When brightly lit cities are praised, it reveals the maliciousness and profanity of the speaker.
The city washes out the stars. Maybe the city looks good in some sense, but does it look better than the heavens? Laughable. Ludicrous. No, the point of brightly-lit cities is astral vandalism. It's a deliberate crime. Every time someone "complains" about light pollution, it's a backhand victory dance. Problem: the stars still shine. You just can't see them. The only person defeated is the earthling.
America really is one giant coast-to-coast slum. Every "beautiful" building is also ugly, it's merely less ugly than the hideousness that surrounds it. I look around, I see bare concrete (cracked, even though brand new) and cheap siding except where the beams are exposed; they look around, "It's a beautiful building." Bro, it's prison architecture. Concentration camp chic. And this really is one of the least disfigured buildings. This visual fusillade is intentional. They could stop, they just don't want to; on the contrary.
Brightly lit cities are praised at night because the darkness successfully hides the death-fungus-coloured architecture.
Though you have to hand it to piss-yellow bricks. Peak ugliness without quite looking like it was deliberately defaced. Bricks are great: because they're small they look overly busy, yet they look monotonous at the same time. A true repulsiveness innovation. Or, you can dye the bricks random colours, and they always choose to make it look filthy. Shades of grime.
You know you can dye mortar too? It doesn't all have to be that aggressively boring, depressing grey. It is, though. It is.
Like all religious fanatics, Americans aren't as stupid as they pretend to be. Even the feebleminded can match the results to their intention, as a result of selection: if it doesn't work, they try something else until they stumble across the desired result.
The visual repellency is the result of deliberation and conscious choice. If you try to make anything less unsightly, they will resist with great adroitness. The environment they build reflects their internal deformity.
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