Beauty is Sus to Us (Clip)

Modern German philosophers like Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have spread the "hermeneutics of suspicion" in our culture.  We have a deep suspicion of appearances and, therefore, beautiful things (the beauty of which is often seen as merely on the surface or subjective).     This is connected to the ugliness of modern buildings. It seems we are blind to beauty around us.     I think this has something about the values of society's elites.  They don't seem to believe in an edifying transcendent.  Instead, it's more about "edginess," transgression of some sort.   (From a discussion on Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education)   Thank you for watching!  Please see below for the full conversation:   The full video episode: https://youtu.be/WsujhE2muTQ   Audio episode: https://benomtad.podbean.com/e/odysseus-nausicaa-beauty-s-education/?token=9ad8205849556b9910a95e0b5885fc5a   The Podcast Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIlJwXEK2vqfEOVgfclRgZNXO4boyP3T   The Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMIszqVpagDQ   The Odyssey’s translations we used: https://a.co/d/04Ud8j0d https://a.co/d/0dd7Svhh   For more in this podcast, please go to: Podbean: https://benomtad.podbean.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863 YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ X: https://x.com/Benomtad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benomtad   About our guest: Ian Reclusado offers guidance services for those interested in facing and befriending their inner monsters:  https://thekindknife.substack.com/p/guidance-services   I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.   Sea Short Photo by Henrique Hanemann on Unsplash Photo of Nausicaa by Leighton (1878), courtesy of picryl