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Right-wing Christians ignore the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount because these eight Beatitudes can cause cognitive dissonance and are incompatible with their conservative worldview. The Beatitudes hit home and cause them to feel very uncomfortable.

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Still Life with Skull and Candlestick

Paul Cézanne, 1866

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Fuck me so violently that you scare yourself.

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The ironic thing is that Boromir was right, one does not simply just walk into Mordor. You need to defeat a giant spider first. But then after that, you do just walk in, yes. 

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- Unknown

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(by nattesferd)

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@iamcaseypurshouse

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I just saw you answer an anonymous question about FLW, and I work at an American art museum where we disassembled an entire FLW house and relocated it (from New Jersey to Arkansas) for preservation reasons. What's your opinion on moving someone's work to a different location? The specific house I'm talking about is the Bachman-Wilson House, just to give some background.

I think is the last option when a structure with historical value is about to be lost.

In my opinion, and knowing the specifics of this project, the value, historical and academic, of saving the structure makes it worthwhile. The Usonian houses by FLW were designed with the vision of belonging to all of America, not so site specific like say Fallingwater or the Guggenheim Museum, and as such I can justify in my mind it being moved as acceptable. As a side note, that is not the only Usonian house that has been relocated and made available for the public to experience. 

PS I still don’t feel its right that something like the Temple of Dendur was moved from Egypt to The MET.

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