Benjamin Smith

G.K. Chesterton, the ordinary man has always been a mystic https://t.co/nd76crTg8x

And there’s a lot of positive evidence. It’s not that there’s some metaphysical concept of beauty that rules the world — beauty is a human experience. It’s something that has to do with how humans react to the world and perceive the world. And it’s notoriously thought to be subjective, but it’s not entirely subjective. There’s a very rich history o... See more

It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with uni

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Shouldn't it be easier than ever before to make beautiful structures? Why isn't it the default? Why can't we seem to? It is far easier to move the earth than it was 200 years ago, yet the end result gives a feeling that nobody is really trying their best. https://t.co/OZwjXjI29T