Those are excellent points that go further than that.
Beauty and craftsmanship for their own sake are reminders of why we want more than just survival. Look at the cars from the 50s. Look at the buildings from the gilded age. Look at the explosion of music and art and culture that accompany them.
Wheb you take enough pride in the beauty of form as well as the function of form you are striving for more than just utility and efficiency. If you remove that you remove people's desire for more than just survival.
Glad you see it too. My grandfather once told me when he saw that I had a craftsman’s spirit, “Son, if you’re going to make things, make them as if you were presenting to and being graded on them by the Greatest Creator of All, God Himself.” This alone can make you a better person and and give thee a keen eye for spotting bullshit works be they spiritual or physical with just a mere glance. Knowing the difference is half the battle. Many do not know or understand all that has been stolen from them in these times.
We used to create buildings with fucking GARGOYLES on em. We made cars with swooping FINS! We built steeples and gables and flying buttresses. We took hours to carve rounded claw feet into our furniture. This wasn't because it was useful. It wasn't because it was efficient. It was because we fucking could.
Smothering under the full weight of a demonic digital shithouse world we are so lost and so very, very far removed from where we could and should be. It’s fuk’n shameful.
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