Michael Pollan talks about American gardeners (including himself) being unable to bring themselves to cultivate beauty, or to see that as their purpose. Instead, he says they cultivate virtue. Sometimes I wonder if American liberals also suffer from this affliction, except instead of seeking virtue at the expense of beauty, they seek it to the detriment of functionality. It doesn’t matter if this works, only that it’s right. And maybe American conservatives do this too.
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Virtue, Beauty, and Function
