The world will not end only by the authoritarianism inherent in our race, by the denial of ancient values, by the lack of commitment to the next generations and by the ability to persecute and kill our fellowmen...

It will crumble from the inside out, killing everyone from the soul to the body and the denial of beauty. The devaluation and denial of the beautiful will kill not only aesthetics, architecture, painting, sculptures, the approximation of the individual to what transcends...

and touches everyone in all corners of the world.

Kill the beauty that brings us closer to something much bigger and more valuable than human pain and its mortal characteristics, it will end up killing the intellect, the soul, the creativity and the transcendental...

that take us away from everything that we want to escape in the day to day of our cold and nebulous mortality...

The ability to express the beautiful shows how we could aim for something other than pure practical and dull materialism, the pure ability to build by building or to destroy by destroying.

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The ancients who tried to express the beauty of nature, women, peace, people, nation, human relationships, mortality and immortality, the simple and magnificent "exist".

Today beauty is not expressed. The deconstruction of the beautiful, of the landscapes is valued...

of moral, spiritual and family virtues, all in search of doing for the sake of doing, of pleasure for pleasure, of the momentary for the inexpressive, and of the inexpressive for the absolute nothing that takes us nowhere.

The contempt for beauty that has always brought us closer to something greater and transcendental will make us have to run like the crazy man of Nietzsche's work...

"They didn't hear about that crazy man who in the middle of the morning lit a lantern and ran to the market, and started screaming incessantly "Where is [...] And when everyone laughs, they'll say: we killed him, you and me"

Man's search for beauty is our greatest calling since we stopped aiming only for survival and expanded our horizons in search of the new, the lovely and the divine.

If you are interested in the importance of beauty:

"Why Beauty Matters - Roger Scruton"

the book quoted by Nietzsche is "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" and there is a book by Sir Roger Scruton with the same name as the documentary.

this little text was translated from portuguese, so i apologize for any mistake and i am warning you that i will be posting in english from now on

#aesthetic #traditionalart