And yet, the Greeks were the first to practice Democracy, and their buildings were beautiful, and so we chose to use that style. We always celebrate a facet of the past when we celebrate the past. When Harvard builds a new building to match their oldest it's not to celebrate the 200 years when women weren't admitted.
And why are you cool celebrating a cherry-picked aspect of the past, particularly when that cherry-picked aspect clearly and definitively does not represent the aspect you wish to celebrate? Why not celebrate the totality of the present? Here's the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi woman: Find a bad angle of that building. I dare you. Here's the Odunpazeri Modern in Turkey by Kengo Kuma, a postwar Japanese architect. Here's the fucking Eiffel Tower. All three of these buildings are banned under the current executive order.
