 So when you look at the ancients across all civilizations, they regard truth, the reason, good, and beauty as the fundamental building blocks of their society. Notice beauty is up there. And the truest sense of beauty is the sacred. And as our culture becomes more antithetical and polarized, you know, I just reminded that we've all been here before. Every empire falls from the inside out, where the men become spoiled from the fruits of their fathers, and that same toxicity ventriculates onto the society's creative class, and the artist transitions from the preserver of truth to the spreader of vanity. When masculinity is not yielded properly in the arts, it is shoved underground to fester.