Why the Left FEARS Beauty ｜ 3⧸21⧸24
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Summary
The notion of beauty as an elevation of the human spirit was always treated as a backward and outdated notion held by self-important aristocratic aristocrats in less enlightened times. But there s a deeper method to this vile iconoclastic madness: the key to cultural revolution is to sever the continuity between the past and present.
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We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight.
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recently overhauled its art exhibits and introduced new signage
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warning that paintings of the British countryside
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landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity.
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The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past
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and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation.
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Particular peoples live in a specific place and beautiful depictions of that place
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can speak powerfully to their sense of identity and belonging.
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What's interesting is how often the left now feels compelled to warn us about the dangers
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Our progressive ruling elites have created a small, ugly, and artificial world
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and their right to fear the power that natural beauty holds to shatter that illusion.
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Like many people, I've lived most of my life as a thoroughly modern Philistine.
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As an advanced and sophisticated person, I dismissed beauty as a value
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and often saw unnecessary adornment as an ostentatious waste that hindered efficiency.
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I've been a Christian since I was young, but even in my interactions with the divine,
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I had a very Protestant understanding of sacred spaces.
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Why would anyone build a giant cathedral when the people of God could gather in a strip mall
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or a warehouse and give the rest of the money to the poor?
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The notion of beauty as an elevation of the human spirit was always treated as a backward
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and outdated notion held by self-important aristocrats in less enlightened times.
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We like to think of ourselves as highly rational, so it can be very difficult to recognize
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how critical aesthetics are to our way of being.
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If the things we see every day are beautiful, if they stir our souls and connect us to the divine,
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that keeps us grounded in a way that's hard to describe.
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Beauty confronts us and convicts us in an uncomfortable manner.
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That which is undeniably beautiful holds an intrinsic value that reminds us that natural hierarchies
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Beauty reminds us that there's a right way for things to be,
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and while we may not have yet achieved that right way of being,
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we must remain oriented towards the good and the true.
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In short, beauty cuts through our nonsense excuses and demands that we become worthy of it.
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The world that the left has created is entirely artificial
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and requires an incredible amount of abstract nonsense to maintain its illusions.
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Progressives hate the idea of hierarchy, human nature, and unchosen bonds.
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Gender, marriage, family, community, and every other aspect of human identity
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The compulsion to flatten every aspect of existence drives the left to sever the natural connections
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that define every person so they can be utterly remade.
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The individual must be isolated from his natural systems of support
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and made entirely dependent on the state if everyone is to be made truly equal.
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The best way to keep people trapped in an artificial environment
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is to deny them the knowledge that any alternative exists.
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Leftists in Western countries are tearing down statues,
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and burning down magnificent cathedrals for a reason.
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is like the defensive thrashings of a wild animal.
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Progressives reflexively strike out and mar that which is beautiful
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so it doesn't convict them in their own squalid existence.
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But there's a deeper method to this vile iconoclastic madness.
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The key to cultural revolution is to sever the continuity
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If the left can successfully bury the beauty of the past,
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then the people will have no memory of what made them great,
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and they can instead be sculpted into whatever dismal monument to mediocrity
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are all engineered to ensure that we never glimpse
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As hilarious as a trigger warning on a landscape painting may seem,
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and the threat that they pose to the current progressive order.
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Leftists have worked very hard to eliminate the works of architectural,
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artistic, and musical beauty that might stir the soul to greatness,
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Even if our entire culture is stripped of the truth of beauty,
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One reason progressives feel so compelled to drive the population into squalid cities
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is their contempt for the natural beauty that keeps rural populations firmly connected to reality.
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Whether in the Soviet Union or the United States,
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can't be controlled through the manipulation of a system on which he does not rely,
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and is too deeply rooted in the reality of nature
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to be taken in by absurd and artificial abstraction.
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Above all, progressives fear beauty because it threatens their way of life.
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The more artificial and abstract a system progressives construct
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Cultural revolutionaries instinctively attack the true and beautiful
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because they see it as an assault on the small, ugly, and plastic world
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While those in power work diligently to snuff out any instance of beauty left in our culture,
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