I keep mentioning this video because it's just so good, but Roger Scruton argued that the world has turned selfish and with it we've lost beauty, which in turns means life has lost its meaning. It's a powerful, profound view and one that I can't shake off my head ever since watching it.
> Our language, our music and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centered, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives.
> One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is “me.”
> My profits, my desires, my pleasures.
> And art has nothing to say in response to this except, “Yeah, go for it!”
> I think we are losing beauty and with it there is the danger that we will lose the meaning of life.
> Our language, our music and our manners are increasingly raucous, self-centered, and offensive, as though beauty and good taste have no real place in our lives. > One word is written large on all these ugly things, and that word is “me.” > My profits, my desires, my pleasures. > And art has nothing to say in response to this except, “Yeah, go for it!” > I think we are losing beauty and with it there is the danger that we will lose the meaning of life.
https://vimeo.com/128428182
https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/roger-scruton-w...
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