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 | I know it's true - because I saw it on The Colbert Report - that across this nation homosexual men are involved in something called gentrification, a process by which modern housing tracts are passed over in preference for Victorian era houses after which the new owner paints them and garnishes with an English garden. Assumption numero uno is that gay men have very high artistic sensibilities. You can see this even in their clothing. No gay man has ever donned mismatched socks or worn a plaid shirt with plaid pants. Never happened. Assumption two is that if you choose to live in a old Victorian houses with baroque-like fixtures, awnings, and general folderol, you are voting with your wallet. You are saying, "Modernism, I flee thee and all your pomps and works!" Based on assumptions one and two we can know with absolute certainty that past architecture is better than present architecture. Assumption three is that good art and architecture come from a culture that values beauty. Cultures that appreciate beauty (see Balthasar) are religious cultures. Ergo, gay men are actually religious traditionalists, presumably frustrated Catholics if they aren't already. (Of course, I think everyone who isn't Catholic is a frustrated Catholic.) |
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