Dubai Is The New Babylon

[bogey_j]

^these pics here aren't photoshopped

dubai is a fukking weird, creepy city. makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up..

its a great example of hyperreality

 

[Joe Sixpack]

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

I think these motherfukkers might be overcompensating for something

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

hmmm....

 

[zerozero]

places like Dubai or Singapore kinda bother me

you have a basic cultural fabric in your area, right, and your replace it with an orgy of money, real estate development, and international metropolitanism

I'm not sure that's the best way to build a human region.. on the other hand it seems to work for them and their residents so

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Dubai = Atlantis

 

[Brian O'Conner]

Can only imagine the amount of debauchery that goes on there. Its already been exposed that they use slaves to build all those buildings.

 

[DANKTHRONE]

Do you mean Babylon as in the fascinating and incredible Mesopotamian society or Babylon as in the biblical Babylon that is hilariously false and written by sum salty jews?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Do you mean Babylon as in the fascinating and incredible Mesopotamian society or Babylon as in the biblical Babylon that is hilariously false and written by sum salty jews?

America is Babylon..

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

places like Dubai or Singapore kinda bother me

you have a basic cultural fabric in your area, right, and your replace it with an orgy of money, real estate development, and international metropolitanism

I'm not sure that's the best way to build a human region.. on the other hand it seems to work for them and their residents so

Im in Venice right now, its kind of the same here but with the old city structures retained for credibility

Huge contrast from Tuscany for example

The "culture" here is pure consumption, tourism and western worship... and the city is worse off for it. The resentment, despair and general air of malaise is palpable from a lot of the folks (esp the young ones) working here. Feels like a cruise ship

I hear there is basically a similar damn near caste system in Dubai, with the rich being what they are and then the support workers being damn near indentured servants, largely due to funky laws regarding debt. When you have a society in which culture and community are second to commerce and consumption, shyt works on the surface, but problems brew. Its very bizarre.

 

[50CentStan]

Dubai definitely has demonic vibes, ever since they started to make that tallest building there's been a fog type thing that comes over the city. The Koran warns against building tall structures as a sign of the end of times but these UAE dudes only religion is money.

 

[88m3]

It irks, me the stories I've been told...

Something is wrong in the Gulf.

 

[bogey_j]

It irks, me the stories I've been told...

Something is wrong in the Gulf.

share with the rest

 

[Mr. Somebody]

 

[69 others]

some of your pics are renderings but the bubble done popped dubai had its run