Post modernity (Beauty)  The undercurrent is to deconstruct reality and to deny anything other than a personal reality and to reject realism,.   Thus we destroy beauty. The elite give us a "persuasive theory" to understand the world. Read the brief book "the Painted Word" by Thomas Wolfe to see how he describes this perversion of beauty.

"I believe that it (Beauty) is important for the health of culture, and in that I include what can be called the salvation or human flourishing in all dimensions of life of those who in various ways make and are shaped by culture (all of us), that we should be able to hold some positive relation, yet without reducing one to another, the three central dimensions of human being: its formation by truth, goodness and beauty. Without a measure of integration of our knowledge, ethics and experience of beauty we are not fully what we might be."

Colin Gunton, The One, the Three and the Many, 1993...page 117