{"id":244654,"date":"2021-10-28T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244654"},"modified":"2021-10-30T05:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T05:26:03","slug":"the-war-on-beauty-does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244654","title":{"rendered":"The War On Beauty: Does it matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish Savant \u2013 Oct 25, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Presumably nobody would deny that there actually is<\/em> a War On Beauty. It\u2019s totally in your face. It\u2019s a form of Satanic Inversion as everything hitherto perceived as good and beautiful gets inverted, turned on its head, replaced by the unsightly and repugnant. Look at this Calvin Klein ad. Gone are the svelte Nordic goddesses of yore, to be replaced by this gorgon. Incidentally, what the hell is this new phenomenon whereby \u2018truth\u2019 is preceded by a personal pronoun? Truth is truth. Making it \u2018my\u2019 or \u2018her\u2019 truth doesn\u2019t change anything. Of course it\u2019s a great way of circumventing inconvenient facts. Does finishing bottom of your class mean you\u2019re neither clever nor hard-working? Or does your<\/em> truth as a downtrodden black woman mean it\u2019s attributable it to discrimination? You can see how handy that can be.<\/p>\n

The War On Beauty knows no bounds. Literature, art, music and architecture have been transformed into hideous simulacrums of what they purport to represent. The fatuousness of modern \u2018art\u2019 suggests an agenda far beyond the world of the senses. For instance the Aalborg Museum Of Modern Art boasts of a masterpiece which consists of just the picture frame. There\u2019s no picture. And they paid the artist \u20ac85,000 for his efforts. It\u2019s little wonder that Brutalist architecture came into its own under Stalin enforcing as it does ugly unimaginative conformity.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Just look at this residence in Cork selling for nearly \u20ac3 million. Undoubtedly designed by a high-profile architect the net result looks like a conglomeration of farm outbuildings or a warehouse.<\/p>\n

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Compare this to the exquisite ornate buildings of earlier times found throughout Europe, all designed and built without the benefit of modern technology. And don\u2019t start me on modern manifestations of music, sculpture and literature. They pollute and debase the symmetry, harmony and balance that infuse true beauty.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s behind this war? It\u2019s logical to see it as a component, a vital component, of the overall war on European culture and traditions, of the war on Whiteness. For instance it strongly supports the project to blend out Whiteness by enhancing the mating material status of non-Whites by undermining traditional criteria for beauty. At a more profound level it, by extension, strikes at the very soul of European-derived people by severing us from our myths, culture, history and traditions, everything that makes us what we are. Thus we become untethered, atomised, rootless\u2026..disoriented, pliable, lacking in confidence and self-belief. Revolutionaries from Cromwell to Napoleon to Lenin understood this. Our enemies today understand it. But we do not. And this lack of understanding is quite literally destroying us. Is this why the Vatican II-subverted Catholic Church has destroyed its traditional ornate interiors which induced a powerful aesthetic experience with replacements possessing the spirituality of an airport terminal? (\u201cThe past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.\u201d \u2013 George Orwell.)<\/p>\n

It could be destroying us at an even more profound level because some of our greatest philosophers equate beauty with goodness. The late Roger Scruton <\/a>cites Plato in support of this thesis. \u201cBeauty is an ultimate value\u2014something that we pursue for its own sake.\u201d Scruton defines beauty as \u201ca real and universal value, one anchored in our rational nature<\/em> which has an indispensable part to play in shaping the human world<\/em>. Beauty is one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.\u201d [my emphasis]. Descartes claimed that we can infer truth via beauty while Dostoevsky believed that \u201cBeauty will save the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of which leads us to the ghastly conclusion that maybe our civilisation will be saved not by force or logic but, God help us all, by our artists. I\u2019ll leave the final word on this to Gregory Wolffe <\/a>\u201cWhereas I once believed that the decadence of the West could only be turned around through politics and intellectual dialectics, I am now convinced that authentic renewal can only emerge out of the imaginative visions of the artist and the mystic.\u201d<\/p>\n

So over to you David Hirst, Banksty and Jay-Z.<\/p>\n

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