Is Truth the Pizza of Beauty?
Are truth and beauty fundamentally the same? A skeptic asks whether all good things are the same, which leads, inevitably, to the question: is truth the pizza of beauty?
Transcript
"Do you think truth and beauty are fundamentally the same?" "No. Why? Do you think all good things are the same? Like, is kindness fundamentally the same as a skateboarding trick?" "No… I just…" "Are hugs fundamentally an open parking spot? Are the Beatles secretly pizza? Is a good night's sleep actually made of kittens?" "But the Beatles are the pizza of music. Is truth the pizza of beauty?" "Well, I can't call that false, but only because it has no meaning."
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-11-07-is-truth-the-pizza-of-beauty/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)