Those who would kill the concept of true beauty, have, at some level, only the desire to replace the beautiful with the ugly and repugnant. This is the actual 'soul' of Nihilism, to destroy all that is right, and true, and beautiful. All that gives nourishment to our spirits and replace it with the void that saps our spirits of all meaning. They, being unable to actually create, must settle on destruction. And eventually, come to thirst for it.
To create, one must have the wisdom to contrive it, the strength to support it, AND THEN, one can add the Beauty to Adorn it.
Those who would kill the concept of true beauty, have, at some level, only the desire to replace the beautiful with the ugly and repugnant. This is the actual 'soul' of Nihilism, to destroy all that is right, and true, and beautiful. All that gives nourishment to our spirits and replace it with the void that saps our spirits of all meaning. They, being unable to actually create, must settle on destruction. And eventually, come to thirst for it.
To create, one must have the wisdom to contrive it, the strength to support it, AND THEN, one can add the Beauty to Adorn it.
Beauty exists, but don't look for it in the common or the "correct" places these days.
There are commercial artists that I support whenever I can afford to commission something.
There are comics I still read.
Movies I still watch.
Books I still enjoy.
Novels that I'm writing.
But they aren't the current, popular standards of "beauty." Which, as you point out, is very nihilistic and Marxist and post-modernist.
Their fault for listening to those pied pipers, while I enjoy what I can find.
It was Gaston, wasn't it?
Beauty is not dead. Beauty only sleeps. We can wake her up again. (And I think you have given me an idea for a few of my poems. Thank you.)
Sleeping Beauty?
And excellent! I look forward to them!
Seems to fit. We just have to hack through the thorns still.