Aesthetics are at the heart of civilization, not incidental to it. Aesthetic sense should reinforce the values of a society and remind people of them at every glance. They are physical evidence of the refinement of a culture, as well as a message and inheritance for future generations.

This is why we need to have beautiful buildings, streets, and public artisanry as opposed to merely functional ones. Beauty is indeed an aspect of function.

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Democratic societies without strong asabiyyah stop building beautiful things

I’ve been thinking about this in historic terms; how do we incentive the creation of beautiful structures again. I think that we may have to outsource some public infrastructure construction to very wealthy individuals who want to leave a physical legacy of grandeur to the public

wow - I'm guessing you're a fan of the Muqadimmah - haven't seen that word outside of taleb twitter.