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"Beauty Will Save the World"

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 To watch the videos, go to the source ... "Beauty Will Save the World" In 'The Idiot' by Dostoevsky, Prince Myshkin utters this famous line. I will self-flagellate for using a Putin-loving Russian such as Fyodor M. once this is published, but it should serve the purpose. TRYGVE E. WIGHDAL " There seems to be something like a Gresham's law [1]  of cultural evolution according to which the oversimplified ideas will always displace the sophisticated and the vulgar and then hateful will always displace the beautiful. And yet the beautiful persists. " ~  Gregory Bateson [1]   Gresham's law  is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good." Ingrid Bergman Manufactured Ugliness We live in a soul-crushing, exceptionally ugly designed world, with the President of the United States serving as a creepy embodiment of an evil clown wearing a wicked mask—a scarecrow in the world of politics—placed on the throne to represent the depressin