The Black Sheep LIVE: Beauty Is The Lost Art We Need to Relearn

Salomé's livestream from January 15th, 2025

Beauty was never just beauty; it was always our connection to the sacred, transcendent, inspiring, and uplifting. It's no surprise that a culture attacked by relativism and critical theory-based thinkers has divorced us from the universal, healing role beauty plays in human life. Ask the average young person about beauty and they'll likely tell you it's an "oppressive standard" or that it's entirely subjective. If that's your view of beauty, how could it be anything but an afterthought—or worse?

And yet ask that same young person what they think about the world around them and they'll likely tell you it's also oppressive, depressive, or generally negative. A person who lacks a thoughtful relationship to beauty is doomed to live in an ugly world.

There are plenty of other reasons for why people are increasingly anxious, cynical, and resentful today, but in this livestream I'm discussing the one, blatantly obvious and ugly reason that rarely gets discussed: our modern conception of beau…