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Aaa15-004 | Uglification As Control: The Assault on Beauty | |||||||
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These are the three things humans desire. Beauty is generally within
our reach. Wealth and power must be worked for but are achievable in
our great Western civilization. And these are precisely the things that
socialist and Marxist movements, or indeed any ideology that seeks
control over others, work to destroy. Its not that they hate the good
and the beautiful so much as that the desire to dominate is more
powerful. In The Lord of the Rings, Sauron and Saruman knew that
domination of others is easiest when people are hungry, diminished, and
surrounded by the drab and the ugly....
We saw the same things in the old Soviet Union. Socialist realism, with its austere lines and solid colors, replaced real art with propaganda posters praising the USSR and the worker. Beautiful, graceful cathedrals and exotic Russian onion domes were replaced by brutalist concrete blocks. | |||||||
| Article: | https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2026/04/13/uglification-as-control-the-assault-on-beauty-n4951754 | |||||||
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