Why Beauty Disappeared - Dietrich von Hildebrand’s 'Aesthetics,' A thread 🧵
1/ It’s a widespread belief that beauty is “in the eye of the beholder,” but in his book ‘Aesthetics vol. 1,’ philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand not only disproved that, but also revealed how that thinking has led to the disappearance of beauty in our world.

Love and Beauty Lost: The Romantic Cost of Gender Integration, a thread 🧵 1/ Perhaps the solution to the broken male/female dynamic isn't to bring men and women together but to separate them more. As the adage goes: “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

Heaven or Hell on Earth: The Aesthetic War of Lighting, a thread 🧵
1/ There is a reason why dystopias often resemble hospitals—cold, blue-white light—which is how our world is starting to be lit. But it wasn’t always like this. From candle-lit cathedrals to the Golden Age of Hollywood—lighting used to shape beauty, but now it bleaches it.

The Coolest Rosaries, a thread 🧵 The Langdale Rosary, the only surviving medieval Rosary from pre-Reformation England, as well as one of the only European Rosaries made of gold.

How the Decline of Cars Mirrors the Decline of America, a thread 🧵
1/ If America can be summed up in a single image, it's a car–a symbol of the freedom, romance, independence, and upward mobility that once defined this country.

Los Angeles is a Catholic city, a thread 🧵
1) Los Angeles is a Catholic city. And while everyone now thinks of Los Angeles as the ‘New Babylon’--a dark place standing for vanity, vice, and everything anti-religious–there is a reason it’s called the ‘City of Angels.’

The Patriarchy - Why We Should Live In It (And Why Women Secretly Want It) A thread🧵👇
1/12 What if I told you that we should live in a patriarchy? Not the caricature portrayed in memes or by "alpha male/red pill" influencers, but the kind that reflects natural order and provides for future generations.

How did marriage go from once depicted as a fairytale to a literal nightmare? Movies once showed "happily ever after," but now marriage is portrayed as the most horrible thing a person could endure —a slow march to divorce. Let’s talk about how this cultural shift has been the driving factor of the decline of the West. A *long* thread 🧵👇
1/ Almost every girl from a very young age dreams of finding Prince Charming, having a beautiful wedding, then a cute baby, and living happily ever after. But now, all that has changed, as marriage has been demonized and replaced with the promotion of endless hookup culture and working as a corporate slave.

THE LINK BETWEEN MODESTY AND ATHEISM: A thread 🧵👇
People tend to think that immodest dress is a new thing, however, in post-Revolutionary France, women were wearing dresses that would make us blush today. This provides an excellent case study for the relationship between immodesty and atheism, which directly parallels the crisis of modesty the West is experiencing now.

What happened when I started praying the Rosary daily, a 🧵👉 CLOSER TO JESUS: People say the Rosary is ‘praying to Mary’ but it is praying THRU Mary, and meditating on the life of Jesus. It is literally the Bible on a string, and it has given me a deeper understanding of the life of Jesus from Nativity to Passion to Resurrection.

Why is everything so ugly? A thread🧵👇
There has been a systematic persecution and removal of Beauty in the West in recent years. Why? Because real Beauty has the power to build up or destroy a society. The transcendental quality of beauty makes it a powerful linchpin to pull to hasten our societal downfall.
Beauty is a uniquely powerful force of spiritual conversion; it is one of the three transcendentals along with Truth and Goodness. Real beauty is True and Good, and therefore points to God who is the ultimate creative force and author of all beauty.