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A note about the equivocality of the term «brutalism: Let’s state how lamentable it is that Le Corbusier’s Chapelle de Notre Dame de Ronchamp or Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center may be properly categorized esthetically as «Architectural Brutalism.»

Language may be, indeed, brutally equivocal. For instance, in Darwinist Philosophy, when applied loosely to justify the necessity of brutality for the sake of species survival or support of brutal ideological oppression by the brutally dominant group, be it for reasons religious, political, racial, sexist, social, or other form of unjust supremacy.

USA Electoral Colleges, State’s gubernatorial authority to impose ideological censorship of books, legislative resistance to approve a humane minimal wage; sadistic behavior, such as demagogic discourse among politicians for the sake of safeguarding the First Constitutional Amendment, as if unquestioned authority, dominance, or influence, as if lying and defaming could constitute a rightful exercise of freedom under the guise of violent, abusive debating parlance. Interestingly, many of the most violent politicians in the Federal Legislature were trained militarily. Hum!

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