Of course these elites continue with their quest of beauty, which now only money can buy, but which comes soaked in snake venom. Even they must eventually find it repulsive.
Here is what I wrote about the universality of beauty. And below that is the article by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira.
Excerpt from How to Acquire Style and Substance
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Reclaiming Beauty
[The] interesting thing about aesthetics is that it doesn’t require “equality” to function in any and all levels of life. The young shop girl can look beautiful (or at least aesthetically pleasing) and can borrow her ideas form the wealthy socialite to form her own pleasant look. Also, when beauty is around, even in limited quantities, everyone benefits. A beautiful statue in park is for everyone to appreciate. A beautiful lady glimpsed at in her car (in a store, a restaurant, etc.) makes people happy, including the lowly shop girl. Beauty does make the world a better place, I’m convinced.
The Grandeur of the King Dignifies the Cook
Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
An aerial view of Windsor Castle
Looking at this photo one’s first impression is that of a setting for a fairy tale. The immensity of the edifice, the marvelous variety of parts, the delicacy and strength that are affirmed in everything – all suggest that one is in the presence of something that far surpasses our day-to-day reality. This fantastic set of buildings is both the symbol and the shrine of an institution: the British Royalty.
In this symbol – like so many others of traditional England – the appearances still do not bear the mark of Protestantism, Liberalism or Socialism. What is expressed in these granite forms is still the medieval and Catholic concept of the divine origin of public power, the true majesty that should surround any political regime, and the paternal mark that should characterize it.
Paternal mark, we say. This castle does not aim to show massiveness, but talent. It is not made to intimidate, but to delight. The subject who contemplates it does not shiver at its sight; he does not feel like fleeing, but rather like entering.
And this for one simple reason: The King is a father who affably calls his subjects to himself, not an executioner who inspires fear to them.
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The Immense kitchen of Windsor
The relations between the great and the small are influenced by this ambience. The nobility of the Lord is transmitted to his servant.
Thus the immense kitchen of Windsor, at left, which is very authentically a kitchen, is indisputably a high, noble and worthy kitchen of a castle. It communicates something of the royal dignity itself to the humble menial activity of the cook and gives it a splendor that is, as it were, regal.
This is because in Christian Civilization the grandeur of the Lord does not humiliate the servant, but elevates him.
Translated from Catolicismo, August 1959
Posted November 14, 2012