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combination of two things here, refinement culture and costly signalling (which share a common root)

black is cool, simple, elegant, the ultimate reduction of color, ie its absence; light degreebled

quite admittedly, it can get bleak living grayscale, sans a vibrant inner life
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RT @USA_Comrade
Looks like shit. Only a rich asshole disconnected from reality would want a black doom pit in their backyard
twitter.com/USA_Comrade/status

w/o a strong sense of self & purpose, an internal source of motivation & drive, one naturally looks to their environment for such, which is a big part of why people tend to decorate their homes with cozy knickknacks which recharge their happiness

this is, however, inelegant

the desire for elegance is, in many ways, a death drive, an instrument of the antispiral

life is vibrant, chaotic, bright and messy

only in sterile artificiality do we find clean orderly lines

so in willingly choosing such, you signal your Surplus of elan vital

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