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It's all very, very depressing.

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Paulo Kirk's avatar

This is an important observation. The semblance of beauty produces a beautiful soul not the other way round. I take this to mean that discernment, the attention to aesthetic choice, creates a kind of beauty, or harmony in our interior lives. It is a re-balancing of the psyche. And that enriches out lives, and begins a kind of cultural infrastructure. It mediates ideology, too. And this is exactly where kitsch and sentimentality and forced inauthentic smiley face culture robs the society of exactly this beauty. It is exactly why ‘truth’ matters. In a society as narcissistic as that of the U.S. today, this matters more than ever. The cultic spell of advanced capitalism is only broken by speaking the truth. The truth on a stage and not on a screen.

John Steppling

https://john-steppling.com/2025/01/the-discovery-of-fire/

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