>Of course, with sort-of-a-war on and an overall stinky economy that
>has gotten quite up-close and personal in recent years, I've been
>increasingly disinclined to lambaste US aesthetic deficiencies
>(however much they deserve it) and have been more focused on
>white-knuckle issues ranging from neo-fascism to neo-medievalism.
Don't you think they're related? The ugliness is a pretty direct byproduct of profit maximization and disregard for the environment (aesthetic & natural). Has American Protestantism ever produced anything as beautiful as Bach, or any random church in Florence?
Doug