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Beauty is Sus to Us (Clip)

Beauty is Sus to Us (Clip)28 jul11 min

Modern German philosophers like Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have spread the "hermeneutics of suspicion" in our culture.  We have a deep suspicion of appearances and, therefore, beautiful things (the beauty of which is often seen as merely on the surface or subjective).

This is connected to the ugliness of modern buildings. It seems we are blind to beauty around us.

I think this has something about the values of society's elites.  They don't seem to believe in an edifying transcendent.  Instead, it's more about "edginess," transgression of some sort.

(From a discussion on Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education)

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