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Ed's avatar

"Truth is beauty and beauty is truth. That's all you know and all you need to know."

- John Keats

Neither objective nor subjective. Not two.

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ShieldMaiden's avatar

Hey, Mike...I once caught my late husband (before we were married, back in the early 90's) looking at a very attractive women as she passed by on the sidewalk. He was embarrassed that I noticed. But I told him: "Relax! Why shouldn't you look? I looked! And I look at beautiful men. Beauty is beauty. No reason to hide your appreciation. But now, pursuing is something else entirely!" LOL But I haven't changed my mind.

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ShieldMaiden's avatar

Fine art took a big dive in the 20th century -- away from the celebration of beauty, symmetry and representational themes into (meaningless) abstract and distorted (ugly) views. Some one said: "Art is life seen through a temperament." For over half a century I've witnessed that a lot of artistic temperaments have been coopted by despair, pop culture, 'fame' and ugliness. Well, that's valid! It is a reflection of societal ills. But, without doubt, it is time to recover what once belonged to us.

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CharlieGoy's avatar

Yeah, I think it's time for a major worldwide refocus on the positive and the beautiful which naturally moves us away from the beast system and all of its ugly appendages.

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ShieldMaiden's avatar

With all due respect for HFTT (Joel and Yerasimos) who are really 'into' Ayn Rand: I must say that AR did or tried to do a lot of damage to beauty in architecture. And other things. I used to be quite the AR fan back when I was a pre-teen, teen, and young adult (in the 70's & 80's). But even when I thought she was the big thing, it always seriously bothered me that she had no use for (and no appreciation of) Nature. And she most certainly was an atheist, which explains a few things. Personally, I think she was 'propped up' by those whom we now label controllers. JMO.

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Mike Winner's avatar

I’ve always very much appreciated Rand’s Objectivism for being a bit of a modernist take on Plato but yes, I agree it is greatly devoid of the sacred divine and very much stuck in the mental plane only which is to its detriment for sure

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CharlieGoy's avatar

Interesting... thanks!

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denise ward's avatar

Beauty and function - so nourishing. Yes true, architecture today is insipid and uninspiring. As you say, all made with rectangles. This has a psychological effect on us that we are not aware of. Must check out your latest alfacast. You and Barre always have amazing people on. This podcast ended rather abruptly - did the cat jump on the off button?

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Mike Winner's avatar

wow thanks for letting me know! The upload got messed up cutting off 4 mins. Fixed now.

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chris kinzel's avatar

stop sending me your posts. Your content is light weight slow minded and dull

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Mike Winner's avatar

Thanks for putting this here on the public record for others to weigh in on chris! And please allow this slow minded fellow to explain to you about this thing called the unsubscribe button. It was invented in the beginning of this thing called social media, but maybe your mind was too quick to catch on to that. 😉

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CharlieGoy's avatar

Pig pile! 😆 Remember those when we were kids? Oh, how I wanted to jump in, but I just laughed like hell instead!

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Angela Morris's avatar

Agreed, I wrote something similar earlier in the month.

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Crystal Allegra's avatar

My dad was an architect… there are little things that the unaware fail to do to make new builds better. But, yeah money. Most of the world just wants a roof that doesn’t leak. It can then be covered with vines and surrounded with shrubs.

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E=mc²

Godspeed

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