Keats once wrote: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, and he was quite right.
Here’s a piece from Jamie Wilson at PJMedia, and she has the right of it too:
Our exterior world isn’t harsh or ugly, not like the concrete fortresses of Brutalism or the boxy little cars of the Eastern Bloc, but neither is it beautiful. It is merely acceptable.
And beauty matters. It’s not decoration, it’s expression, a way of saying that life means something, that creation itself is worthy of reverence.
Read the whole thing. It could have been written by me — especially the parts about cars and architecture — except that her article contains no anger or cursing.
It’s a delight, and thankee to her hubby Clark for sending it to me.
I read it, and it was well written.
3 words
Sadness, Yearning, Hope
And have you noticed how ugly the paint jobs are on cars these days? They used to look like flowers or, as pointed out in the article, hard candies. Nowadays they look like mud.
socialism:
objects (cars) are things of strict utility; beauty does not add utility
Keats also wrote”“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
So many today don’t want to see or hear the truth, so they’ll never see or hear beauty, or even know what real beauty is. sigh.
Because we’re effectively communists and if commies ever built anything beautiful it was accidental. Cars, buildings, etc cannot be built without .gov interference. Public “art” is vile.
Art deco buildings and 50’s style diners.
Unique in the world, and quintessentially American.
Small town Tiki bars are pretty cool, too.