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Ep. 104: The Vatican With Mouse Ears

Young Heretics

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The Ugliness of Art in the Culture Wars

Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty. When somebody shows you something unattractive a for the sake of conveying profound truths to you, then he's making beautiful art. If it doesn't do that, then it's just ugliness. The other passage to think about, which i've read to you already, is from plato's republic. And i believe the name of the gy is leontius, who is walking past. He felt it was wrong to look, but he wanted to. It's one of my favorite paradoxes to contemplate, becase i think it tells us so much about some of the thngs that both the right and the left can

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