at it.
kandoh@reddthat.com 5 months ago
The church is under construction. What you see behind the ad is a printed photo of what the church will look like, it is not actual architecture.
This is like a poster on the wood walls they place around construction sites, it’s fine.
LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
id still rather have no ad tho
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
True, but this is likely to be helping fund the reconstruction/repair work. So it’s kinda benefits everyone if it’s saving money from the public purse.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We’re aware of that, it’s the popup advert that we can’t click to close that’s depressing :-/
SharkAttak@kbin.social 5 months ago
*restoration
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Oh wow, that’s a really weird thing to put on a church. I mean, I like ladies, but I’d never put giant pictures of them up on a building as a permanent installment. To reach their own, I guess.
trebor8201@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bosht@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How utterly revolting. I get peoples comments about religion, but that doesn’t somehow remove the fact that this is a beautiful piece of architecture being marred by a disgusting shitty advert.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Agreed. What’s even the point of arguing in favor of the cultural legacy of a given religion in shaping a city’s architectural history if they pull shit like this?
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tax the churches now!
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It does convey the (accurate) message that money is more important to the church than its message or its congregation.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
This is definitely scaffolding erected to facilitate repairs. Of all use cases for advertising, I cannot possibly complain about this one as it seems to be funding the repairs and the ugly scaffolding is being camouflaged by the dressing that mimics the underlying surface. Yeah, its always gonna suck to a certain degree to see ads plastered on a landmark like this, but if it’s only temporary during repairs and helps maintain the building then I’m all for it.
IAmLamp@fedia.io 5 months ago
Oh great……. CONTEXT. NOW what am I supposed to do with all of this boiling rage?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Ask why a historical monument has to rely on advertising dollars to be repaired. Why the kinds of organisations that would put a garish ad billboard over the top are the ones with all the power in our society.
Just because the billboard is funding repairs doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s emblematic of how much is being hoarded by capitalists.
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Saw something similar when I was in Paris at the Louvre last fall. I couldn’t believe my eyes at first. As if the tourist masses (myself not excluded, sadly) weren’t bad enough.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I didnt even notice that they even completely covered the wall in a fake facade at first. Like “oh we wanna protect the look of this beautiful monument” but also “here look at this advertisement!”
Norgur@fedia.io 5 months ago
This does more look like some sort of scaffolding for repair work
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Now im wondering if whats depicted on it, is even actually there behind it.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Notice how not a single person down below gives one single flying fuck about the ad. Next they’ll try to smack you in the face with an add on a fly swater just to get your attention. And big boobs on the fly swater probably.
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
🌎🧑🚀Is nothing sacred?🔫🧑🚀Never was.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not a fan of evil capitalists, but I think I’d take even them over organised religion, which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.
masquenox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.
And capitalism isn’t this because… ?
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Religion indoctrinates you into replacing reason with faith in your earliest formative years, when you don’t have the tools to realize what they’re doing to you, which I think accounts for the cult of control thing.
Not sure I’d take them over religion though, given that capitalism is on the tracks to destroy our actual ecosystem. I’m going to be a centrist on this issue and claim that both suck. Very brave, I know.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hmm let’s go see some interesting architecture… oh shoot I forgot i need to buy stuff I don’t need. Thanks samsung.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
God those are some ugly fucking glasses.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 months ago
When I’d only seen the thumbnail and not the whole pic, I thought the title was talking about stupid glasses.
Eyeuhnluuung@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pretty cool glasses though
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
My grandma would love it
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ladies take note - these glasses look cool on a supermodel
There is a 99% chance they will make you look like a blind pensioner
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Do you think people raging over pictures of it on socmed are part of the appeal to marketers?
rapechildren@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 5 months ago
That’s in Italy (Milan) and it is due to lack of public funds to pay for monument restoration.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 months ago
It still sucks, but I guess it’s better than letting monuments crumble.
Norgur@fedia.io 5 months ago
If only the owner of those churches was one of the wealthiest organizations on the planet... Oh, wait
index@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This monument was paid by indulgences. ADs on top of it are free money for the church they can spend brainwashing people into their cult.
Mac@mander.xyz 5 months ago
if i had to choose I would let it crumble.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I’m not sure it is better
index@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Religious monuments in italy are owned by the catholic church. If they are in need of money perhaps the pope could sell same of their golden gauntlets or their apartments in london
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Ambrosiano
The italian goverment doesn’t lack money either, politicians just raised their salary.
The really essence of this building is to be an AD for the church, which by the time it was build was a state with an army.
Delta_V@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, the whole thing is a monument to evil men exploiting the locals.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Seems more like a bad photoshop to me.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
It looks weird because it’s a screen sponsored by Samsung, you can also see it on Apple Maps:
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 5 months ago
That’s probably because the ad isn’t actually on the facade of the building. It’s on the scaffolding put up against the facade while restorations take place. They put an image of the building itself on the scaffolding canvas, and then put a screen in front of that.