This from the CHAIN call for work on public forms:

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

–John Dewey, Art as Experience

More denigration of ritual (and usually female) beautification practice disguised as pious liberal conservatism (?!).

The beauty parlor of civilization?

Why not the LOCKER ROOM?

or the proctologist’s office?

Or any other metaphor.

Dewey-san, the world would probably have suffered immeasurably without your contributions to pedagogical theory, but this metaphor doesn’t work for me.