To Plato, a perfect society is one that is devoid of art. He first critiques the usage of storytellers and false stories saying that “we carelessly allow the children to hear any old stories… that are for the most part opposite to the ones we think they should hold when they are grown up,” and …show more content…
The Sex Pistols do this with their music. It is not pretty, the vocals are not pleasing to the ears and the instruments are not expertly played, but the message is able to ring loud and clear. Scarry acknowledges that beauty is blinding but finds strength in that beauty to expose the message hidden there. Plato is more skeptical of this and the Sex Pistol’s appear to prove his point. God Save the Queen is not devoid of beauty, though it is highly subjective to think of it as beautiful, and thus the message about Britain’s “fascist regime” is clearly witnessed (). In this regards, politics devoid of pbeauty manages to reach a large crowd without relying on false