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March 1, 2016

All that is necessary for ugliness to prosper is for artists to reject beauty.

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Lenin abjured music, to which he was sensitive, because it made him feel well-disposed to the people around him, and he thought it would be necessary to kill so many of them.
Theodor Adorno said that there could be no more poetry after Auschwitz. Our view of the world has become so politicized that we think that the unembarrassed celebration of beauty is a sign of insensibility to suffering and that exclusively to focus on the world’s deformations, its horrors, is in itself a sign of compassion. Beauty and Ugliness by Theodore Dalrymple

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 1, 2016 9:47 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Perhaps Theodore Dalrymple should form a committee, and adjudicate the better art from the degenerate. That would fix many wagons.

Posted by: Casey Klahn [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 1, 2016 11:26 AM

That rings some unpleasant bells far away, Casey.

Posted by: pbird [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 2, 2016 3:49 PM

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