Rejecting Ugliness is your Moral Duty

Ugliness = Evil

The modern world is failing because the modern world is ugly.

I'm not even talking about the gray, soulless buildings that surround us, nor about the dead streets peppered with trash and spent heroin needles, nor about the gray, polluted skies, visible only behind a web of distorted power lines, although those things clearly play a part in the creation of this deadly, terrible zeitgeist.

Big cities smell like pollution, gasoline, and decay. Not only literally, but metaphorically too. You feel in the air a sort of anticipation, a constant wait for the one spark that will finally blow it all up.

A walk around even the “fancy” parts of a modern town is very often all it takes to fill your mind with discomfort.

There is something mystical and divine about walking through an undisturbed forest. You feel an underlying sense of order, even in the deepest wilderness. Every shade, every leaf, every blade of grass is exactly where it should.

Your very presence is natural there. You walk where you should walk, and you breathe the correct kind of air.

Modern cities are a ticking time bomb. Every step you take there is unnatural, dangerous, plain wrong. The air you breathe poisons you, and the only sounds you hear are man made.

The smells that fill the air are toxic and numb your mind. There is no shade of green to be seen, for even those misplaced efforts at bringing some nature to the streets that a million people drive by every day are useless, and end up presenting an even more depressing picture of forced greenery covered in grayish dust. 

Cities are a boiling pot of inhuman activity. I don’t believe Sodom and Gomorrah ever got this far, and I can thus only imagine how big the impending fall will be. 

New York City deserves to go down in a great ball of cleansing fire, and so does every other major city in the world. There is no God amongst these soulless ruins.

We kicked Him out a long time ago and thought we could build something better without Him.

Have you ever gone out in a big city? I imagine that is what hell must look like. People possessed by evil spirits, escaping from a life they absolutely hate and seeking to find in pleasure an exit of at least a few moments.

All of this you can observe: when you walk outside and see no sky, when you live deafened by the whirring sounds of machinery, when you see millions of empty eyes in the people you cross paths with, know that it is but a warning that collapse is coming.

We cannot destroy and build on top of God’s works and expect Him to remain there.

But the real ugliness of this world comes from the ugliness of people. And the ugliness of people simply reflects a deeper kind of ugliness, one of the soul.

Rejection of the divine has made men into nothing more than creatures in perpetual pursuit of numbing pleasure and entertainment. 

When there's nothing greater for which to live, when humans are considered an accident of biology and glorified sacks of meat, what motivation is there to tend to your life carefully, and to seek in your endeavors to showcase and project beauty into the world?

There is no beauty without God. If we are to reclaim what once was a world of light, it must start with us connecting again with the eternal, and the divine. Then, only then, will we find in ourselves the strength needed to reject the grotesque temptations of modernity, and fight this Holy war against ugliness.

Only then will we realize the value of beauty, and seek to sculpt our lives into monuments of adoration to our Creator.

Physical fitness is the start of this pursuit, and what we should be seeking.

Not comically bastardized and oversexualized surgical mutations of the flesh, but rather the ultimate potential of our physicality.

There is a direct connection with God when we exist as we should, when we utilize every fiber, every bone, every ounce of physical strength. When we fight, when we lift, run, jump, throw, sprint.

The human body can be the most beautiful monument ever made. Or it can be the most disgusting projection of the worst aspects of a human being.

We choose the former. Not only because aestheticism and beauty are clear reflections of God’s works on this earth, but rather because it is your duty to bring good into the world instead of participating in the destruction of beauty.

It’s your responsibility to make of your life a source of inspiration, to allow others to see in you the magnificent potential of a human life. It is your duty to make of yourself and your life a work of art, one that leads away from hell and towards higher ideals.