Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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The Mechanics of Beauty

The Mechanics of Beauty

Nature disguises its ugliness through beauty

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Tourists, described by a number of notable authors as the scum of the earth, are nearly always in pursuit of the pleasant and beautiful. This is a wretched state for the human soul to occupy since it means being in deep denial of all those things that are not beautiful. So the tourist will turn a blind eye to the homeless, the ghettos and the like while…

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