Arthur Brooks

Now, why is that?

Because stuff that goes on in the left hemisphere of the brain never prioritizes beauty.

Beauty is a right hemispheric experience.

It's when people see a beautiful sunset, sometimes they'll cry.

When people hear a

I work at music, you know, people listen to Bach B minor mass and it's like, they, they weep.

Why?

And, and they can't, they can't experience.

As a matter of fact, anytime that you become emotional, um, and you can't quite explain it, it means you're having a right hemispheric experience, something that moves you weirdly.

Some people, when they talk about religion, they get really choked up.

Some people, when they listen to music, they get really choked up.

It's really interesting how this works.

But those are right hemispheric experiences.

And disproportionately, that's when it comes to beauty.

So if we have a society that's entirely left hemispheric, that's technocratic, that's complicated and not complex, it's not going to be beautiful.

And that's exactly what we find.

There's compelling evidence that music is less objectively beautiful than it was in the past.

Newer music is less objectively beautiful than it was in the past.

I can't really judge that, but this is what we pay musicologists to do or something.

um that moral beauty is harder and harder to find moral beauty is just kindness toward others for no apparent reason you find very little of that on x you know you find very little of that online right um that that natural beauty is harder to find when you're when you're never in nature