I was long-form interviewed by Ryan Faulkner-Hogg of Atlas Geographica on this range of topics:: Introduction: 00:00 Aesthetics: 03:04 Do You Practice Art? 08:33 Modern “analytic” art, Modern “pessimist/expressionist” art, & Postmodern “deconstructive” art 10:24 Duchamp’s urinal 32:25 Objectivism v. Subjectivism: 39:30 BLM (benevolent v. Trojan Horse versions) & Marxism: 52:57 Hicks’s Formative Years: 1:00:00 Virtue Of Learning Arts/Philosophy 1:04:25 Genuine educators v. mind-saboteurs 1:07:30 Left v. Right Indoctrination: 1:11:47 Is far Left or far Right more dangerous now? 1:19:30 Hicks’s Personal Religious Beliefs & Nietzsche’s Influence: 1:21:00.
Works discussed:
This Steve Jobs quotation: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
Stephen Hicks, “Why Art Became Ugly.”
The full interview published on YouTube.
