That’s what Dostoevsky wrote in his novel The Idiot. Yet we live in times where beauty is shunned.
Not only is our urban architecture trim and austere, but our music and much of our art lacks vibrancy.
How do we go about eliminating this drive toward ugliness? Here’s more from the Academy of Ideas.
Are we living in an age of civilizational collapse? Academy of Ideas examines what led past civilizations to fall, in order to determine whether ours is in danger.
Historians and social scientists dig deep into external causes, such as acts of god, for the demise of civilizations. But when this path fails to adequately determine the reasons for collapse, as it does more often than not, they turn to internal turmoil for solutions. Here’s the report.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any civil or religious authority is the doctrine of despotism. Here, learn how civil disobedience safeguards our freedoms and prevents tyranny. More from the Academy of Ideas.
Remember, too, engaging in civil disobedience doesn’t necessarily mean you have to end up in jail. You can try baby steps, such as joining Canada’s Freedom Convoy by issuing honks to the Globalist fascists like Pierre Trudeau who need to be taught a lesson.
Here, Austria’s Hoch Tirol performs, led by Horst Konrader, the mastermind behind the bicycle horns. Post it on your favored social media outfit and dedicate it to Pierre or whichever despot you wish, say Emmanuel Macron or Joe Biden, Jacinda Ardern or Scott Morrison. The choice is all yours!
Incessant lies in our world have steered us so far away from normal society, according to the Academy of Ideas. This misinformation not only affects a few, but infiltrates and infects every corner of society, transforming reality into fiction. In Nazi Germany, it was the idea of a superior race and unclean people. In the Soviet Union, it was that all communism could work and all would be made equal.
“Does this sound familiar to you guys,” says PragerU’s Amala Ekpunobi. “It’s a little scary to hear things of this reference and to think about how it’s not unique to these areas. It’s not unique to the Soviet Union, it’s not unique to Nazi Germany. This is part of the human condition.” In the following edition of PragerU, Ekpunobi warns of the parallels in the Academy of Ideas video and what’s happening today, and the looming consequences we face.
