@20711 duşovka? Tfu.
@20711 Physiologically speaking, everything ugly weakens and oppresses human
beings. It reminds them of decline, danger, powerlessness; it actually
makes them lose strength. You can measure the effect of the ugly with a
dynamometer. Whenever human beings are depressed, they sense that
something “ugly” is nearby. Their feeling of power, their will to power,
their courage, their pride—it all falls with the ugly and rises with the
beautiful . . .
beings. It reminds them of decline, danger, powerlessness; it actually
makes them lose strength. You can measure the effect of the ugly with a
dynamometer. Whenever human beings are depressed, they sense that
something “ugly” is nearby. Their feeling of power, their will to power,
their courage, their pride—it all falls with the ugly and rises with the
beautiful . . .
@20711 Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.