To be Ugly

Depiction of  the "Whore of Babylon"
From Martin Luther's translation of the Bible

To be Ugly |
Saturday – October 3, 2026

For some people it is actually the case that being ugly is a good thing, and I believe that we are prudent in understanding that beauty is not always necessary in people. You see, by being beautiful a woman, for instance, says to herself and to the world that she is good enough, and perhaps this is a good thing, but why is she good enough? Is she good enough in and of herself? Hardly, a beautiful woman is really nothing more than an extension of the social mores of the day, of the moment, which is why it is true that beauty standards tend to vary across time and culture, but this is only true for beauty standards, and perhaps we should also separate beauty standards from true beauty or core beauty.

    If a woman is beautiful today because she is naked, or almost naked, she would have been considered hideous not that long ago, and so these so-called "beauty standards" are actually seldom very objective, they're in fact highly subjective. Now I should grant that there is a certain measure of objectivity in beauty to the extent that it this beauty can be said to be capable of surviving the test of time: a beautiful building is still considered beautiful here in the 21st century, even though "beauty standards" demand that most buildings should be hideous looking and grimm and egalitarian, brutalism. Of course, beauty in humanity is quite different from beauty in materialism, but regardless of the case, beauty, true beauty, can still be said to be quite qualitative, which means that most beauty standards revolve around something different, something material and supposedly objective, but it is a mistake to approach beauty from some kind of quantitative point of view:* a beautiful woman is not beautiful because she fits each and every parameter of some calculation; a woman is beautiful because she is graceful and because she manages in her entirety to bridge the heaven and the earth. This is why fat people are generally considered hideous and even monstrous, because a fat person, particularly in the 21st century, is an expression of something quite monstrous, a process of disease and degeneration, something malignant and foul, something outrageous, and really something criminal. Yes, beauty transcends everything that is not beautiful, and people who are not yet lost, not yet completely solidified, should know this, and in fact not only should they know this, they must know it in order to be considered human, read "Ideological Indoctrination".

    Now consider again, the Whore of Babylon: is she not quite artificial, when she whores herself out? Is this true beauty, or is it perhaps a crime against beauty and therefore quite outrageous? The same observation can be made about so-called "abstract art", really political art: is this not ugliness redefined as beauty? If anything can be art, then who can be said to be the artist, the artisan? Really, in a world of egalitarian art, there can be no true artist, because everything is ugly and therefore not deserving of consideration, which means that nothing in the world is capable of momentarily transfiguring us, which was the point of sacred art to begin with; and I should add here that I am referring to "sacred art", but art, true art, is sacred in and of itself, and therefore it cannot be egalitarian, read "Qualification". Yes, it would be true to refer to art as qualified, and perhaps only the interior core of certain elect people are capable of truly appreciating true beauty and quality, while the populist masses only know who to consume outrage, which is what art and beauty has been reduced to in modernity. Meaninglessness, perhaps this is what we expect of reality, but then ugliness is still something else. Ugliness is not quite meaningless. No, ugliness is outrageous and the point of ugliness is outrage, particularly so from a political point of view. Ugliness is also quite shocking, for it works to remind us that we too must be dragged down to the pit, we too must be made to heel before the material order – before the whore of babylon. And that Whore is hideous, a crime against the natural order itself, the mother of all disease. That junkie, that fat person, they are all hideous and reminders of the profound darkness of the pit, of what must happen to us when we dwell too long on the bottom of the abyss, of what must happen to all good things in the world.

    Of course, instead of acknowledging this, most modern people and so-called "intellectuals" have decided to make everything about shallowness and emptiness. Yes, everything these days are hollow, profoundly empty and without quality, and what they, the moderns, call beauty is nothing more than another mass produced product, another artifact of the process of secularization and quantification – you wear "beauty" as a form of urban camouflage in order to not dissent and in order to conform to the shapeless mass. Really, this is the final convulsion of the primordial body, the final act in the destruction of the last vestiges of the sacred. When a woman can whore herself out in approval of the vast majority of people, then the justice of a dying child is that he did not die earlier. Yes, these are truly dark forces, and I can almost smell the sulfur. Everything good must be destroyed and replaced by something false, a counterfeit, a virtual reality, and perhaps this is what we are wittensing today when even the core institution, so-called "institution", of family is being attacked from all angles.

    I suppose too that the nihilism inherent in modernity has made it almost unavoidable that ugliness should have come to be worshipped. What else would make any sense? Let us not forget that at the end of the day egalitarianism is nothing more than a complete loss of potential, a short circuit if you will, to borrow a material analogy. Without potential, we may only dwell in the pitch darkness of the pit. You may be ugly, but this is only because you lack knowledge of beauty, true beauty, and your modern plasticity is not beautiful, it is only capable of bending the light away from the righteous path.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – October 3, 2026.

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* For more on this I must direct you to my posts: "Mechanism" and "Mechanical Procedures". They will explain this in further detail.