Helen Lewis
speaker
1,139 appearances
8 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Helen Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who hates Waymos, which I think are awesome, having been to San Francisco recently.
I felt like I'm sitting in the future.
Who hates them more than taxi drivers unions?
Who hates driverless trains more than train drivers unions?
And so, yeah, if they want to reclaim the idea that they're going to have futuristic aesthetics, that could be kind of awesome.
But they would have to also deal with the fact that many people do not look forward to the future with a desperation to get there.
But that's also about the left tastemaker's hatred of the middle brow.
I mean, just to take architecture, right?
You have to show that you are a refined person by liking brutalism.
And if you just preferred a nice Doric column and a nice whitewashed, whatever it might be, that's kind of basic.
That's what normal people who don't know anything about architecture like.
And the problem is that there are far more normal people than there are people who know a lot about architecture.
And I think Trump has got that, right?
Trump just has the tastes of a kind of normie person.
He has the taste of a normal person who's got a lot of money rather than elite taste.
I think there was a piece about this at the time of the 2016 election, right?
Everything he owns is covered in gold.
which is what you kind of think, if I suddenly had loads of money, why wouldn't I cover anything in gold?
Whereas the thing that if you're a high net worth person who flies on pirate jets and reads Condé Nast Traveler magazine, everything should be in muted earth tones.
So his exact lack of taste...
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