Tag: Beauty
Beauty is the highest form of genius. I celebrate the pursuit of beauty, the only true defense against a world of reason and logic.
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Day 6: The Elegance of the Superficial
One is constantly besieged by the tyranny of those who claim to seek ‘depth’. They speak in hushed, reverent tones of profound truths, of hidden meanings, and of the soul’s innermost complexities. They mistake the difficult for the interesting and the obscure for the beautiful. It is an utterly tedious contemporary malady. I confess, I…
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Day 5: The Dangers of a Useful Life
One finds it quite tiresome, this contemporary fixation with being ‘useful’. The world, it seems, has become a grand factory where every man and woman must justify their existence not by their elegance, but by their efficiency. The architect is praised for his functionality, the artist for his social commentary, and the mere human being…