 We build really big shoeboxes. We live in the shoeboxes. We work in them. We go to church in them. The designs are practical and cheap. They're useful. But they're not beautiful. Beauty reaches for something beyond. Beauty cares about truth. Our culture doesn't just fail to seek truth. It hates it. And it produces art and music and architecture and people who reflect that preference. So everything is ugly. And ugly on purpose.