Sometimes, you have to let other people say it. I haven’t read a lot of Germaine Greer, none of her books in fact.
However, this comment of her’s on Dubai, the marvel or hovel, depending on how you look at it, where I reside right now deserves to be shared. Not only because it’s written in the razor-sharp, extremely opinionated style of Greer. But, because it’s true. There are positives to Dubai, which Greer ignores. The fact is, if you have one ounce of heritage, cultural or non-material aesthetic in your blood, Dubai is not for you. Read:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/09/dubai-architecture-greer
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