Thursday, June 11, 2009

Beauty and Desecration

The Curse of Modern Obsession with Ugliness

Roger Scruton in City Journal [click to read].

"The current habit of desecrating beauty suggests that people are as aware as they ever were of the presence of sacred things. Desecration is a kind of defense against the sacred, an attempt to destroy its claims. In the presence of sacred things, our lives are judged, and to escape that judgment, we destroy the thing that seems to accuse us."

Mountain Laurel
New leaves on Mountain Laurel.

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