Beauty (2)
Yesterday evening I was walking trough town and the sky looked spectacular. A beautiful sunset. So what was it that made it beautiful?
First of all: would everybody have thought of it as being beautifull?
Well, my guess would be 95% would say it did look beautiful, and 4.9% would have said that they thought that it was NOT ugly. The other 0.1% is just trying to be different.
So, what made it look beautiful? well, it was sort of purple/pink with gray and yellow, at least that's what most people would have said, right? So does that make everything that is purple/pink with gray and yellow beautiful? I'm pretty sure if I would dye my hair in those colors the precentage of people thinking that it looks beautiful would reduce drastically.
Well, then was it the magnitude of it? The composition of it? The depth of it? The uniqueness of it? A combination of these things? You tell me.
Anyway, as promised: the cultural aspects of beauty.
Why is it that women in certain african tribes get very excited about guys showing as much of their sclera as they possibly can? Yet to do this in a western culture would be a sign of disgust and thought of as very inatractive, even scary!
Just one example of many that one could think of from the 'third world' (a term that I'm not actually supposed to use because it has got a connotation of superiority, but I guess ya'll know my heart).
And then us in the western world. This was quite interesting, last Saturday I went into town with Stuart for his art-project (see pictures), basically we walked around asking people what they thought of the picture of physical beauty that the media portraits. And every person told us that it was unreal, unfair, unnatural and yet the majority feels terribly unhappy knowing that they are not as skinny as one of those stapled on our t-shirts (get a life guys/girls if you're not obese/unhealthy ... be happy! Just be creative with your clothes and hair, show some character in the way you live... much more attractive than some bones sticking trough skin IMHO :-))
So; why are there these different ideas of beauty? I think with the whole platonic idealism theory I have given the (in my opinion) most likely option. So I would suggest beauty, in its perfect form and shape, excists, not in this world/dimension but it does. Everything we see here is a pale reflection of what could be. There seems to be a common aspect though: in every culture there is a relationship between status and beauty...
Anyways, i'm giving up! I'm terible at writing series because I can't deal with the pressure! So no more series for me... sorry guys, I live and learn!
First of all: would everybody have thought of it as being beautifull?
Well, my guess would be 95% would say it did look beautiful, and 4.9% would have said that they thought that it was NOT ugly. The other 0.1% is just trying to be different.
So, what made it look beautiful? well, it was sort of purple/pink with gray and yellow, at least that's what most people would have said, right? So does that make everything that is purple/pink with gray and yellow beautiful? I'm pretty sure if I would dye my hair in those colors the precentage of people thinking that it looks beautiful would reduce drastically.
Well, then was it the magnitude of it? The composition of it? The depth of it? The uniqueness of it? A combination of these things? You tell me.
Anyway, as promised: the cultural aspects of beauty.
Why is it that women in certain african tribes get very excited about guys showing as much of their sclera as they possibly can? Yet to do this in a western culture would be a sign of disgust and thought of as very inatractive, even scary!
Just one example of many that one could think of from the 'third world' (a term that I'm not actually supposed to use because it has got a connotation of superiority, but I guess ya'll know my heart).
And then us in the western world. This was quite interesting, last Saturday I went into town with Stuart for his art-project (see pictures), basically we walked around asking people what they thought of the picture of physical beauty that the media portraits. And every person told us that it was unreal, unfair, unnatural and yet the majority feels terribly unhappy knowing that they are not as skinny as one of those stapled on our t-shirts (get a life guys/girls if you're not obese/unhealthy ... be happy! Just be creative with your clothes and hair, show some character in the way you live... much more attractive than some bones sticking trough skin IMHO :-))
So; why are there these different ideas of beauty? I think with the whole platonic idealism theory I have given the (in my opinion) most likely option. So I would suggest beauty, in its perfect form and shape, excists, not in this world/dimension but it does. Everything we see here is a pale reflection of what could be. There seems to be a common aspect though: in every culture there is a relationship between status and beauty...
Anyways, i'm giving up! I'm terible at writing series because I can't deal with the pressure! So no more series for me... sorry guys, I live and learn!
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