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"That’s why the postwar West abandoned beauty in favor of irony, worship in favor of mockery, and heroism in favor of cynicism."
So true. This shift had not come into focus for me before 2020 when quite a few unprecedented absurdities shook the scales off my eyes. But yeah, look at 20th century modernist-nihilist bauhaus architecture as another example, that departed from 19th century Christian beaux-arts entirely.
"That’s why the postwar West abandoned beauty in favor of irony, worship in favor of mockery, and heroism in favor of cynicism."
So true. This shift had not come into focus for me before 2020 when quite a few unprecedented absurdities shook the scales off my eyes. But yeah, look at 20th century modernist-nihilist bauhaus architecture as another example, that departed from 19th century Christian beaux-arts entirely.