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Jiang adds that a narrow definition of success and degraded aesthetic standards belong on the same decline ledger.
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Aesthetics
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Jiang accepts aesthetic transcendence in a museum as another form of happiness and compresses it under the category of beauty.
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"a narrow definition of success yes uh yes degradation in the aesthetic standards okay great so i'm convinced we are totally screwed okay all..."
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"...In. An. Museum. I. Can. Experience. Kind. Of. Transcendental. And. Mysterious. Aesthetic. Experience. Yeah."
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"Beauty. Right. When. Consider. Something. Beautiful. You. Are. Very. Happy. Okay. So. Yeah. We. On. Going. Okay. But. You. Get. That. Sense. Of. What...."
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"...Okay? What these planters carried in their mind's eye was certain aesthetic, what one might call a visual codification of modern world production and..."
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"...from ourselves precisely what this will, under the direction of the aesthetic ideal, expresses, which is hatred of anything human, animal, or material, abhorrence..."
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"...is really sought after by the Egyptians for its spiritual and aesthetic qualities. And over here, because of the trade with Afghanistan. Afghanistan then..."
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