Nowhere in the culture is this inversion of values more apparent than in the spreading cultural antipathy towards aesthetics and ideals of virtue and beauty.
Beauty is perfection. Beauty represents goodness and transcendence. Beauty elevates the human race. Beauty is inspiration and pleasure. Humans are evolutionarily programmed to recognize, appreciate, and seek out beauty, and to create works of incredible beauty in music, literature, and visual arts. Above all, beauty is truth. Preferences exist, but true beauty is undeniable. One might prefer the clanging of pots and pans, but no one can deny the beautiful mastery of Albinoni’s Adagio in G minor; similarly one might claim to prefer the aesthetics of a urine splattered cross in an art installation but that individual can never deny the perfection of the Sistine Chapel.
Nonetheless, we are encouraged to ignore our senses, and to embrace the hideous in every form. The urine-stained cross is now high art; the cacophony of banging pots and pans we are supposed to consider the magnum opus of the finest musical minds. Put simply, this is the complete uglification of the culture.
This denigration of the beautiful is nothing more than an effort to subvert society, brainwashing individuals into believing that the denial of concrete realities is acceptable, even necessary if the denial ultimately results in a “better” and more radically egalitarian society.
Subversion as it relates to accretive cultural destruction is best defined by Yuri Bezmenov, a Soviet defector who worked as a propagandist during the 60s. According to Bezmenov, subversion is the gradual process by which an enemy undertakes measures to change the perception of every individual within a target country. Perception is altered so severely through the constant use of various forms of propaganda that individuals are rendered unable to come to sensible conclusions about anything and become unwilling to fight for their very existence. The target society becomes a sitting duck for the enemy. Subversion succeeds in destruction by undoing logic and lowering defenses; it succeeds by twisting the mind so much that it becomes unable to discern the truth from a lie.
To observe the assault on beauty, one need look no further than any of the various liberal pop culture e-rags that proliferate in all corners of the internet. The so-called “body-positivity” movement (also known as HAES, or “Health at Every Size”), exhorting us to close our eyes to the ugliness of obesity to the cry of “all bodies are beautiful!” and to embrace it as “real beauty.”
We see this in the efforts to do away with Barbie and to replace it with other grotesqueries that are said to represent “beauty across various spectra.” It can be seen as comic book heroes at peak physical perfection redrawn to reflect the average and the typical. Women are discouraged from attempting to achieve a feminine ideal of beauty and are instead encouraged to put as little effort into their looks as is possible and to adopt “gender neutral” fashion. Graffiti is pushed upon us as art, and we see the veneration of Banksy, the graffiti artist whose “work” you can obtain as prints from any online art retailer.
There is, furthermore, the strange trend of photographing the abandoned flotsam and jetsam of American life to show the “haunting beauty” of these sites has become all the rage on electronic compost sites like Buzzfeed.
The process of demoralization continues unhindered because of a lack of standards combined with a deathly fear of passing judgment on absolutely anyone or anything, even if the person is acting in the basest manner, and even if the thing is completely lacking in virtue or value. Why? Because we are taught, almost from birth, that everything is the same, and that everyone is equal: to be discriminating is to deny the inherent equality in all things and all people. We are taught to ignore that the pursuit of the beautiful and the avoidance of the ugly is an evolutionary survival mechanism that enables the preservation of the species. We are forced to internalize a lie.
Therefore, to say that obesity is bad because it causes severe health complications, and that obese people are disgusting eyesores is a thoughtcrime of the highest order. That would be to imply that the fat are not the equals of the fit. We should think that Melissa McCarthy is as beautiful as Scarlett Johansson.
We cannot say that gender neutral fashion is bunk, and that a woman in a flawlessly tailored dress looks better than some androgyne in a shapeless jumpsuit. We cannot say that Banksy is a hack but Botticelli is a genius, because to juxtapose the bankruptcy of one and the beauty of the other, to recognize the objective truth of the relative value of each contribution to the artistic cannon, is to immediately make a statement about the inferiority of the former.
This is not petty. Demoralization has a profound spiritual impact on society. Interacting with the average lobotomized, zombiefied leftist makes this clear. Nowadays, people are so used to being told what they believe that their minds lack vigor and are useless for critical thought. This general mental lassitude makes people unable to resist lies and the imposition of inverted values. It makes them likely to accept any harebrained assertion, truth or reality notwithstanding. It creates a generation of people without strong beliefs about anything, who will regard the downfall of their civilization with little more than a shrug and a yawn. This is the endgame of subversion: self-destruction through inertia.
Beauty is but another casualty in this war.
Dare to be square.
You can start by paying attention to style in how you dress. Sven Raphael Schneider at Gentleman’s Gazette is a good place to start:
http://www.gentlemansgazette.com/101-things-that-change-when-you-dress-up/
Part of the problem may be a lack of confidence. Hipsters and subversives always undermine confidence. Simply learning how to dress in a classic way can boost confidence and make a statement. Not saying everyone needs this but it can help.
It’s really amazing to me how little people care about what they wear. It’s common to see people around here dressed in their pajamas while out and about. Many others look like they were dressed by a blind infant. Their clothing doesn’t fit, doesn’t match and serves no purpose other than pure utility. I’ve never understood this. They just don’t care or what is it? How can they not see how awful they look? I look at pictures of the way normal people dressed 50 or 100 years ago and the differences are astounding.
Beauty isn’t democratic. It isn’t elitist either, because you can’t make it with money or power. It’s offensive on both counts.
Beauty is divine, from any perspective, because it represents order and harmony. Beauty can occur spontaneously but are helped by creating and maintaining order and harmony.
Civilization is very difficult to create and easy to destroy. The paradox is that urbanization, which is a product of civilization, also creates an environment where the disgust reaction, necessary for health and beauty, is muted. Close proximity of unrelated people allows art, music, literature, philosophy, and even athletics, but it also creates the problems of filth, sexual degeneracy, and predatory social competition.
In the end, the Soviet system prevailed, a monster whose levers no man works any more – but now work themselves demonically. The shadow of the brilliance of this soft-power attack is the shadow of a crocodile.
”We are taught to ignore that the pursuit of the beautiful and the avoidance of the ugly is an evolutionary survival mechanism that enables the preservation of the species. ”
Another scientific paper on the importance of beauty and its signification of quality:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002106
I just found this wonderful essay. If people from 50 years ago visited our current era they would be absolutely horrified at how ugly people look…the morbid obesity, the grotesque tattoos, the frumpy clothes, the lack of effort grooming and looking attractive. Yet most people today think this is normal. They are not even aware anything changed.